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Motorola Hitches Its Wagon to a Star

"Gmail and Apps are only so-so" .. does the writer even know what he

Is Anyone Using Chrome?

I can't use Chrome for two reasons:

1) No right-click, View/Selection Source, which is extremely handy for looking at HTML
2) The "Find Text" functionality doesn't look inside "textarea"s

For a reputed "developer's browser", these are major omissions.

Microsoft vs. Apple: Monopolist vs. Innovator

Before Apple killed the "MacOS" and put 'Mac OS X" stickers all over NeXTSTEP, they did license their OS to OEMs for a while. That, among other things, is what was leading to their demise. Fortunately Jobs came back and killed that terrible idea, and their market share has either doubled or tripled depending on who you ask.

Dividend Paying Stocks: You Only Have to Be Lucky Once

Devin, have you heard of the investment strategy called value investing ? It is obvious why CSCO's stock price didn't increase much during the past ten years and you point it out yourself: it was overvalued in 1999 (P/E == 100 !). It just took 10 years for the market to eventually correct that overvaluation. I personally believe that, as of today, $100B is a fair value for the company (therefore it *still* isn't a good buy because according the strategy you should invest in undervalued companies, not fairly valued ones). My background is IT/CS/Networking, and yes I did research CSCO :-)

Conversely, I haven't looked at PG, but I bet if you looked at their fundamentals you would notice they were *not* overvalued to begin with, so it was logical for their market cap to keep increasing because it is growing.

I also don't think that investing is a matter of luck. At a conference in the 1990s, Warren Buffett refuted that argument by showing data that him and a group of friends following this strategy were able to consistently outperform the market, every year, for a period of 20+ years, with differences in their portfolios.

I should say that even though I have probably less experience than most people here, my first exposure to investment strategies has been value investing, and it strikes me as so obvious that this is the right way to invest that I wonder why not more people follow it.

Apple vs. Microsoft Vista: The Ad Budget Wars

Apple is only hypocritical if people are clamoring for them to fix a bad product, but they spend the money on advertising instead.

Microsoft is being treated unfairly if people are clamoring for them to fix a bad product, but they spend the money on advertising instead.

The only way a large advertising campaign is effective is if the message is backed up by reality.

Draw your own conclusions.