BRUCEB NEWS
Statement To The Analy High School Speech & Debate Team
From: Nate BerlsTo: Team MembersDate: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:29 PMSubject: STATEMENT TO THE ANALY HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM We are witnessing the largest civil rights movement in history. 50 states and 18 countries. You are living through it now, and you might...
HP DESKJET PRINTER MAKEOVER
HP spent a billion dollars recently to do a complete makeover of its Deskjet printer lineup – redesigning the entire line from scratch to ensure that HP continued to hold onto...
THE WIRELESS WORLD
The rollout of wireless is going faster than I would have thought possible. Prices have kept dropping – a Linksys wireless access point/router costs only $79 now. And I’m finding...
ALIENWARE
Alienware is a relatively small PC manufacturer that’s on a roll lately. They hand-assemble PCs and tune them for performance with high-end components, then put them in very...
TERMINATOR 2: MAXIMUM HARDWARE
There’s yet another release of Terminator 2 on DVD, the “T2: Extreme DVD” in a cool embossed metal box. One of the features you’ll see advertised is an ultra-high resolution...
LINUX UNDER ATTACK
The Linux community is quickly realizing that Linux faces a serious threat to its very existence. SCO Group owns various copyrights and patents for Unix, and it has filed...
COMICS BY E-MAIL
Looking for an interesting kid present? Think about a subscription to comics by e-mail. Ten bucks buys a year of daily e-mails from one of the largest comics syndicators. You...
CELL PHONE CONFUSION
If you’ve shopped for cell phone service lately, you’ll sympathize with the points in this article: the offers and services from the competing carriers are so complex that it’s...
WAL-MART TAKES OVER THE WORLD
Every so often some business kowtows to Wal-Mart by changing the cover of a book or magazine or releasing an alternate version of a CD with family-friendly lyrics or the like....
THE GREAT REBATE SCAM
Like most people, I’ve never liked rebates, but I take it seriously - I will pay more if that’s what it takes to avoid a rebate. Slate has a good article about the rebate game –...
DOWNLOAD CAPS ON CABLE BROADBAND
Time Warner has begun tiered pricing for cable Internet access in a few areas. The idea is that a cable subscriber chooses a monthly download limit – 40Gb, for example. If you go...
TIME MATTERS 5.0
Time Matters and Amicus are the market leaders for law office case management. Time Matters just rolled out its first new version in two years, version 5.0, along with a new...
COREL ACQUIRED BY VECTOR CAPITAL
Corel announced today that it has agreed to a takeover bid by Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based company that already owns a substantial stake in the company. At $1.06 per...
AMAZON, APPLE, AND MUSIC
Amazon has been eyeing the market for downloadable music for years, wondering how to jump in. The issue isn’t technology, it’s the business model, availability of content and...
HARDWARE WARS
Dell continues to dominate the computer market, of course. Here’s what some of the other players are doing. Sony just announced its summer lineup, loaded with multimedia...
FIBER TO YOUR HOME, AND OTHER PIPE DREAMS
The phone companies – Baby Bells and Verizon – got a lot of press today for their announcement that they’ve agreed on a “standard” for rolling out fiber to your homes, enabling...