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Your ISP's customer service: Just ok is the best you'll get; Many stink

Your ISP's customer service: Just ok is the best you'll get; Many stinkThis sound accurateBased on my experience, what has made home ISP's so ubiquitous is that they keep the price point at a level that the masses can afford it. I remember the early days of broadband, when...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Product marketing, Internet Service Provider, customer service, ok-I

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Get A Clue, Google: Your EULA Policies Stink!

Get A Clue, Google: Your EULA Policies Stink!If I didn't read this article, I wouldn't know this fact.And so would a lot of people who is going to use the browser. I think the press should push it harder on this.I'm surprised that Microsoft doesn't exploit morethat obvious Achilles' heel...

Tags: EULA, Google Inc., Stink

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Why does Safari stink?

Why does Safari stink?Safari on iPhone is even worseSafari on a Mac should work at least as well as Firefox. but on the iPhone it crashes regularly or locks up the iPhone. And it appears Apple's licensing is designed to preclude any competition:"Apple's software requirements for the device are too...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Channel management, Web technology, KHTML, Apple Safari, Safari stink, stink, Web, Web browser, Web site

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?

How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?Zombies?"Over the years Apple users are brainwashed into zombies that will take anything Apple give them."Hmmmm...Really? Just because they're using the best alternative OS available? I beg to differ. IMHO, there are far more 'Windows'-zombies out there , and just now (with...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, SECURITY, stink, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Additional Resources

Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist

Maybe MS needs myLife instead of focusing on cloud everything.I've been a Windows user since Windows 1.0 on MS-DOS. I used Multiplan and Word with a mouse before Windows even existed. Over the years I've purchased so many copies of MS Office, OS upgrades, mice, keyboards, joysticks, development environments (MASM,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

NPD: The subscription model bucks economy

The economy may stink, but consumers are clinging to their entertainment and mobile subscriptions. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Mobile, Economy, Subscription, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...

Dangerous generalisationsNEWCASTLE UK - While I might agree with your argument in the special case of WSJ your logic breaks down for newspapers in general. The WSJ is a broadsheet for a very small sector,the Financial World, as opposed to The Times or The SUN where the aim is the...

Tags: Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post Co., Google Inc., music

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

GNOME delays 3.0 release

normal people use kde anywaygnome should never have existed at all, it's just a waste of developers time.they should have join XFCE and KDE projects.KDE 4.3 ....Just plain stinks ... not ready for prime time.Me, I prefer 3.5.10 ...kde 4.3. doesn't stinkyou are just spoiled by the extremly high standards...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GNOME, KDE, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Update on Chinese wallboard with a side order of sulphur

buy more China products!Hey China rocks, I love 'made in China'!!!Bring it home to China!BUY CHINA productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.BUY C H I N A productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.Good griefThe...

Tags: Quality, American-made

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

(Philips Tapster--photos)

more information please ...The following introductory statement is lacking the beef: [i]"... the product will never set foot on a retail shelf."[/i]WHY will it never appear on the retail shelf?What is it, and why should I want it?Even cycling through the photographs, each with a little info about...

Tags: Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Tapster, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.

Add another choiceHarry, you need to add another choice on your survey."If the climate [b]IS[/b] warming, it is part of a natural cycle and has very little to do with mankind's actions, and there is very little that we can do to affect it."another choice being added--Harry FullerFuller, why the...

Tags: launch-pad, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)

No wonder they're successfulThey have a process, they watch actual humans use the product, and accept feedback.RE: SharePoint: The team that makes the donutsAs a long time SharePoint consultant my impression is that the SharePoint team is totally out of touch with enterprise customers. SharePoint 2010 is the same old...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, SharePoint 2010, team, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

How would you fix the browser ballot for European Windows users?

Kill off Opera, or MS should pull out of Europe cause they can afford toMicrosoft should shut down all offices in the EU, pull out of the market entirely, and tell the EU to bugger off.Perhaps the commission will realize they were wrong.Seriously, over a browser, and the order of...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, ballot, ballot screen, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years

In other words...This only confirms what we have been saying for sometime now.Desktop Linux lags behinds Windows And Mac for these facts alone, but the biggest one is mainstream application software compatibility which so far, were you to look at system requirements would only support Windows and Mac... There are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Netgear slammed for doing the right thing

So Welte is a 30-something who thinks his $hit doesn't stink...big deal.Wow..."Harald Welte has more power than I do, power he has earned over many years with good works."Power? Is that something that makes him special? I doubt it. Is power something that impresses you Dana? I feel sorry for...

Tags: Chipsets, Routers & switches, Semiconductors, Network technology, Operating systems, Netgear Inc., open source, Linux, router, GPL, chipset, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Canada scandal illustrates perils of health IT stimulus

I love it... you do a story that involves tech, and nobody says anythingPeople just like to complain. If this was a Health Reform article, you would have people screaming and crying all over TalkBackFUDDisappointing Dana, I would have thought you were above this type of FUD.RE: Canada scandal illustrates...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health-IT, stimulus

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Verizon slams AT&T in new TV ad; '5X coverage'

RealityYes, Verizon has a larger 3G coverage area. However, this DOES NOT mean you won't get coverage from AT&T in those areas. It just means you get slower speeds. The average joe doesn't get that. If the "average Joe" is using an iPhone 3G/S...trust me...they get...

Tags: Cellular phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., CDMA, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?

MP3 = Lo-fi , CDs for me!MP3s offer inferior, compressed, lo-fi, music. People who only listen to MP3s have no idea of what music sounds like.I buy CDs, and play them on a stereo system with nice speakers.Of course, CDs can also be ripped into a lossless format, for music...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, CD, MP3, disc

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

HP silent on Core i7-based Elite Pavilion PC problems

Not surprised.Over the last couple of years both HP's and Dell's quality control has virtually fallen off of a cliff. Acer and Gateway never pretended to have any QC, so I guess they don't have any lower to fall.For a new PC, I would only consider a Lenovo system, an...

Tags: Desktops, Elite Pavilion PC problem, Hewlett-Packard Co., Elite Pavilion PC, Elite Pavilion, Core i7, PC, Lenovo Group Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...

Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03