Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have […]
You likely know, unless you believe Apple advertising, that Samsung alone has ball crushing sales numbers. Samsung’s Android business is larger than Apples iPhone… and that is just Samsung; there are dozens of notable Android manufacturers so it should come as no surprise how much Android dominates. The iPhone 4 […]
Here is my ‘Desktop Color Printer Evaluation’ in Excel format. You can use it as a template for evaluating other printer products. It covers obvious items like printer cost and pages per minutes as well as less obvious but very important criteria like second paper tray cost and memory. In the […]
Do you need the default username or password for a router, firewall, switch… Below is a list of default passwords I found and cleaned up. If you know of any other default passwords, please add a comment containing that information at the end of this post. Vendor Model Version Access […]
Note that these numbers are the share of operating systems in use… not selling today. In other words, Apple looks like the big winner here when in fact Samsun and HTC are outselling Apple most months, thereby eating into Apples iOS overall market share. Android 42% (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) Apple […]
OK. OK… Sooo, here is my logic for even trying a Windows Mobile 7 phone: Windows CE 6.5 was great in 2004 but it just didn’t keep pace and by 2006 I had given up and moved my clients to Blackberry. That was a good decision. Apple is incapable of producing […]
“…On October 6, I made a dramatic, personal computing switch. After more than two months using the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook running Google’s Chrome OS, I didn’t go back to the Mac but to Windows 7. Mac OS X 10.7 — aka “Lion” — is major, but not only, reason. […]
“…According to ComScore, for the three months ending June 30, Android smartphone OS market share rose more than 5 percent — to 40.1 percent from 34.7 percent. By comparison, Apple share rose 1.1 percent to 26.6 percent. Research in Motion and Microsoft platforms lost share — 3.7 percent and 1.7 […]
NORTELS DEAD: What are you going to do now? It used to be so easy to choose a quality phone system that would last 15+ years with almost no maintenace, but then Nortel went Bankrupt. In 2006 Nortel (Bell Canada) had 82% of the North American corporate phone market, was huge […]
Intel recently released the new NM10 chipset which enables the newest Atom CPU’s, the dual core + dual hyperthread N550, which support 64 bit Windows. I already own an LG x110 with a very nice Atom 270 (roughly the same performance as the Atom 450) and I wanted to know […]
Lets start with the word NO… By: Jeff Bertolucci “… ABI Research says the netbook market will not be “gravely injured” by the iPad and similar tablets, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook. “This is a rumor perpetuated by Apple fanatics,” wrote ABI Research mobile […]
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TomsHardware.com http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/23/toshiba_hddvd/ El Segundo (CA) – The first generation of HD DVD players are priced 50% below their Blu-ray rivals. While it is no secret that the HD DVD camp is using a lower price to make up for feature disadvantages, a market research firm today reported that Toshiba in […]