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Comment: What matter (Score 1) 312

by P00rSpy (#37200276) Attached to: What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals
Yes 100$ is an impulse buy for most, but I suspect that quite a few of the buyer where also expecting the tablet to be able to display a web page, read email, play a few game like angry bird and read book, and this product is capable of all of this Most of the buyer also assumed a tablet with the HP name (and for some Palm) previously priced at +500$ can't be that bad! Now there's a bounty to put Android but as far as I am concerned if I put my hand on one I will use it as is hoping that it can also play avi and stream music/movies, all the rest is already there! Let's hope the marketing guru will understand that people are expecting to pay the same price for a tablet than for a netbook or quite close, they will pay premium maybe for bigger app store or for steve jobs signature...

Comment: Re:Price Matters (Score 1) 368

by P00rSpy (#37156782) Attached to: HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices
I agree 100% Apple fan have a long history of paying premium for their stuff. I do wonder if that sales was genuine tho... Neither the less it's still an interesting proof that price is important, especially if the seller has no history in regard to what you are buying (Again I think apple is different, they have people who would buy a suitcase sized laptop if Steve was telling them it's better this way)

Comment: HP Sales may have been a hack ? (Score 1) 368

by P00rSpy (#37156370) Attached to: HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices
This sale could have been made by disgruntled employee of WebOS Seem like the website had video replaced, they could have well used this access to send the email asking to make this huge sales! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBCOLFUge_k&feature=player_embedded Precentral.net is reporting: Looks like someone was able to get one final jab in at HP before getting the boot. HP will no doubt be firing an entire division of webOS hardware engineers in the process of killing off webOS devices. As the video says, if you're looking for an excellent employee, look to the people that will be affected at HP. There will be quite a few great workers looking for a job in the near future. Either way this sales will make history, I do not remember something like this before!
Businesses

+ - Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs to US

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phobos13013
phobos13013 writes "NPR is reporting Indian software maker Wipro is outsourcing positions to a development office opening in Atlanta, Georgia. Although, it sounds good for US job growth, although the implication is that firms outside the US appear to be dominating more and more in the global economy, even from developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Similarly, salaries of IT professionals world-wide are projected to stagnant or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today. Likely another reason companies like Wipro and Cognizant see it possible to outsource to the US and still remain competitive."
NASA

+ - NASA plans for Earth Impactors 1

Submitted by TopSpin
TopSpin writes "Flight International reports that scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have developed designs for an Aries V launched array of asteroid interceptors wielding B83 nuclear warheads. The hypothetical mission for these designs is based on an Apophis sized Earth impactor 2-5 years out. According to NASA, "Nuclear standoff explosions are assessed to be 10-100 times more effective [at deflection] than the non-nuclear alternatives analyzed in this study (pdf).""
Spam

+ - CAN-SPAM Plaintiff Ordered to Pay $111,000->

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Eric Goldman
Eric Goldman writes "Everyone hates spam, but that doesn't mean every anti-spam lawsuit is meritorious. In a recent ruling, a federal court in Washington state ordered James Gordon, a notorious anti-spam plaintiff, to pay the defendants $111,000 for attorneys' fees and costs incurred defending Gordon's lawsuit. The court says "Plaintiffs' instant lawsuit is an excellent example of the ill-motivated, unreasonable, and frivolous type of lawsuit that justifies an award of attorneys' fees to Defendants.""
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Sci-Fi

William Gibson Gives Up on the Future 352

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the what-chance-do-the-rest-of-us-have dept.
Tinkle writes "Sci-fi novelist William Gibson has given up trying to predict the future — because he says it's become far too difficult. In an interview with silicon.com, Gibson explains why his latest book is set in the recent past. 'We hit a point somewhere in the mid-18th century where we started doing what we think of technology today and it started changing things for us, changing society. Since World War II it's going literally exponential and what we are experiencing now is the real vertigo of that — we have no idea at all now where we are going." "Will global warming catch up with us? Is that irreparable? Will technological civilization collapse? There seems to be some possibility of that over the next 30 or 40 years or will we do some Verner Vinge singularity trick and suddenly become capable of everything and everything will be cool and the geek rapture will arrive? That's a possibility too.'"
Data Storage

+ - IP rights? Server hosting site hijacks content->

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blanchae
blanchae writes "Over at The Ranger Station (www.therangerstation.com), there is a battle over who owns the rights to the Ranger Station's online forum. The Ranger Station owner was unhappy with the service of OnlineSolutions.org and changed server hosting. Online Solutions have hijacked The Ranger Station's forums stating that they own the databases and content and started their own Ranger Station forum under www.therangerstation.org. This doesn't seem right to me and I want to know who owns the content on a hosted server?"
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Microsoft

+ - Microsoft to test ad-supported version of Works->

Submitted by krelian
krelian writes "Works is the Microsoft's basic spreadsheet and word processing software. Microsoft now plans to offer a free but ad supported version of the software through OEM's.
"Unlike Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which are delivered through an Internet browser, Microsoft plans to pre-install Works on computers and display advertisements stored in cache. The software normally retails for $39.99. When a user connects to the Internet while using Works, that cache of ads will refresh, said Melissa Stern, a Microsoft senior product manager in the Office group.""

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