HP with a new Captain

HP's New Low-Profile Boss: ", calling directly to low-level salesmen to check on deals "

Hope he's got more balls than Carly. :-)

Finally got it: Apple iPod shuffle!

Fancy little player finally came to my hands. Definitely worth it's 99$. It came packed in a stilysh little green box - and it's funny, how Cuppertino boys are able to make so simple things so fancy. Even this little music player is "insanely great"- you just have to love it.

I'll not write a review, since Cnet guys already did it (Apple iPod Shuffle review by CNET Reviews) and I have to agree with them.

-LCD screen? -I don't need it, as I'm using shuffle mostly in my car - connected through cassette adapter which works perfectly fine.



If you're wondering, which model to buy, here's my view:
- 512 MBs is more than enough to fit your music. That's about 120 songs, which comes to around 8 hours of music! -When will you listen to all that? I myself will cut it to half - 256 megs and leave some space to be used as flash memory.

- I'd recommend 1GB model only to people who want to fill shuffle with a lot of music (which they'll never listen to anyway) at once - and not work on playlists all the time. Also good for users who consider having an 8+ hours of music plus a 512MB of available disk storage.


All in all, iPod shuffle is a great buy. Stylish, small, simple and usable. Just like you'd expect from Apple. Way to go, Steve!!!

Green light and look back at 2004

Factiva

Commitee on Foreign Investments in the US has finished the review of IBM's sale of PC division to Chinese Lenovo Group. Green light to finish the deal.




IBM Annual Report 2004 released. Big Blue is becoming a $100-billion corporation. Best positioned player in the IT industry. With clear path of Innovation for every clients' success.

What makes Apple's products "insanely great"

Online Extra: Commentary: Apple's Blueprint for Genius

Research. Understand customer's needs. Teamwork. Think "out of the box". Design. Make it an icon. Only one more ingredient to make it a "wanted dead or alive" product: Steve Jobs.

Does anyone want to be HP CEO?!

Handicapping the HP Hopefuls

In my opinion, they need a candidate who has guts to take over and fix the mess that's left at HP. And to bring back the pride to demoralised employees, management and the pissed-off stockholders.

It will be a tough job with a lot of sleepless nights. And some mind-shifting decisions to be made. Especially the ever repeating issue: to split or not to split?

Be careful what you write, they just might read it!

Are Bloggers Journalists?

Lately, we are seeing more and more people losing their jobs and being held responsible for their blog postings.

My advice: take your blogging serious. It's not a game. Respect your contracts and don't spread anything you wouldn't with your company e-mail address.

If you can't help yourself, as being one of those pushed-down-need-to-speak-up employees, make sure you carefuly examine options on staying totaly anonimous. -khm, almost impossible! ;-)