Archive for the 'Busted' Category

Niklas Zennström and Tony Soprano

Monday, March 27th, 2006

My Swedish friends have allways been overly excited about Skype. As I have previously stated, I do not like Skype for two reasons: SIP (which also is a Swedish invention…) is a standard that handles VOIP better than Skype and because one of the founders of Skype was the founder of Kazaa.
Kazaa was a crooked […]

Serious Microsoft trashing

Monday, March 27th, 2006

The recent postponement of Vista has not been met with positive comments. There have been two hard hitting articles wondering if Microsoft has been starting to dig its own grave with the ever increasing Windows code base.
The New York times writes Windows Is So Slow, but why? … each new version of Windows carries the […]

Not always nice to be dug

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Guy nicknamed breathe, makes commercial spoof of Ipod Nano. Ends up with US $17000 bill for bandwidth after being dug by lots of people. Guy was able to negotiate bill down to $129 a month. And yes, the video is very well made.

Flying Windows Pigs

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Vice President Jim Allchin has admitted that Windows is broken. It is now so complex that not even Microsoft believes in crunching out new version every couple of years.
Getting the new file system, Winfs, to work is like getting a pig to fly according to Microsoft sources…

Can Microsoft get the pig to fly?

Sony Qualia no more

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

I was really saddened by the news that Sony no longer will develop Qualia products. Apparently the markets was not big enough for US $1 700 mini disc players and such.
The most desirable Qualia in my opinion is the 004. That is the US $ 30 000 1080p projector.
Sony will keep the US store […]

Jens of Sweden Bankrupt

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Jens of Sweden has filed for bankruptcy. The company will resume business under the new name of Jos. The move is not very unexpected. Several Swedish computer companies have been riding on high waves using big mouths and not so much substance and then crashed.

Jens of Sweden busted. Files for bankruptcy.