Potential Disaster

Time Warner Cable recently backed off of their plan to enforce a 40GB cap on customers in the Austin/San Antonio area after negative publicity made them think twice.  However, they haven’t abandoned it entirely yet - instead insisting that they would continue to “educate” their customers about bandwidth usage and continue on the path of [...]

I read in a New York Times article (also linked from Slashdot) that the universal remote would be replaced by the smart phone. The argument is that there are too many gadgets in today’s home that require remotes for a single universal remote to keep up.  The only hope it seems is a cell phone with [...]

I recently saw a video that was prepared by Microsoft’s business team to give their partners a look at what the next 10-15 years will hold for businesses and consumers. It struck me as odd that their vision of the future involves everyone giving up on their regular computers and switching over to using computers [...]

Microsoft has had a worse than expected quarter and because of their low earnings are having to lay off 5,000 employees.  This should be an omen to Microsoft that they need to focus on their core strengths and get out of money losing markets like video games and music players.  The XBox, last I heard [...]

Traditionally, a new President gets a grace period where his appointments are voted on and passed, the major legislation that he ran on is allowed to come up for a vote and generally is supported by both parties, and everything stays pretty civil.  This time however, the Republican base is already looking to butt heads [...]

I recently read a story on Digg about Microsoft’s new program SongSmith being a possible challenger to Apple’s GarageBand in the digital music creation arena. Having watched a few demos of the product, all I can say is that GarageBand has nothing to worry about. In fact, none of the programs that are designed for creating [...]

I was watching the BBC America news this morning and they ran a story on how the current F1 governing body was looking to make a rule change to award the driver’s championship to the driver with the most wins rather than the most points in an effort to make the races more exciting by [...]

Ask any die hard Windows user what the problem is with Windows and many of them will tell you that Windows itself is fine if you know how to use it, the problem comes with users who do not know how to keep up with their system and who do not know how to follow [...]

This Thursday, Turkish ground forces infiltrated into Iraq in order to carry out strikes against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.  The story has been reported on news sites such as CNN and The Washington Post, but that isn’t the main point that I took from those stories, the main point was that a major military offensive, [...]

Microsoft has recently put up an unsolicited offer to buy up Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars in a bid to increase their online search and advertising presence according to various news sources.  Yahoo, who is second to Google in search and ad revenue would instantly give Microsoft a more competitive standing in the field of [...]