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Chip sales gain for a third month

“Global chip sales posted a third consecutive monthly increase in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported Monday. Worldwide chip sales totaled $12.5 billion in May 2003–up 2 percent from the $12.26 billion in revenue reported in April 2003 and a…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Emachines stocks its summer PC arsenal

OK, this is basically stealing! A PC for $399 is unbelievable. Sure, it’s not going to run Quake or Unreal, but still.. “Emachines is heating up its summer lineup with four new desktops. The manufacturer of low-priced PCs debuted the…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

RIAA Boycott Announcement

This landed in my e-mail inbox this morning. It’s a couple of weeks old but this is the first we have seen it. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14th, 2003 The People for Ethical Pricing of Music hereby announce a full…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

The RIAA strategy to sue their own consumers!

Most of you know I am quite passionate about the battle against the RIAA. I have always advocated there has to be a new business model that is fair to consumers like the iTunes solution apple has come up with.…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Don’t call no more no more hit the road Jack

In the first step to getting rid of those idiot Telemarketers calls, I have added all of my telephone numbers to the “National Do Not Call Registry” the process was painless and it took about 2 minutes, 1 minute to…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Spaaaaam?

I found an interesting article on InformationWeek.com that contains some emails by people who “[say] the spam problem is overhyped.” The crap spewing forth ranges from an pseudo-intelligent: “We think that spam blockers are a good solution to the problem.…

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Todd Cochrane
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