Some numbers are being thrown out showing a decrease in sales of video games. First off let me point out this a month over month matrix, which is pretty ridicules way to measure sales, but we are going to assume there is still a decrease. Best summed up by alphadog: The recession appears to have [...]
When airlines started charging for the first bag it drove me crazy. They just nickel and dime you to death. Some are even charging for drinks and water! So how much money could you even make charging for bags? Well I guess the jokes on me, cause it turns out to be over a billion [...]
We all know that malicious activity comes in many flavors. From the mostly simple DDOS, to DNS records, to a combo web hack. I have to give the guys that took down the Virginia PMP some credit, they are either really smart or really dumb. Here is what the Virginia PMP staff found on their [...]
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Today Apple reported a pretty impressive profit of $1.21 billion. MacRumors has the transcript of the conference call, which has a pretty decent Q&A session. What gives me the best hope is this quote: Q: New thoughts on the Netbook at this point? A: For us it’s about doing great products. When I’m looking at [...]
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Here is a story from Giz that doesn’t surprise me much at all. Turns out the same people that pirate music, also buy more of it. I can relate to this, i am not going to go out and buy a CD for $12-$15 to find out that there is only one decent song on [...]
Well here is a interesting surprise, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. Honestly I can’t believe Oracle has the money for this. I thought IBM might be Suns saving grace, but Oracle? I don’t think this is the bail out that Sun is going to need in my opinion. More on the story over at Pulse2