Amazon has lashed out against my home state of Connecticut, cutting all their affiliates in the state, because Connecticut told Amazon to play fair. While local merchants are required to collect and pay state taxes, Amazon was happily undercutting them online, using its affiliates as mules to deliver some of those sales. The state recently — Continue reading »
Google Vs. Netflix
📆 May 9, 2011
youtube, google's video site, is beginning to beef up its roster of movies, adding some big productions too, like inception. netflix shouldn't worry quite yet. youtube's list isn't as extensive and its pricing not as competitive. but when google starts to muscle in on a market, it won't be wise to ignore it either. Google’s — Continue reading »
Internet Explorer 9 - Why Microsoft Must Break up
📆 March 24, 2011
I saw some news today that the Firefox 4 download numbers beat those of IE 9 by a large margin. And that even with IE 9 getting rave reviews for being built from scratch and being speedy, while Firefox 4 came out of beta way too late. Why is Firefox so popular and Google Chrome — Continue reading »
Oracle Collects on Sun
📆 August 13, 2010
Back when Oracle acquired Sun, you really didn't think that it was going to continue with the free open source model, did you? Of course not. This is Oracle, and Oracle is all about business. It has expensive products and even more expensive support and maintenance terms. And if someone like SAP starts to offer — Continue reading »
Apple iPhone 4 Free Cases
📆 July 18, 2010
Apple had finally enough and it addressed the antenna Death Grip issue (Antennagate) last Friday. In response to Apple's press conference promising free cases for all iPhone 4 users, I put together a tiny survey below to poll people's sentiments on that. Non iPhone 4 owners are welcome too. Ok, I'm also testing Google Forms — Continue reading »
BP Dividends in Jeopardy
📆 June 2, 2010
As stated in my previous post, that 9.2% BP dividend yield was just wishful thinking. Now comes the word that lawmakers want BP to suspend any dividend payments because obviously the company has gotten one hell of a liability to deal with and paying the shareholders instead of the victims isn't going to sit well — Continue reading »
BP's Nightmare
📆 June 1, 2010
There seems to be no end in sight for BP's plight. The oil well is still gushing, the stock is bleeding, and there's word of a criminal investigation. BP's stock got hammered today to the tune of $20 billion. It also doesn't help that BP is a European company and Europe is still grappling with — Continue reading »
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