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A heads-up on HP business desktop PCs

04 Sep 2010

The story involves a business that ordered 24 HP DX2200 desktop machines (since discontinued) and suffered four motherboard failures, two dead hard drives, and another hard drive “on the brink of failure”. Beyond these hardware problems, I found the account of dealing with HP most interesting. No doubt, many of us can relate.
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Microsoft and WPP to swap advertising assets

29 Aug 2010

For WPP, an asset swap would allow the ad giant to shed itself of an ad-serving tool to publishers, a line of business that it apparently is less critical to its main operations, according to Advertising Age.

Microsoft’s forays into online ads may be focused on yet another deal, according to a report Monday in Advertising [...]

AT&T raises iPhone data plan to $30 a month

24 Aug 2010

Also, there’s news that if you bought the old
iPhone after May 27, you can return it to the store to get a new one without incurring an additional handset charge (though you still may have to pay the restocking fee). We have yet to confirm this, though; we’ll keep you updated as soon as we [...]

AT&T launches its own browser, Pogo. Surprise It

21 Aug 2010

The obvious first question one asks the AT&T execs when beginning a discussion of Pogo, the company’s new Web browser, is “What is AT&T doing getting into the browser market?” The answer you get is, at first, amusing. It’s a chance to build “another relationship with the customer,” they say. They also tell you [...]

Driving happily in a Subaru on Road Trip 2008

21 Aug 2010

This is the 2008 Subaru Outback 2.5 XT that CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman drove on Road Trip 2008. Here, the car is parked in front of the Hank Williams Sr. boyhood home and museum in Georgiana, Ala.
(Credit:
Daniel Terdiman/CNET News)

SAN FRANCISCO–I was sitting in a Costco here Wednesday night, waiting to have four new tires [...]

In MTV-MySpace talk, Huckabee focuses on economy,

21 Aug 2010

Mike Huckabee, on videoconference, answers questions from the audience.
(Credit:
Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com)
NEW YORK–MTV’s “Choose or Lose” pre-Super Tuesday event, co-hosted with MySpace and the Associated Press, marked my first time in a live studio audience. It sure has been a trip; there are cameras just about everywhere, and MTV packed us all in like sardines. [...]

TorrentSpy to appeal whopper legal judgment

21 Aug 2010

TorrentSpy intends to appeal a court decision that requires the now-defunct search engine to pay $111 million in damages to the six largest film studios, according to the company’s attorney.
TorrentSpy attorney Ira Rothken

Ira Rothken has defended TorrentSpy since 2006, when it was accused in a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America [...]

V2G Smart grids meet electric vehicles

21 Aug 2010

As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an electric recharge grid across the entire country. Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011.

In the future, utilities will pay you to plug in [...]

Report Sprint CEO plans job cuts

20 Aug 2010

One of the biggest problems Sprint has faced is retaining customers. Quarter after quarter Sprint has seen customers, especially those from the old Nextel network, leave its service. Hesse who was CEO of Embarq, a spin-off from Sprint, said when he took over that he’d work on improving lingering issues associated with the 2005 acquisition [...]

Microsoft gets a ‘Blue Screen of Death’ medal in B

19 Aug 2010

The most ironic thing in this is that I’m sure Microsoft lobbied hard to give the Beijing Olympic Committee free use of Windows, just as it did with SharePoint for the World Economic Forum. (Bill Gates can be very persuasive.) Some “deals” really are too good to be true.
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