Archive for May, 2001

more sony

Tuesday, May 15th, 2001

More Sony - Sony announces they will align with Torvald’s Transmeta for chips in their notebooks. Sony is aligning with another Microsoft enemy, RealNetworks, to supply streaming media playback on Playstation gaming consoles. And now AOL and Sony are teaming to offer Internet access on the PlayStation. Sony has overcome inventory problems […]

ouch!

Sunday, May 13th, 2001

Ouch! - Scott McNealy directly insults potential customers for choosing Microsoft instead of Sun, using his typically colorful drug-dealing metaphors. I wonder if Scott realizes that the world’s first corporations (and the foundation of British world power) were collectives set up to transport and sell such drugs as tea, tobacco, rum, and opium. […]

sony bank?

Sunday, May 13th, 2001

Sony Bank? - Sony is getting into banking now. It seems pretty clear that the three biggest Microsoft competitors in the next few years will be (in no particular order) Sony, AOL, and IBM. But this move by Sony seems pretty strange to me. Trying to convince an entire nation to put […]