Category: Companies

  • MSN’s Search ads will help Google

    Some years ago, I was interviewing Bob Pittman, the now-departed chief operating officer of America Online and he gave me a golden nugget of marketing advice. Before coming to AOL, he ran the theme park operator Six Flags. When did Disney World have its best year for attendance, he asked me. The year that Six…

  • Someday my phone will come…

    In the continuing saga of my seeking a new Sony Ericsson S710a cell phone that doesn’t cost $900, I discovered that Amazon.com is, or maybe is, selling the phone for just $420 and offering a $150 rebate making the final price just $270. That is an amount that could be in the budget. But —…

  • Visual Poll, Miami Beach running path, 8 a.m.

    (seen in use by strollers, runners and assorted grand mothers) Sony devices: 2 Old fashioned tape players/unknown brand: 2 iPods & iPod minis: 17 iPod shuffle: 1

  • Motorola Doesn’t Shows Actual iTunes Phone again

    (Updated 2/16 – not the iPhone) Motorola tantalized the masses in January at the Consumer Electronics Show with a demo of a mobile phone that could also play digital music in Apple’s iTunes Store format. While a billion reporters and bloggers sought to be the first to post a picture of the first phone compatible…

  • Now everyone will want one

    Engadget got their hands on the about-to-be-released Sony Ericsson S710a that I’m lustin’ for and, no surprise, they love it: “The screen, by the way, is a huge, bright QVGA affair that make all the other screens jealous. They will hide in shame and envy.” ” The phone is metal, not plastic, which gives it…

  • How much is that phone(y) in the window?

    I’ve said in print that I’m lusting for the new Sony Ericsson S710a mobile phone, but wow, $900? Ouch. I guess I’ll be lusting for a while longer.

  • Review of iPhoto 5.0

    (Updated with quick slide show button on 1/27 and on 2/3 with 5.01 release) Steve Jobs’ introduction of the updated iPhoto in the iLife suite had me salivating immediately. Cutting the price of photo prints in half from 39 cents to 19 cents and offering a zillion new options for photo books (also at lower…

  • iPhoto 5.01 is out

    Apple has listened! They’re out with iPhoto 5.01. Fixes include: upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, dragging albums into folder, importing MPEG 4 movies, and also includes a number of other minor fixes. So far it only seems to be available through “Software Update” but I’m sure it will be posted on the web soon. Original review

  • Amazon’s “people also bought…” made me laugh

    I was comparing some Apple Computer offerings on the company’s web site versus Amazon.com and laughed out loud when I saw that three Amazon customers who bought the new mac mini computer “recommended” also purchasing the Stanley Proto 680-28-241 1-1/2 Flex Blade Professional Putty Knife Stanley #28-241. That’s the tool you’d use to self-install extra…

  • More good reading on new Mac & iPod

    John Gruber has his usual mix of thought-provoking analysis and interesting tangents in his lengthy post on the Mac mini and iPod shuffle. Must remember to subscribe to John’s blog, Daring Fireball.