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Poll: Is the New Microsoft Ad Any Good?
What's Your Take On The New Microsoft Ad Bill being funny. That's good. I like it. Oh man -- this is worse than their dinosaur campaign. I am Mac...I don't has launched its largest consumer marketing campaign focused on the broad potential of Windows across PCs, the web and mobile device ...
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Open Thread: Are You Happy With Apple Support?
Are you happy with Apple support Absolutely! It is allright, nothing to write home about. It is quite terrible. I don't have Apple Earlier this evening, Apple sent out an email to Mobile Me subscribers, giving us free 60-days of service in acknowledgement of outages and poor perfor ...
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How Do You Rate NBCÂ’s Olympics?
How would you rate NBC's coverage of Olympics A... Excellent Work B... Okay, But Not Great C... Crap Olympics? Is it a new Web 2.0 Warning: This story is meant for our U.S. readers only. As many of you already know, I am giving Olympics the miss and perhaps that is ...
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GigaOM Poll: Will You Buy iPhone 3G
Will you buy 3G iPhone Yes, I am a sucker for Apple products I am going to skip this one I just want a simple, cheap in a couple of days the iPhone 3G is going to go on sale. Like many of you I am going to get this device as part of my duties as an intrepid reporter (and a shameless Appl ...
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Poll: Will You Buy The Rumored 3G Version?
Will you buy a 3G video iPhone I'm all set with my landline/standard-issue brickphone/BlackBerry/N95 El Jobso already took all my money for last year's version. Thinking about it. Count me till now, has not exactly been video-friendly, writes Liz over on NewTeeVee. And that is a d ...
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Poll: Will Metered Broadband Make You Switch Your ISP?
Will Metered Broadband Make You Switch Your ISP Metered is Moronic. I will most definitely switch. I am not such a heavy broadband user. I will not switch, and go for a cheaper option. I don't care either not so uncommon overseas, bandwidth caps and metered broadband are ...
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POLL: Should Cisco Kill the Linksys Brand?
PC Advisor, a UK-based magazine, reports that Cisco Systems (CSCO) may phase out its Linksys brand all together, making the company it acquired in March 2003 for $500 million a product category, according to Ciscos VP of SMB solutions marketing, Rick Moran. Last year, Cisco CEO John Chambers ruffl ...
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Should Videos Be Banned in the Workplace?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of companies are thinking about blocking online videos in the workplace blaming productivity loss and clogged pipes for such a draconian line of thinking. Folks at NewTeeVee are in a tizzy about this. Online video is a great way for workers to k ...
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Which Mac Notebook Is For You? Take Our Poll
Apple has introduced new versions of it notebooks Macbook & Macbook Pro with a little more speed, more hard drive and memory, but the same price. Tell me you are as underwhelmed as me by this announcement. These speed bumps are business as usual in the PC business, thanks to Moores Law. The n ...
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Is MacBook Air good enough to be your only computer?
Mac-erati are busy debating about the virtues of the supermodel skinny. John Gruber, who was a bit lukewarm earlier, compares MacBook Air to a convertible coupe and writes, it’s a secondary car, but for anyone without kids and with no need for significant storage space, it works just fine as ...
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Google: Get, Set, & GDrive
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is about to announce an online storage space. Some call it GDrive, and I see it as a vital component of Google Computing Cloud. Regardless, instead of obsessing over the minutiae, I want to know what you folks specifically think about it. Take this poll an ...
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The Secret to Success: Developers, Users, or Hype?
Googles apparently thinking that by attracting developers they can give Android, their mobile phone platform, the best chance at success. Targeting developers, though, is not the only way to find success with new technology: some companies succeed by going directly after users while others ride on w ...
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Hulu, NBC-News Corp Online Service Launches
The long-awaited and much-derided NBC (GE) and News Corp (NWS) joint venture Hulu will make a somewhat public debut this week, opening up a private beta tonight of its web video service and initiating distribution of its movies, TV shows, and mashups on AOL (TWX), Comcast (CMCSA), MSN (MSFT), MySpac ...
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Big Media vs. YouTube & Google: Smart or Not?
It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google (GOOG), and are coming up with their own strategies for online video. Today, NBC (GE) confirmed to NewTeeVee that it pulled its content off YouTube in a shift towards its own service, ...
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The Mad Ad World & Cheap Calls
Technology business often goes through periods where rationality and reality are suspended. We just might be in that phase, and nothing highlights that than the launch of ad-supported phone services. In UK, Blyk, an ad-supported mobile service we wrote about eons ago launched. Given the high tariffs ...
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Bebo, Wall Strip, Feedburner - who is getting bought out?
Which of the three rumored deals - CBS-WallStrip, Bebo-Yahoo or Google-Feedburner - will come true? Take the poll. If you think two out of three are going to happen, let us know your pick (in comments of course.) Share/E-mail
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What speed is really Broadband for you?
There is a lot of discussion these days in the Congress about broadband, with some legislators openly criticizing FCCs definition of broadband (200 Kbps) and clamoring for faster connections for consumers. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) says that 2 Mbps is what should be deemed as broadband - something the C ...
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Apple or Amazon: Who will you buy your tunes from?
Amazon.com announced its much awaited DRM free music service today - starting with who else, but EMI Musics catalog. They have other labels signed up as well, though the three other major labels are still sitting on the fence. Amazon and Apple are the two big companies pushing DRM (unprotected if yo ...
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Is TV the New PC?
Earlier this morning, we received the latest report from Arnie Berman, technology strategist for Cowen & Company. He asked an interesting question, which I thought would be something we all should discuss. This is what he wrote: In the past, consumers replaced their PC???s every 3 years and the ...
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The Friday Open Thread
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