Monthly Archives: January 2012

Your daily (political) funnies

Posted on January 31, 2012 by David Forbes

Nabbed a couple of these from my sister. And a bonus cat poster!

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The value of Amazon’s KDP Select Program

Posted on January 31, 2012 by David Forbes

From The Corner, by David Kazzie: This is my guess as to how a book that couldn’t muster a sale a day became an Amazon bestseller, virtually overnight. Early Friday morning, the book continued to appear on the Free bestseller … Continue reading →

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Hollywood still hates you

Posted on January 30, 2012 by David Forbes

From AppleOutsider: These people do not get it: Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won’t just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They’ll have to wait 28 days to add … Continue reading →

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Today’s Star Wars funny

Posted on January 28, 2012 by David Forbes

Found this on Pinterest and thought it was cute. Enjoy.

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Motorola reports quarterly results. Good luck with the buyout, Google

Posted on January 27, 2012 by David Forbes

The Android phone business isn’t doing a whole lot to help Motorola Mobility, the company that Google is paying $12.5 billion to buy. They might want to rethink their purchase in light of the most recently numbers. They’re just terrible. … Continue reading →

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The iPhone, LTE, and battery life

Posted on January 26, 2012 by David Forbes

When the iPhone 4S was announced and was shown not to be LTE capable, a lot of the tech press and blogosphere were up in arms that this was going to damage Apple, since both Android and Windows Phone 7 … Continue reading →

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The fourth book in THE OSSERIAN SAGA

Posted on January 26, 2012 by David Forbes

I’ve been getting more and more emails from people asking when the next book is coming out (from as far away as Norway), and they’ve been coming with greater frequency, so I figured it’s time I responded publicly rather than … Continue reading →

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Apple’s incredible blowout quarter

Posted on January 25, 2012 by David Forbes

From Bloomberg: In looking ahead to the second quarter, Apple forecast revenue of about $32.5 billion and profit of $8.50 a share. That compares with average analysts’ predictions for sales of $31.9 billion and profit of $7.96 a share. Except for the … Continue reading →

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RIM founders to step down

Posted on January 23, 2012 by David Forbes

From the New York Times:  Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who made the BlackBerry a leading business tool but then presided over its precipitous decline, said they would step down on Monday as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of Research in Motion. … Continue reading →

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Morgan Freeman and a trunk full of suits

Posted on January 20, 2012 by David Forbes

I had this strange and vivid dream the other night that Morgan Freeman was the CEO of a company I apparently worked for. It wasn’t the company that currently employs me, however; I think it was some kind of technology … Continue reading →

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