AMD Gains Marketshare

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Hardware: Intel Loses Market Share to AMD - from slashdot.

It was just released today that Intel's market share fell to AMD in the fourth quarter of 2005. From the article: "Sales of Intel-based desktop PCs fell 22.3 percent during the fourth quarter, according to Current Analysis. As a result, sales of AMD-based desktops took the lead during the pivotal fourth-quarter holiday shopping season. AMD chips were found in 52.5 percent of desktop PCs sold in U.S. retail stores during that period.

Minolta to stop making film based cameras

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Hardware: Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market - from slashdot.

Japanese photographic equipment maker Konica Minolta has announced plans to withdraw from the camera business. Konica Minolta said the market had become too competitive, and added it would sell its digital camera business to Japanese electronics giant Sony. From the article: "Its decision to ditch the camera business altogether includes the cessation of its colour film and photo paper business, in which it has trailed Eastman Kodak of the US and Japan's Fuji Photo Film. Instead, it plans to focus on products such as colour office photocopiers and medical imaging equipment." Slashdot just recently reported on the decision by Nikon to go completely digital.

Exasperation.

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JOEL. damn you for being so persistent. if it were possible to kick your ass over the internet, i believe i might. lovingly of course. but with much aggression. i'd say that i'd play you womano i mano in some game, but i'd inevitably get my butt handed back to me. so next time i see you...there will be a sweet smile on my face. but don't be deceived. once you tried to steal my chocolate cake. you almost lost a finger. now you've really gone and messed with me.

PUNK.hehehehe.

The Essence of a Geek

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The Essence of a Geek

ZDNet has a feature on The Essence of Geek, which looks at the rise of the geek (and the fact that everyone's turning into one), in the years post .com boom. From the article: "For a few years, an interest in computers and technology became inextricable linked with wealth and power -- geek became chic. Technology companies suddenly became the focus of the kind of attention that had been reserved for the music or fashion industries. In the UK TV makers even went so far as to create a hip series, Attachments, based around the antics of a tech start-up.

Read the Article: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

Article Blurb courtesy of Slashdot.