See here. That imbecile who got himself covered with Zune logos says he’s pissed about how much the Zune sucks and so he’s quitting the club. Money quote: “I am done. I have had the Zune since day 1 and have noticed little improvement. … I am in the works of figuring the best way… Read more »
From a reader: Please return to mercilessly lampooning Jonathan Schwartz. You have a strong following inside of Sun. We don’t like MLP, either. No one believes this guy has the right strategy. Unfortunately, he has the Board buffaloed…has them convinced we merely have execution issues. If we execute his strategy more effectively (devalue any remaining… Read more »
“Problems abounded,” and “the Web site was sluggish,” and on and on and on, plus 13 uses of I, me, my or mine this week. See the whole angry GoatScreed here. Money quote: “In my tests, using two Macs, two Dell computers and two iPhones, I ran into problem after problem.” If only Apple had brought Walt in early on the… Read more »
Kara Swisher of AllThingsD wonders who will replace Kevin Johnson as head of online stuff at the Borg. She’s got a list of about a hundred people. That’s a famous Wall Street Journal technique — when in doubt, guess as many people as possible, thereby increasing your odds of getting it right once the company… Read more »
See here. Kevin Johnson, a sales guy who rose to run the Borg’s Windows and Web operations, is de-borging and will become CEO of Juniper Networks. Johnson (above left, dancing like a halfwit with a fellow Borgtard at the Vista announcement) not only crafted the Yahoo merger strategery but he also oversaw Vistaster. Talk about a… Read more »
Yeah, I know. These videos suck. And yet the doofballs keep making them. And other doofballs keep watching them. Just doesn’t seem fair to me that Fake Steve shuts down, while the blendertards just keep booming, along with icanhascheezburger and Perez Hilton. Groan. Don’t get me started.
Just did a quick videocam intereview with a guy named Justin who has a show called TalkingheadTV and he was asking me which iPhone apps I like best. Um, well, uh, I had to admit that I’d only tried a few. Flashlight (stupid but it’s only a buck and possibly useful someday); Facebook, AIM, Tetris,… Read more »
Portfolio magazine is to the media world what Sam Palmisano is to technology — you know they’re still out there, somewhere, if only because you’re pretty sure that if they’d gone out of business you’d have read something about it, yet you never seem to see Portfolio anywhere or hear about anything they’ve said or… Read more »
Woz apparently got himself into the front row at a taping of “Price is Right.” Sad stuff. Much love to William for passing along a link to the original version on Macenstein.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Eleven months after being ousted from the company he co-founded, former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has struck out on a new career — the billionaire tech guru is delivering mail for the United States Postal Service. “I’ve had a lot of lucky breaks in my life, and it’s time to give… Read more »
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