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    blah-blah
    Feb 14 03:42 PM
    Under The Radar News - Thursday [view article]
    I thought it was closer to 30% - it is indeed an embarassment

    How hard is it to attach an extra heat sync to the unit before shipping it?     Reply
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    digivision
    Feb 14 03:28 PM
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    Under The Radar News - Thursday [view article]
    xbox another lousy badly engineered piece of technology by Microsoft
    15% failure rate is an embarrassment .. i can only imagine if something like this would happen to Apple right now the stock would be in the single digits LOL
    anyway I think right now MSFT is a good buy if it goes down to $25-26     Reply
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    Tom B
    Feb 14 10:45 AM
    Under The Radar News - Thursday [view article]
    "Microsoft (MSFT) is seeing Xbox 360 shortages in the U.S., as it failed to anticipate strong post-holiday demand."

    Demand, or failure due to overheating? How are warranty returns handled, typically?     Reply
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    Eli Hoffmann
    Feb 05 10:26 AM
    Under The Radar News - Monday [view article]
    Thanks John! Appreciate the feedback. Reply
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    johnmorrison
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    Feb 05 09:55 AM
    Under The Radar News - Monday [view article]
    Eli you seem as accurate as Mr. Manning, good job! Reply
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    MSmailbox
    Feb 05 08:31 AM
    Under The Radar News - Monday [view article]
    In this post-NWO (New World Order) environment, it pays to be optimistically cautious. Seeking out values, in proven companies that are heading in new directions, will beat out trying to find the Googles in a haystack. Revitalization will be the watch word... Old men, whose eyes are still alive, will lead the pack, so long as they are not trampled by the hoards of young blindmen.

    Bear market? Bull market? Such terms are meaningless, when the frequency of their occurance, exeeds that which we can humanly keep up with... As always, the best time to invest is now.     Reply
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    vboring
    Feb 04 11:30 AM
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    RealNetworks Strikes Major Deal With Yahoo! [view article]
    Real Networks seems to have the opposite motto from Google.

    instead of "never be evil," they have embraced "always be the asshole"

    no content that requires Real Networks software is worth the pain of interacting with these guys.     Reply
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    No Moss
    Jan 26 06:13 AM
    Broadcast TV's Demise - More Fiction Than Fact [view article]
    Well, Mr. Rayburn is quite right, despite the fact that he doesn't know the difference between compliment and complement. (Sorry, I'm an English teacher.) The Internet is much more of a threat to magazines and newspapers than it is to broadcast TV, at least in the immediate future. We haven't caught up to bandwidth problems for regular TV, much less for high-definition TV. It's one thing to download an occasional show, and quite another to shift the medium to the Internet.

    Newpapers and magazines, well, I don't see how they can survive the Internet. The content will survive, but the medium is obsolete. I wish it weren't, but it's a matter of currency (being current).     Reply
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    squiggy
    Jan 25 10:12 PM
    Broadcast TV's Demise - More Fiction Than Fact [view article]
    come on, this article is about as shallow analysis as i have ever read on this service. broadcast is this seasons newspaper, there is no denying the trajectory. local broadcast stations cannot find enough local ads to fill thier space, has the breathless media analyst looked at the recent balace sheets of the pure play broadcasters. national netowrks are looking at tremendous audience fragmentation (yes you can brag the superbowl still gets a 100 million viewers but is anyone honestly going to watch american gladiators past month three). and last i checked mr zucker thins he is really a cable company and wants to bust up the upfront charades. advertisers are not going to keep spending. and without ads there is no broadcast tv.

    but mr. breathless media guy keep pretending that your burp is noteworthy, its advertising not your viewing habits that will determine the future of this business and the ad buyers -- who are probably not much more cerebral than you but will eventually get hte joke, dont care that you channel surf in search of the latest piece of visual popcorn. perhaps you should spend time thinking through your pieces with some more rigour.     Reply
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    Eli Hoffmann
    Jan 24 06:04 PM
    Under The Radar News - Thursday [view article]
    Fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out! Reply
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    Long-Short
    Guy
    Jan 24 05:59 PM
    Under The Radar News - Thursday [view article]
    This is great. Can you fix the BusinessWeek link? Reply
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    yourfilled
    Jan 08 01:19 PM
    Viacom’s Double Whammy: Killing MTV and Losing MySpace [view article]
    Back in the buggy age, I was one of the first marketing people to work for MTV. My name is Neal Weintraub and back then MTV stood for Music Television. Viacom has killed the brand and the company is run by a guy who rather watch his fish tank than television. Viacom and Redstone are great short sells. And that makes me sad, because many people made it a great brand. i was proud to work there....too bad it is a "chocolate mess."

    yourfilled@yahoo.com     Reply
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    Marcel
    McSweeney
    Dec 28 05:59 PM
    Did Viacom Choose Microsoft to Punish Google? [view article]
    Web 2.0 standards? Web 3.0 standards will be cable TV being replaced by Internet TV on a mainstream scale. It will then become fashionable to attack all those companies stuck in their Web 2.0 standards world.

    btw: it's heels not heals     Reply
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    bill west
    Dec 20 08:09 PM
    Did Viacom Choose Microsoft to Punish Google? [view article]
    Lee Iacocca (sp?) said it best- "lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way"......

    Seems Viacom will be doomed to stay in the past along with Mr. Softee. So Google will continue to gain market share and others will dig in their collective heals and then complain about being run over by the stampede of other embracing the new Web 2.0 standards......

    tooooo bad soooo sad.....see ya later Viacom.....     Reply
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    Tom B
    Dec 20 08:46 AM
    Did Viacom Choose Microsoft to Punish Google? [view article]
    Looks like Dauman may have the same problem Zucker (NBC) has: his ego is thousands of times bigger than his brain. It vexes me that in both cases, the respective Boards of Directors seem asleep, or AWOL. Oh well. Reply
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