Consumers and businesses are forced to buy folded fluorescent “CFL” bulbs and forbidden to buy incandescent. CFL bulbs were promised to last 11 years and be more environmentally responsible, but the opposite it true: they cost the environment more to make, contain hazardous chemicals that require special recycling, and last less than one year. Legislative changes are needed to force the manufacturers to comply with expectations for teh CFL environmental safety and 11 year life, and to provide consumers with a rational way to recycle expended CFL bulbs and receive replacement of CFL bulbs that last less than the promised 11 years.
Category: General Business
Protecting Your Web Site from Loss of Business
The Godaddy DNS outage was caused by internal error, not a hack. We should specify name lookup via more than one DNS company so that if one company is unavailable, the other will still work and access to our web sites will be unaffected by a single point failure.
Mainstream Tablet Prices Dropping to $149
I have said for some time the primary and secondary price points for the glut of tablets that will become available this fall will be $149 and $249 with a distant tertiary point at $400. Here is another manufacturer who is adjusting their SRP to become salable. There is nothing wrong with the Nook Color:…
Microsoft on target this time
Refer to http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/microsoft-surface-fuels-fear-and-loathing-in-pc-land-199671 Microsoft is moving forward with it’s Surface series of tablets, which will change with the way businesses are already changing: in other words, I feel that Microsoft is getting back in touch with reality and adapting. However, most other manufacturers are refusing to change, which is likely to kill them. This is the same hubris…
The Outlook is Dead: Long Live The Outlook.COM
Whether the death of Outlook will matter, or not, remains to be seen: people may simply accept the improved Hotmail.com renamed to Outlook.com