Blu-Ray for the PS3 was a “mistake”
Forcing PS3 punters into buying a Blu-Ray format player with their consoles might be backfiring on Sony.
Archive for December 12, 2006
Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?
Jeremy Zawodny catches Google stealing a page from Yahoo’s site.
IBM touts ‘Flash-killer’
IBM has built a prototype storage device with two partners that they claim is 500 times faster than Flash.
Apple’s number of ‘new-to-Mac’ buyers growing
A recent survey of twenty Apple Specialist retailers shows that approximately 25 percent of customers buying Macs are new to the platform and that the figure is likely to keep rising due to the iPod “halo effect” and Apple’s Boot Camp software.
Google Expands to Radio Ads
Google Inc. announced late last week that it has begun testing its new radio advertising service, a move that represents the company’s most elaborate attempt to expand its operations beyond the Internet.
Windows Development Chief: ‘I’d buy a Mac if I didn’t work for Microsoft”
Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had “lost sight” of customers’ needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn’t working for Microsoft.
101 Ways to use Google’s New Website Optimizer
Google has just released a powerful tool that allows you to test changes to your website. Here are 101 tips to improve your web site based on the information it reveals.
Sony sucks at viral marketing
Sony tries yet again at viral marketing with the PSP and fails yet again. Two kids in their garage making crappy rap song to get a PSP from their parents for Christmas is a terrible way to get people excited about the PSP.
Are you getting a new MacBook for Christmas?
If your significant other hates gadgets like mine does, probably not. Here’s your chance to win one in time for Christmas morning (no purchase necessary).
GameCube Zelda: The Lady Vanishes?
When your new console has a single killer-app (and that Twilight Princess — she’s a killer) and another version of the game is supposed to ship almost a month afterward on your very dead old console does it make sense to short supply the old version?
