Year: 2010

‘MUG Event Calendar’: Prosoft Engineering, LaCie, more

‘MUG Event Calendar’: Prosoft Engineering, LaCie, more

Posted by | Oct 11, 2010 | |

October is a busy month on “The MUG Event Calendar” — and none will be busier than the one coming up.

Jennifer Bell of Prosoft Engineering will be in Illinois to their products, while both LaCie and Ian Schray of GadgetTrak will stop at an Oregon group. Kurt Schmucker of Microsoft will travel to Texas to talk about the latest version of Microsoft Office, and a group in Australia will look back — but no too far back at Apple’s September Event.

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Greg’s bite: Vista Mobile 7, Microsoft dud

Greg’s bite: Vista Mobile 7, Microsoft dud

Posted by | Oct 11, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

In the extremely high stakes competition in smart phone operating systems, Microsoft’s new Mobile OS appears to be a stone loser. This is for a number of indisputable reasons.  

The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon, and the efforts of various hardware companies and cell phone carriers rallied to support Vista 7 are likely to be a doomed and completely wasted effort. This will certainly end Microsoft’s presence in the mobile market, which includes both smart phones and slate computers.  

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People unhappy with TV services; Apple, here’s your chance

Posted by | Oct 11, 2010 | , |

If Apple wants to pull out its big guns and make a serious move with the Apple TV for the living room, here’s their chance. Residential television service customers are notably less satisfied with the cost of service, compared with 2009, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 U.S. Residential Television Service Satisfaction Study (http://www.JDPower.com).

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Walmart reportedly to start carrying iPads this week

Walmart reportedly to start carrying iPads this week

Posted by | Oct 11, 2010 | , |

Target and Amazon are now carrying the iPad, and Walmart looks to be next, reports “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/09/target-and-amazon-have-the-ipad-is-walmart-next/?source=yahoo_quote). Rumors say the giant retail chain will begin carrying the Apple tablets this week and could have them in 1,000 stores before the end of October.

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