• Fujitsu rolls out mini tablet with GPS.
  • Netflix will stop selling DVDs.
  • Developer of the iPOD quits Apple.
  • AT&T doing the bandwidth CAP too.
  • Frozen mouse cloned.
  • Dell asking people to take a no-pay vacation.
  • Windows 7 will boost solid-state drives.
  • Europe market shares up.
  • The ink vendors and printer companies seem to be ripping off the public.

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  1. B. Dog says:

    Mice? I’m thinking big — clone Wooly Mammoths!

  2. Improbus says:

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    Printer ink a rip off? No way dude!

    [sarcasm off]

  3. Glenn E. says:

    So instead of one frozen mouse, they’ve got two? Wow! Don’t we really need a way to have less mice? Ask Australian farmers.

    So I’m wondering if there’s a way to hack the printers’ software to allow them to use up that unused ink? Or is this one of the few bits of code, burned into printer firmware? I don’t know which way printer ink travels, up or down. But a possible solution would be to inject a liquid that was heavier or lighter than the ink, to fool the sensor. Just so it doesn’t mix with it and dilute the ink. If the printer simply “weighs” the ink cartridge, then taping a coin to it might work too. I’m sure there are people hacking this, as we read.

    Netflix will probably sell their used DVDs to public libraries. Taxpayers are always the final suckers to get screwed out of their money. Or Walmart will repackage them as new.

    Dell apparently took a page from the US Steel industry. Don’t lay workers off, force them to take unpaid vacations. I got that one during lean Steel years. And then finally the layoffs. The unpaid vacation ploy saves Dell from paying Unemployment Insurance.

    The problem with making an OS that optimizes a storage device is, who’s really going to notice any improvement? Geeks may, but the general consumer won’t unless it’s a huge difference. And they have two kinds of drives to compare. Price and capacity are still going to be the deciding factors of any storage device. But Microsoft could cheat and make the newer drives easier to access, while “holding back” the legacy drives access times. Yeah, that would work.

  4. Rich says:

    I like it! A frozen mouse would do less harm in my pantry. I hope they breed like mad and displace the mobile ones.

  5. James Hill says:

    Inventory of the iPod is married to the VP of HR, who is also stepping down. That’s one way to keep yourself out of trouble at the workplace.

  6. deowll says:

    Your clone is not you in a deal like this. It might be a twin born at another much later time but it isn’t you.

    Not good for Apple. Some people might be willing to take a few weeks off at Dell.

    I’m surprised they actually put the ink inside.
    It suggests the ink doesn’t cost all that much.

    Their highest end package is listed as for people that download media. If you sell it like this you better watch how you chop people off if they can go to cable or other options.

    Somebody is going to sell these people what they want.


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