Commerce

Jimmy Buffet is the Man

Jimmy Buffet tired of getting 10 cents on the dollar walked away from his recording label last year and started his own. “Buffett picked up his marbles and walked away from the game last year — putting out an album…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Dak is Back!

Back in the 80’s there was a catalog sales business called DAK Industries run by a guy named Drew Kaplan. He went out of business, but is back.” Yes, I remember DAK and had bought many items from them. Here…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Maxtor releases 320 GIG Drives

Maxtor is releasing a new 320GB hard drive but they are not very confident their drives are reliable: Effective Oct. 1: Maxtor will SHORTEN their warranty on OEM drives from 3 years to 1 year. IBM and Western Digital continue…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Sour notes

Salon has a great article today worth the 2 minutes to do the full read. “The legal crackdown hasn’t squelched MP3 trading — it’s just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Money Saver tip from SlickDeals

Amazon has the 20″ DS2 Boy’s Bicycle for $33 with FREE shipping. Apply coupon code CHNKBKAMZNLT for $5 off. [Source SlickDeals] This isn’t a tech item but heck I am sure some of you out there have a boy that…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

TiVo In the News

Great story about TiVo on MSNBC today. I think I am going to get me one of these boxes so when I am traveling I can come home and get caught up on my favorite shows. [Source MSNBC]

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Todd Cochrane