After selling $170 million in Halo 3 games it makes you wonder where it all came from. As Steve Chazin in the marketingapple.com blog points out:
One of the best games ever for the Mac was a little product known as Marathon from a little company known as Bungie. Keep in mind that Steve Jobs [...]
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Microsoft buys itself into entertaiment history!
The social graph and new social economy
Don’t want to sound like a broken record but…since the dawn of the internetz people have being trying to communicate: email, chat, VoIP, etc. People have been claiming that the next step in communication will be video, when in reality it is shaping to become more indirect and in context communications. Om Malik declared “email [...]
Gateway takes a swing at Apple
Gateway today announced the new “One”….a sorry attempt to lure iMac customers away from the Mac. A couple of years ago, that would have sounded crazy….lol.
It reminds me of the 20th anniversary Macintosh. You tell me if I am wrong.
Will Shripley: iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?
Will Shripley the creator of Delicious Library made a great post on his blog on how Apple is following Sony’s footsteps in loosing the number one spot in music player due to greed and stupidity. It is a long but very good read. I completely agree with what he says. Apple must play nice with [...]
MacRumors: New leaked info on Leopard(pics, videos and more)
Macrumors is reporting on new changes that appeared on the Friday night Leopard seed. It includes several GUI and bug fixes. The new intro movie(after installation) was posted on youtube(seen below), very nice stuff. I can’t wait to get my hands on that cat.
Old Article: WiFi Content Shopping
Now it may not seem like a “wow” since introduction of the new WiFi iTunes store in August. In Feb 26, 2006 I wrote a small piece for my techscurry blog. The following is the original unchanged article:
There are an increasing number of WiFi networks and devices in consumers’ hands, not limited to laptops or [...]
Mint.com: Great personal finance software(FREE)
Since I started working last year, I became obsessed with personal fiancee software. I tried all the ones I could get my hands on (i.e. Quicken, iBank, Cha-Ching, and Wesabe). They all had good things and bad. On some, getting the information into the system was a pain the neck. Others just offered a poor [...]
ZDNet: New version of Gmail being tested
Yahoo and Hotmail have done a lot of changes to their email offerings, and since it’s inception in 2004 Gmail has gone pretty much unchanged(added several features like google chat). The one feature that I would love to see is IMAP support. I use Mail app in my Mac and the email app in my [...]
My firs post
A couple of years ago I started a blog called techscurry…..I learned a lot from writing that blog. Then after some time I simpy stopped writting…..then it got hacked and everything was lost. Now I am back with a more informal blog. Instead of emailing friends and family I am simply going to post here.