Daily English Show #11 – Wellington To Blenheim (Video)
December 25, 2011 – 7:13 am | 29 Comments

The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today they travel to the beehive (Parliament), Lyall Bay (check out Maranui Cafe review) then …

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Microsoft Between a Rock and a Hard Place
February 26, 2009 – 9:32 am | 10 Comments

Yesterday Microsoft took the usual action of filing a suit against the popular GPS provider TomTom. The case revolves around patents involving file management as well as in-car navigation features. The trick is that TomTom …

Windows Mobile 6.5 Less Sucky That Last One
February 16, 2009 – 4:56 pm | 4 Comments

As Microsoft always strives to be less sucky that the last thing that Microsoft did, Windows Mobile 6.5 is a movement in the right direction. Highlights include a friendly hardware start button, the honeycomb touch …

Linux Silverlight Goes Live Destroys My Linux Netbook
February 15, 2009 – 11:06 am | 7 Comments

Aside from my MacBookpro, I have a Dell D600 which served a purpose about 3 years ago. Luckily it is now repurposed as a Linux Netbook running gOS 3.1, a version of Ubuntu Linux specifically …

Zune Team Splits Up Prepares for Hardware Divorce
February 14, 2009 – 10:00 am | 4 Comments

After the Microsoft purging in early January no one department was left untouched including the team working on the Zune player. All of Microsoft’s divisions are losing money except Windows, Office, Tools and Business CRM
Although …

The Future of Wireless is Fixed
February 3, 2009 – 10:10 pm | 3 Comments

Over at Gigaom, they are predicting a wide spread slow down of Wireless Data Services WDS:
Last week, UBS Research in a research note pointed out that AT&T had 1.25 million 3G laptop subscribers as of …

Is Microsoft’s Portable Strategy in Tatters?
February 3, 2009 – 12:18 am | One Comment

Microsoft entered 2009, midnight PST to be exact, with egg on their faces over failure of the Zune Media player to account for the Leap Second which ended 2008.
According to Zune owners from across …

Zune The Impossible
January 28, 2009 – 10:05 pm | 2 Comments

Uploaded on November 11, 2006 by penmachine
Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News comments today about the fate of the Zune and indeed why iPod users should care.
But anyone who plans to buy an …

Zune Sales Plummet 54%
January 25, 2009 – 5:37 pm | 2 Comments

Buried in the Microsoft latest SEC filing is an interesting and noteworthly comment about the Zune player:
Zune platform revenue decreased $100 million or 54% reflecting a decrease in device sales….
This means the Zune went from …

Microsoft’s Strength is it’s Greatest Weakness
November 16, 2008 – 3:17 pm | 3 Comments

Henry Blodget , mostly is known mostly for being spectacularly wrong during the dot com bubble of the early 2000s, and Silicon Alley Insider have decided this week to put pen to tablet (so to …

More Head Wind For Windows Mobile
November 7, 2008 – 11:31 am | 2 Comments

Analyst firm Canalys has released the results of it’s Consumer Mobility Analysis Report and it is very good news for Apple, good news for RIM and Microsoft and bad news for Nokia:
The success of …

Bright New Mobile Future
October 26, 2008 – 10:36 am | No Comment

Uploaded flickr by gholzer
Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a …

London Stock Exchange Dies On Critical Day
September 8, 2008 – 9:27 pm | 3 Comments

Reuters reported today:
The London Stock Exchange suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world’s third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users.
“This halt …

Microsoft Looks for a New View
September 7, 2008 – 11:50 am | 4 Comments

[Uploaded via flickr by Thomas Hawk]
With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, …

End of an Era at Microsoft
July 5, 2008 – 10:40 am | No Comment

[Uploaded on flickr on December 29, 2005 by niallkennedy]
With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the …