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Sunday, 15 July 2012 08:18
Apple Puts Their Products Back On The Green List, But Has The Damage Already Been Done?
Written by Sean Kalinich
So Apple is now back on the “green” list. This is an interesting development and one that has been covered in copious detail over multiple sites. We did not dive in when we first heard the news as it was…
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Friday, 13 July 2012 13:59
How Microsoft Is Hurting Their Own Chance For Sucess With Windows 8
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft just cannot get out of their own way in making some very bad decisions over the past few months. First they have pushed an OS on the public and OEMs that does not make all that much sense based…
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Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:37
PC Shipment Numbers from Gartner and IDC Are Being Misused By Many Media Sources
Written by Sean Kalinich
The sales numbers are out for “PC” shipments from both IDC and Gartner. The two fortunetelling firms differ on many numbers but both agree that the shipments of PCs (yes from Apple too) have declined by .1 % over Q2…
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:15
Apple's History Shows They Use Other's Ideas And Are Now Trying To Use Them To Harm Android Device Manufacturers
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have been following Apple’s free run through the patent office for quite a while now (and I covered it long before starting this site). In the beginning Apple would patent advancements or refinements on technology they “borrowed” from others.…
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:32
Google Fined $22.5 Million For Traking Safari Users, Too Bad It Will Not Stop This In The Future
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google has agreed to settle with the FTC over accusations that they bypassed security features in Safari to track users’ internet habits. Although Google often comments that they maintain the highest privacy and security standards for its users they have…
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:02
Steve Ballmer Admits Surface and Windows 8 Are Reactions To Apple... Did He Just Give Away The Initiative?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is trying to do a little damage control, but as usual he just does not get how to do that. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference Ballmer made the rather foolish mistake of announcing his intent to…
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AMD has just announced that their Q2 earnings may be as much as 11% lower than expected (over Q1 2012). Originally AMD predicted a gain of 3% sequentially for this quarter, but it looks like a few things did not…
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Monday, 09 July 2012 08:31
Will There Be Enough Development Support To Make Windows RT Worth It?
Written by Sean Kalinich
On Saturday we published an editorial about some of the issues with Windows RT. These issues served to highlight why Microsoft might have chosen to build their own tablet. Although we do not agree with the decision and think that…
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Saturday, 07 July 2012 13:54
Windows RT ARM Driver Issues May Cause Problems With Manufacturing; Microsoft’s Surface Not Helping
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft’s Windows 8 (both Windows RT and Windows 8 for x86-64) is due to hit the market around November of this year and it has already caused a ton of controversy. But there is one that did not get a…
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Friday, 06 July 2012 14:23
Cisco Feeling the Effects Of Forcing The Cloud On A Market That Does Not Want It
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cisco is now facing exactly what we think will happen when people realize how tied down they will be with Windows 8. The networking giant attempted to force people that own their Linksys consumer line of wireless routers to use…
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Friday, 06 July 2012 13:11
New Report Tries to Show that Apple is Beating Microsoft... The Raw Data Shows Something Different
Written by Sean Kalinich
Apple and their supporters love to have fun with numbers and statistics. One of the recent ones that has caught our eye is that ratio of Macs to PCs. I have seen titles that claim the PC is dead (again)…
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Tuesday, 03 July 2012 18:12
Microsoft Is Trying Every Marketing Gimmick To Make Windows 8 A Success, Even Getting Bill Gates Behind It
Written by Sean Kalinich
If you want to get a good grasp on how much Microsoft needs Windows 8 and their Surface tablet to work all you have to do is take a look at who they have talking about it. Right now they…
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Monday, 02 July 2012 22:07
Amazon Web Services Suffers Two Outages In Less Than 30 Days... Is the Cloud Really Safe?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend there were storms through northern Virginia that left many without power. One of these was an Amazon Cloud Computing node that housed Netflix, Pinterest, Instgram, Heroku and a few others were impacted. Ok Impacted is putting it…
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Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:47
The Corporate Mythology And Its Place In The Market
Written by Sean Kalinich
In our articles and editorials you have heard us use some interesting terms that are not commonly used in marketing or PR. One of these is the Corporate Personality another is the Corporate Mythology. Now, you are never going to…
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Friday, 29 June 2012 19:38
Judge Lucy Koh Grants Another Ban To Apple Apparently Without Doing ANY Research on the Matter
Written by Sean Kalinich
Someone needs to send some of the Apple lawyers back to preschool where they find shapes that are the same and get to pick out colors as well. We are frankly getting sick of Judges bowing to Apple’s request for…
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Friday, 29 June 2012 13:42
Why the MegaUpload warrants had to be broad and vague
Written by Sean Kalinich
With the news that the warrants used to justify the storming of the home of MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom many are looking for reasons why this is important, unimportant and a few other things in the process. We have heard…
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