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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Tech Stores Bite the Dust

This isn’t breaking news or anything, but both Dell and Treo closed their freestanding stores in the past few weeks. 
Treo had 34 stores, believe it or not, and is facing a class-action lawsuit by owners of Treo 600 and 650 devices.  (I’ll be joining that lawsuit. If you own/owned a Treo 600 or 650, go here for [...]

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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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Fake Steve Jobs is Really, REALLY Funny

Check out his acceptance speech of a Crunchie Award, on behalf of Real Steve Jobs and Apple.  The language is NSFW.  But hilarious.   Based on this 4-minute clip alone, I’m now an admirer.

You can find a recap of the Crunchie Award winners here.  Take a few minutes to check out the nominees and winners.  I [...]

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Dear Santa

Just to keep things simple, I’ve let RollingStone compile my Tech Wish List for me this year. Anything off this list will do just fine, thanks:
iPod Touch: Man, this thing is handsome.  Not very practical for working out at the gym or bouncing around in my laptop bag from the office to the car to [...]

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Kayak Buys SideStep

I’m a fairly frequent traveler, not really a road warrior.  I book all my own travel.  I think the convenience of choosing my own flights, rental cars, and hotels is well worth the time and trouble of getting a little savvy with the online tools available. Orbitz is my default site for booking travel.  Travelocity & [...]

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Apple: Think (Act, Do, Be) Secret

Apple sued Apple rumor site Think Secret in 2005.  The suit began when site publisher Nick Ciarellia refused to name his source for a product Apple was producing that never launched.  This week, an agreement was reached between the opposing parties.  And as a result Think Secret will be shut down.  Details are, not surprisingly, confidential.  The [...]

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CES: Content Electronics Show?

According to a special report from Retailing Today, “Delivering digital content to consumers in new ways will be a key theme at the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas.”  I think this is great news, and a potential learning experience, for all of us in book publishing.  Especially publishers with rich, valuable content. [...]

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Don’t Call It a Comeback

In plotting to blog again, I originally wanted to point out that I tinkered with blogging once before.  Then, after way too much thought, I realized I’ve had 3 previous blogs. 
 So here we go again, and who knows if this time it will stick.  I got mad at myself before for starting a blog and [...]

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