100 Best Products, Sliced and Diced

PC World recently released their 100 Best Products of 2008.  Always a great topic for debate, these “Top/Best” lists, no?
Doesn’t matter, what appeals to me is the navigation capabilities of the list.  Look at it in ranked order, ABC order, category order, most anticipated (in pictures), or by readers’ top choices. 
Jason’s highlights and lowlights:
#1 Hulu: [...]

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iPhone Storming the Web! Linux Nearly Obsolete!

0.14% of all Web users are accessing said Web via the iPhone, up from 0.01% the prior month.  At this rate, the iPhone will be the leading Web browsing platform in the world by the year 4022!  But seriously, the iPhone has moved up to spot #4 behind Windows, Mac, and Linux.  That’s the news [...]

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Apple Highlights: Best Buy, iPhone, Training(!)

Apple recently release 4th quarter 2007 results, and here’s what caught my attention.
+ Apple had 201 stores open during the quarter.
+ Number of Apple Store visitors leapt to 38.4 million from 28 million prior year in Q4.
+ Apple retail stores generated $1.7 billion revenue in Q4 2007 vs. $1.11 billion in Q4 2006.  Huge jump.
+ [...]

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i Before G, Which One for Me?

The iPhone was the toast of 2007.  Will the GPhone be the toast of 2008?  The rumor mill says that a Google powered phone could arrive as early as February.
Last year, Google downplayed the potential of a Google phone.  Instead, they created the Open Handset Alliance.  Which still confuses me at this point. 
“The Open Handset [...]

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Firsties

Here’s a word I learned recently: Firsties.  The meaning I’m referring to is someone who is ”first” to buy a new gadget.  This could apply in recent times to the iPhone, Wii, PS3, Kindle, etc.  And it usually entails unique individuals lining up on a cold sidewalk overnight(s) in order to be the first to buy.  Camping equipment [...]

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