Month: November 2004

Here are few gemstones for your to keep in your Christmas stocking…Check out the snow globe diddy. This rocks.

Merry Christmas to all!

I for one am really sad at the latest moves by G4Techtv….I have even heard rumors that the techtv is going to be dropped form the logo…sad day indeed. All the gaming shows on G4techtv leave me with few options to watch. I’m a tech junkie and I crave tech news, tech stuff, tech anything. The screensavers and older shows like call for help and fresh gear really made my day and made me smile–> and more kept me up to date on the latest and greatest tech stuff and gear. Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane are the heart and soul of The Screen savers not to mention Alex and Dan and Yoshi…all great talent that now have to find work elseware…boo hoo…

I think G4techtv really needs to take a hard look at what is happening and buckly down…before its too late.

TiVo reported Monday a net loss of $26.4 million, or 33 cents per share, on revenue of $38.3 million for the third quarter ended Oct. 31. Its subscriber base has more than doubled from a year ago to about 2.3 million, but roughly 61 percent of subscribers come through satellite operator DirecTV, which is expected to offer a competing DVR soon. TiVo is also fighting an onslaught of competitors, including cable operators, who now offer digital video recorder-equipped set-top boxes of their own. TiVo officials contend that the new (ad-oriented) features they’ll be installing in the set top boxes will not be any more intrusive than the “thumbs-up” icons that already appear during some commercials and shows. But to some customers, the impending advertising changes smack of betrayal from the innovators whose hard drive-based gizmo lets TV viewers record programs, fast-forward through ads and pause at will.

TiVi made itself a hit being an off-center “Apple” of sorts. Now we get to see if it becomes rotten to the corps.

Originally posted by Bill OBrien from Alice and Bill.com

Okay, I’ve got to mention all this ‘Windows on Treo for Dell’ stuff, I guess, because everybody keeps sending it in. My take? I’ll believe it when I see it. What makes the Treo a good phone isn’t just the Palm operating system, but its integration with the user experience of the hardware combined. Although I think PalmOne could engineer an experience using Windows Mobile that is just as potent as its current offerings, I don’t see that the Treo hardware itself is all that amazing. Why would Dell try to get PalmOne to build them a keyboard-based PDA when they could just contract the same people who make their PDAs to do one as well? I have no clue, but I’ve yet to see a compelling argument to convince me that the likes of Dell needs PalmOne more than PalmOne needs new customers to sell their products to.

MS Powered Treo for Dell? The Rumors Continue… [Treonauts]
Persistent Palm Rumors [GigaOm]

Originally from Gizmodo

Most of the desktop computers in the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP’s 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government’s not entirely impressive IT history.

And possibly one of the most costly. According to staff reports, the outage occurred on Monday afternoon, disconnecting staff e-mail, benefits processing, and Internet and intranet connectivity.

Originally from osViews | osOpinion