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Are companies like your insurance company tracking every time you buy a bottle of wine or pick up a few cigars? A listener to my podcast responded to a discussion I had about it in a recent show. A Listener responds: I heard you mention on your #90 podcast that companies are buying consumers credit-card purchasing habits, and well this
This is just to funny Andrew over at Exit50 has a very funny graphic on his main page. [Exit50]
Seems like Microsoft and Google have jumped into bed and now Blogger users have a cool plugin for word. My question is why did they not create a similar plugin for OneNote that would have been really cool. Now we will see if someone can get Microsoft to make it work with other blogging tools. The API is their and
Update: Talked to Robert Scoble on the phone, and it turns out many of my concerns are unwarranted. When I attended Gnomedx, and Microsoft announced their RSS initiative they also announced the elements that would be added to RSS, additionally we understood that RSS would be integrated into Vista heavily. So today when I read the ComputerWorld article, I immediately
If you think all this fuss over spyware, adware, viruses and trojans are just methods to get you to switch to a Mac, you’re wrong! These are by far the biggest threats to online security. If anyone is consider purchasing a computer for your home, you need to address this problem before you ever connect to the Internet. According to Consumer Reports.org :
Commercial internet wi-fi hotspots are popping up in coffee shops and bookstores around the country. Most universities and many public libraries offer free wi-fi service. A quick drive though any but the most downtrodden neighborhoods yields signals from at least a small percentage of the residences. With wi-fi being as popular as it is, why is it that wi-fi infrastructure isn't as well developed as cellular telephone service? Why hasn't someone made wi-fi even more accessible?
According to Bloomberg.com, Apple, maker of the Macintosh PC, kept customer satisfaction at the highest level since 1994, the first year of the survey. Its Mac shipments are at a five-year high. Dell's customer satisfaction is at the lowest since 1998, based on the index. According to a Bloomberg spokesmen, "The satisfaction of customers is pretty much a leading indicator
I lead todays podcast off with another real Ghost story from my home lots of listener e-mail. Prizes for show 100 are shaping up. Send your promos to geeknewspromo@gmail.com [Save $1 on any order at GoDaddy.com through this link] Publishing with Independents MSNBC Podcasts Sony PSP Windows 95 Oral History 9-11 RSS Name Wars 100 Million Trip to Moon! Mac
Update: [Heart to Hear with Steve Gillmor] Here you have a very vocal Steve Gillmor as it appears under contract with Adam Curry and Podshow. You have the same Steve Gillmor and some of his Gang writing about the show they are producing for Podshow and Curry on ZDNet. To me that seems like a conflict of Interest. Does ZDNet
I have invested significant time and resources to figuring out exactly that and in a word yes but with limitations till the audience sizes grow. This week checks are delivered to 20 some podcasters over at TechPodcasts.com derived from traditional advertising models with a slight twist. The line that all podcasters have to balance when taking on advertisements and or
I just got slapped around by someone asking me to say something negative about Microsoft, since I was so keen on pointing out some hate and discontent going on with Apple users. Seems to happen a lot, anytime I bash Apple people seem to think I'm being to negative towards Apple, quite simply it's not the case it's just that
I am pretty used to seeing a large number of cookies in my cookie folder. Some people really hate them, and kill them virtually on contact. I run spysweeper 3 times a week and it kills them off like flies. I am online as much as anyone and figure at this point if marketers have not figured out what I
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