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• A comment In reply to: "Crave giveaway of the day: Amazon Kindle"

  November 25, 2009

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• Amen. I mean, gosh, look at how open Apple's hardware is. No homogenization there, whatsoever ;-) In reply to: "Microsoft employees assault customers (with a dance)"

  November 18, 2009

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• F***ing hilarious! In reply to: "Dolly Parton endorses IE 8 Web Slices"

  November 13, 2009

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• Apparently you've never used any of MS's search products on a handheld. They work surprisingly well. In reply to: "Verizon, Microsoft in mobile-search deal"

  January 7, 2009

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• I question this study for multiple reasons.
  
  1) Data gathered from mobile phone warranty company? I suspect most BBs are purchased by companies. Companies don't buy warranties; they return devices to the vendor and tell them to replace it or they'll take their business elsewhere
  
  2) Anyone else notice that, in the third graph, there are no 'other' problems reported for the iPhone? I find this hard to believe. Bad data in, bad data out
  
  3) I have ~ 60 BBs in the field. We're a heavy construction company and our guys dig trenches, build substations, climb telephones, etc. The biggest issue we've had with the hardware (one user only) is worn out PTT button. I've seen a couple of 7520s that have been run over by 3/4 ton pickups and still work. Hardware aside, it's easy to control software issues when you control the software that can be installed on the device like Apple does
  
  4) Call quality issue #s. Unless they can tell me what percentage is related to the device and what percentage is related to the network, don't bother including them
  
  5) 'touchpad/screen/keypad' area. That's the most important area, because if there's a problem here, the device is nearly unusable, and the iPhone, by far, is the worst In reply to: "Study: BlackBerry has twice failure rate of iPhone"

  November 11, 2008

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• Interesting changes. One feature that I miss in WMP11 that was present in 10 was the ability to select music to play (by album, artist, etc.) directly from the docked mini-player without maximizing the app. Hopefully that made the cut... In reply to: "What's new for audio in Windows 7?"

  October 29, 2008

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• No, 'IE' is not saying anything about security, the author of the article is. There are no quotes from MS employees or representatives. Whether you like MS (products, services, etc.) or not, their attempt at emulating security features of other browsers is, at least, a step in the correct direction. In reply to: "IE 8 beta gives other browsers a run for their money"

  August 28, 2008

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• You hit the nail on the head. In reply to: "Bono blamed for unreleased U2 songs on Internet"

  August 18, 2008

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• I think your post just showed how sometimes the 'IT guys' are smart, since you seem to be an idiot. In reply to: "SF mayor gets codes to hijacked city network"

  July 23, 2008

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• Jim,
  
  I hope this article was written 'tongue in cheek'. Browser updates/changes, web tools, social networking? Management, with assistance from IT, makes decisions regarding what software is required to run our business. We prefer our workers to work, not experiment with the latest/greatest. When we have to support software that is not vital to our business processes, it takes time away from the thing we're supposed to be doing: supporting hardware and software that runs our company most profitably. If users want to play, they can do it at home & not on my company's dime; I'm here to pick up a paycheck every two weeks and, in my opinion, when they're not working they're taking money out my pocket. In reply to: "It's official: Your IT department doesn't cope well with change"

  July 9, 2008

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