From the monthly archives: January 2007
The results are here of the eight-annual Harris Interactive/The Wall Street Journal ranking of the world’s best and worst corporate reputations. Helped immensely by Bill Gates philanthropy, Microsoft dethroned cutesy Johnson & Johnson known for its emotionally appealing baby products. Interesting that around the same time a report comes out saying Microsoft [...]
Cingular, Priceline, and Travelocity agreed to pay fines of $30,000-$35,000 and investigate their method of delivery for online advertisements. While the fines themselves don’t even amount to a slap on the wrist, the requirements for the future seem promising, including a more stringent process of using ads: “through companies that fully describe their adware, that [...]
Ozmozr (a microformat-aware aggregator / resource sharing / social site) has been getting a fair amount of press
since it’s alpha release last week, but some people seem unclear about how the site can be used. I sit in the same room as the [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has some unidentified
sources claiming that Dell will begin selling personal computers with
Vista tonight just before midnight eastern standard time. These first
movers will get their new Vista-loaded computers on Tuesday, the
official launch day of Vista for home [...]
iStock, a site that hooks up people who take pictures with people who are looking for pictures, has hit a rough patch. It appears a contributor to iStock recently had his video rejected. No, it wasn’t porn, nor was it a copy of somebody else’s work. It was a goldfish escaping [...]
Wow. We’re not even through January and DRM is knocking at heaven’s (hell’s?) door. The latest news comes today with Norway proclaiming that Apple’s DRM via the iPod and iTunes is illegal. France, Germany, and Finland joined with Norway in releasing the following statement:
“We believe consumers have a right to [...]
Microsoft is getting some bad press for offering to pay a blogger to change a supposedly inaccurate article on Wikipedia. The blogger let it out in the open, and it wasn’t long before it hit the mainstream press. Even the Wall Street Journal decided to run an article based around the situation.
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So Yahoo released earnings info today, which was followed by mildly negative even if hopeful commentary. Google, of course, being cited as the major obstacle. It got me thinking about the fact that I don’t use any of Yahoo’s major offerings (meaning: search, email, or advertising). I don’t do this on purpose; [...]
I get all sorts of interesting emails being part of a site like TechConsumer, but I’ve never gotten a request like this. A woman contacted me — we’ll call her Tina — and explained how her husband is cheating on her. She knows this because she took a peek at his cellphone and saw some [...]
If you missed the Netflix news last week, the company announced that it will offer existing subscribers the option of watching movies and TV shows online at no additional cost. So if you pay $18 a month for your regular three DVDs at at time mailing plan, soon you’ll be receiving 18 [...]
