http://www.merrifield-roberts.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:27:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/09/04/a-heads-up-on-hp-business-desktop-pcs/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/29/microsoft-and-wpp-to-swap-advertising-assets/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/24/att-raises-iphone-data-plan-to-30-a-month/ 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," ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/21/att-launches-its-own-browser-pogo-surprise-it/ 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, ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/21/driving-happily-in-a-subaru-on-road-trip-2008/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/21/in-mtv-myspace-talk-huckabee-focuses-on-economy/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/21/torrentspy-to-appeal-whopper-legal-judgment/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/21/v2g-smart-grids-meet-electric-vehicles/ 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 ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/20/report-sprint-ceo-plans-job-cuts/ 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. Click here ... http://www.merrifield-roberts.com/index.php/2010/08/19/microsoft-gets-a-blue-screen-of-death-medal-in-b/