AT&T and Dish Network Slams California Fire Victim
Your home burns to the ground, you call to cancel service and the service agent told they would have to pay for the receiver. This is what you call a corporate relations nightmare.
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Rob Greenlee long term Podcaster Joins Zune
I am real happy that Microsoft picked up Rob Greenlee to be their Podcast Programming & Marketing Lead for Zune. Rob understands the podcasting space and was one of the original podcasters over at the Tech Podcast Network.
The Silicon Valley Startup Debate is non-starter for some Startups
As a 43 year old entrepreneur whose primary skills in life up to three years ago was working in advanced electronics in the United States Navy, you would not think I would get the startup bug.
Sun to sell Microsoft Servers
Sun has been in trouble for a number of years. While they make good product and have good services, the market and value of their core product has declined significantly in relation to Intel servers. All of the Unix market has declined, but other players that had other businesses to prop the Unix segment up (notable IBM and HP) were able to cope better. Sun’s strategy for a long time was to avoid caving in to commodity hardware and operating systems. Java, N1 and thin client (to name a few) were strategies to drive the decision away from the platform where they could compete better. As were strategic relationships with the likes of Oracle. And Sun arguably did a better job than any other company in capatalising on the Internet boom, which cave them a significant war chest of money and customers.
10 Secrets About Working in IT
Jason Hiner at TechRepublic has a great post on some of the home truths about working in the IT industry for those that are thinking of joining the profession. Those of you like me who have been in the IT industry for some time will recognize how accurate this list is, and maybe raise a wry smile.
Skype down for the count
Well I woke up this morning to Skype being off line. Did not think much of it till I tried to IM a buddy of mine and sure enough Skype is down. It’s not fully clear why. Skype is reporting it is a software issue, looks to me like someone pushed a update without doing the proper regression testing. Skype
Some people are Crazy on Domain Prices!
Several years ago when I started the PodcastAwards.com website I made the mistake of not registering one of the domain derivatives. It was bought later by a Chinese domain squatter. I offered a decent offer at the time to buy it and never heard anything back from the squatter.