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Happy Tech New Year 2009

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | Author: admin

Taranfx.com Wishes all its Esteemed readers a very techy new year ahead.
HAPPY TECH NEW YEAR 2009

Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | Author: admin

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.

With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players wonâ€™t save it.

16 months ago I called the HD war for Blu-ray. My bad. Who dreamed they could both lose?

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Delusional Sony exec Rick Clancy needs to put the crack pipe down and really look at the market dynamics.

In a nutshell: consumers drive the market and they donâ€™t care about Blu-rayâ€™s theoretical advantages. Especially during a world-wide recession.

Remember Betamax? SACD? Minidisk? Laser .. Read Further »

Category: Bluray, Sony | Tags: Bluray, HD, hddvd, HT | View Comments

Sony: What went wrong (and is still going wrong)

Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | Author: admin

Sony on Tuesday outlined its restructuring plans amid a downturn in consumer electronics, bloated inventory and weak demand for its products. The larger question is whether Sony will ever get its unwieldy management structure right.

First, the headlines. Sony is restructuring to boost profitability. As part of that move, Sony plans to eliminate 8,000 electronics jobsâ€“out of 160,000. That sum equates to roughly 5 percent. If you toss in subcontractors Sony is cutting 16,000 positions. Sonyâ€™s goal is to revamp manufacturing sitesâ€“closing two in Franceâ€“and save 100 billion yen by the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010.

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Category: Sony | Tags: bad, Sony | View Comments

Countdown to Windows 7

Friday, December 19th, 2008 | Author: admin

Thereâ€™s talk that Microsoft has signed off internally on the Beta 1 Windows 7 bits. Word is the build number of what goes out to testers will be 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400.

What do all those digits mean? And when will testers actually get their hands on the code?

Windows power users and long-time beta testers probably need no explanation, but the rest of us undoubtedly could stand some schooling. Hereâ€™s how it works:

6 = Major NT OS version number .. Read Further »

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Microsoft releases its first iPhone app. We welcome Microsoft to iPhone.

Monday, December 15th, 2008 | Author: admin

Remember that speech where Steve Ballmer quoted “iPhone is a loser” ?

If no, checkout the video below. Just watch the way he laughs at the iPhone.

Question: What is Microsoft?

Answer: Something that bothers betrays and jeorpadizes consumers and industry. It aint Steve ballmer’s fault, its in Microsoft’s blood to be a loser all the time. Criticizing the best things and then following the same, thats what is called as “Microsoft”.