Just when you thought it wasn’t going to get any stranger… Say it isn’t so! Are they running out of the correct wrapping paper for the McDoubles, at McDonald’s [MCD]? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Are they continuing the cost-cutting even for the already-cut Double Cheeseburgers– er, McDoubles?
March 2009
We’ll be exploring this emerging news about a possible acquisition of Sun Microsystems [JAVA] by rival IBM [IBM]. And it is shocking news, to be sure, but would it be a bad thing? Sun and its Competitors Sun has been languishing in the stock market for a few years at this point. Its competitors, such [...]
Later today, the announcements regarding the iPhone OS, version 3.0, will be made during an Apple [AAPL] media event. While there may be plenty of new features added to the operating system, and the accompanying products that rely upon it, the biggest yet most fundamental of features that is expected to be announced is the [...]
As several of you know, we were following the Starbucks [SBUX] iTunes Pick of the Week hiccup over Dido’s “Quiet Times” song. It seems that now even the Sony [SNE] Music Dido site has picked up on the story, announcing that the Pick of the Week for the “Quiet Times” song is available. Which is [...]
Yes, that’s correct: Pi Day. Some folks call it “π Approximation Day”, but close enough, right– although there actually is another day that is considered Pi Approximation Day as well. This day is set for March 14, 2009, according to a US Congressional resolution to that effect. N.B. For more reading: Pi Day (Wikipedia)
Yesterday, while I was busy minding my own business running errands, I was hit with a feeling of hunger that was fortuitous enough to have occurred near a Burger King [BKC] store. So, I just happened to have some coupons for a variety of their premium sandwiches. I was not in the mood for the [...]
Remember Palm’s [PALM] Treo Pro? If not, you’re apparently in good company. The smartphone was initially rolled out to a very hum of fanfare, being essentially an unsubsidized GSM device. Now, however, it comes available as an AllTel [VZ] subsidized phone, with plans to offer Sprint [S] service in the hopefully near future. Obviously, unlike [...]
Yesterday, Palm [PALM] and Sprint [S] revealed more information about the Palm Pre and its service plans in a Webcast, although still no definite release date or the phone pricing (subsidized or unsub, either). However, the release window of “sometime in the first half of 2009″ is presumably still more-or-less intact. Also, the Pre is [...]
A Little Bit: A few hours ago, Time Warner [TWX] announced the ousting of CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant from the helm of AOL, LLC, replacing them with Tim Armstrong, lately of Google [GOOG] as one of its SVP’s. The tenure of Falco and Grant has been marred with a tremendous amount of [...]
As I was traveling around among the several Starbucks outlets in my area, I picked up another Dido Pick of the Week card to see if the SKU-to-code association in the iTunes database had been fixed yet. And, lo and behold, yes… or is it? There are two possibilities here: All of the redemption codes [...]
