After what many would assume would be the lowest point we’d expect to hit in the Dow, hitting the 7,000 mark for the first time in ages, I’d beg to differ.
Long time bell-weather of economic resilience, consumer and retail spending in the holiday season is in jeopardy. With BestBuy in anguish, Circuit City filing for [...]
The worst of the economic crisis has not yet passed
BoA impresses online
Wow. I actually closed a deprecated savings account via a simple, secure mail message I sent a week ago. I notified them in the email I didn’t need any confirmation at all. 2 days later, the account was closed. God bless the fact that customer support is finally embracing the internet. Just think how long [...]
AppleTV gets something right: YouTube
Besides almost hitting $120 in intraday trading thanks to the news, AppleTV now has some features that would bring it (barely) on par with a modded old-school Xbox: it can play YouTube videos! Sorry Apple, I’m all tough love. It just means I care.
Kudos and Boodos for Apple’s Outlook
Amen to this article on the market segmentation of smartphone users into discreet pools of consumer and business demographics. I posted way back that BlackBerry wouldn’t make a consumer friendly phone, and although they did in the Pearl, which has a camera and MP3 player, there’s no way it could touch the iPhone on the [...]
iPhone: Redemption with a Splash of Doubt
Yes. Yes. YES, the iPhone is finally out. Nearly the entire IT industry came to a grinding halt as Steve Jobs announced the iPhone officially. Alongside some of the moust highly receptive praise from the analysts, comes the near certain barrage of doubts. We all know that fame begets criticism, and I’d like to share with [...]
Thanks for listening, Apple: iPhone (cont.)
I guess you have to be careful what you wish for. My buddies at Engadget report on a quote from the Q3 earnings call I listened to yesterday from CFO Peter Oppenheimer:
“As regards cell phones, we don’t think that the phones that are available today make the best music players. We think the iPod [...]
Where art thou, iPhone?
We have yet to be offered a true contender for a highly consumer-friendly MP3 Phone. Apple needs to do this. And they need to get on this one… now. I’m really disappointed that Motorolla beat them to the punch with the V3 RAZR. Playing MP3’s on your phone old hat?
Ring ring
Absolutely, Motorolla’s V3 RAZR is not new, but it combines an already market-proven phone [...]
