Microsoft Headed to NYC
December 8th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Google Chrome under attack by critics. Operation payback cripples MasterCard site. Wikileaks cannot be stopped say the experts. Will Nokia jump to Android? Let’s hope so. No Windows 7 slates by year end. Meanwhile MSFT get huge government contract. Japan misses Venus with rocket. Bad math? Holiday shopping through the roof according to Comscore. NYC getting MSFT store.
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Google Versus Amazon
December 7th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Google does a demo and shows Chrome OS plus the new Android OS and other items. The company is also in a battle with Amazon over book sales. 4Chan goes after the Swiss bank and others who attack the Wikileaks folks. AT&T still the worst carrier after one day. Cityville now on Facebook. IE9 supposed to stop tracking. Oh really? Japan floating around Venus. Twitter worm using Goo.gl. And Verizon thinks it can use LTE for home Internet service? Har.
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Free Money!!
December 6th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Google finally selling all those books it has been scanning. Two new phones from Google including the Nexus S. Whatever happened to the Nexus 2? Facebook on 60 Minutes to promote, uh, advertising? Apple to hire hot designer for new campus. Columbia backs off on anti-Wikileaks attitude. AT&T is the worst says consumer Reports. Samsung tablet news. IBM giving it away. HP’s new University. Lose you job over offshoring? Get money! Tech deals will continue forever. Tumblr blows up, for a day.
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Ireland May Lose HP
November 22nd, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Netflix streaming only service in USA for $7.99. Novell goes private and sells 882 patents to Microsoft. New special newspaper for the iPad coming from News Corp. iPad doing nothing in the Enterprise. Secret spy satellite launched. Facebook promoted as homepage. Thoughts on the Kindle. Donkey Kong Country a winner. HP thinking about moving out of Ireland.
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Anti-Matter Captured!
November 17th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Hulu launches pay services. Did I say $8 a month or $6? Google doing fashion search for some reason. Beatles on iTunes finally. China is ruining the Internet? Maybe. Anti-matter created and captured at CERN. Meteor show tonight. Today is National Unfriend Day. Who cares? RIM CEO is kind of a dick about apps. Religious leader worried sick about Facebook.
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China Now Supercomputer King!
November 15th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Top of the news is Facebook new messaging system. Who cares? iTunes announcement tomorrow. I have ideas as to what they will release. Airport security is over-the-top. How does MeeGo get any traction? China takes over the top spot in the supercomputer game. HP Slate is sketchy. Wikipedia needs money and lots of it.
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The Kin Making a Comeback? What?
November 12th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Apple I to sell for $200,000? Apple to jigger with Java in some odd way to screw Android. Facebook going after GMail with Facebook mail. Cripes. Big fuss over Pedophile book. Whole story is odd and dumb. I discuss. Microsoft Kin back in play? Kinect system deconstructed. Want to see Phone 7, go to Radio Shack. Boxee box now out. Supercomputers will be inside sugar cube.
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Bubbles from a Black Hole?
November 9th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Google adds dumb feature to results. I complain bitterly about this and other new features. Apple launching newest iOS this week. MSFT sends out patch for nasty outlook bug. Call of Duty is killing. Contrails getting attention. Bubbles from the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Colored e-paper? How? MSFT sues Motorola over onerous patent royalties. AMD expects to make chips for the tablet market.
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ZUNE Phone Ships!
November 8th, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
MSFT Phone 7 on sale today. Hooray. The Zune phone arrives. Toshiba showing off nice thin SSD drives. Google giving away free in-flight Wi-Fi over the holidays. Steve Ballmer unloading MSFT stock. Is he going to quit? Sandy Bridge will be selling by the ton next year sez Intel. HTC doing an app stoore. SyFy network snubs Google. Windows 1.0 anniversary. Nokia retake Symbian. Queen Elizabeth on Facebook.
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Macbook Air May be Faulty
November 3rd, 2010 by John C. Dvorak
Facebook taking its mobile strategy to a new level. Apple sued over faking upgrades. MSFT will sell a lot of Kinect and Phone 7 phones. Hooray. T-Mobile just calling 3G to 4G no matter what it really is? I complain about this. Google Buzz stays in the news. iTunes goes to 90-second previews. RIM getting killed. Violent games story march on. Google in significant breach or UK laws. Macbook Air having issues.
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