Amazon MP3 Customers Don’t Come from iTunes, But I Did
Market research firm NPD Group issued a report today explaining that Amazon MP3 is growing but not taking away customers from Apple’s iTunes. It seeRead More…
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Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City
Wow. There’s plenty of buzz surrounding Blockbuster’s offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster’s reasoning is full of the usual business jargon: cRead More…
The Digg Paradox: How Digg Creates the Problem It Solves
When I first heard about Digg I was quite excited. Digg is a site where you can submit articles, pictures, or other content that you think is interestRead More…
Amazon Giving $50 Credit to Its HD DVD Buyers
I purchased my HD DVD player with 10 movies for $174 way back in November. Today, to my surprise, I received the email below. This is much better thanRead More…
New Study on Digital Music is Outdated Before Released
Ars Technica has the scoop on a “new” study which shows how Apple’s iTunes is “widening its lead in the digital music market at the expense ofRead More…
It’s Comcrapstic! My Comcast Tech Support Story
I know this will seem like another “me too” post after the well publicized Comcast story at TechCrunch, but I actually wrote about 95% of this a cRead More…
Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVD by End of 2008
Sony CEO Ryoji Chubachi knows something we don’t. At a press conference a few days ago, he pointed out Sony’s plan to increase Blu-ray market sharRead More…
Comcast Rewards You for Complaining Publicly
Good ol’ Michael Arrington of TechCrunch had an interesting weekend in which he learned how to minimize the classic ISP runaround (i.e., the customeRead More…
Help Me, Commissioned Salesperson, You’re My Only Hope
I read through an article on CNET yesterday that got me fired up about something I’ve had on my mind for the last three years – the unfortunate, yRead More…
Newsflash: Digg Admits It’s Rigged and Just a Game
Digg has had its fair share of criticism. But the idea that it’s slow, bloated, outdated, gamed, and policed has all been hearsay. But now, in an exRead More…