SuperSite Blog Daily Update: December 8, 2010

Good afternoon. Another late start, still catching up. Plus all the Google stuff this week has thrown me for a loop. At least something is happening.

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Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein says Palm isn't in a "game over" situation now that HP owns the company and its technology. But maybe he just hasn't been around HP enough yet. "HP didn't have a mobile strategy," he said. "A company like HP needs to be in control of its own strategy." The problem, of course, is that Palm didn't have a mobile strategy either. Palm has good technology. But the company was clearly pretty rudderless.

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Like its co-conspirator Microsoft, market leader Intel seems curiously unable to foresee and set industry trends. So it's following other smaller, more innovative companies instead. Case in point: The netbook and tablet markets, which Intel has responded to by just now creating a new business unit that it calls the netbook and tablet group. At Intel, that's called leadership.

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Netflix is adding Disney/ABC content to its instant streaming service.

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Love Angry Birds? Own an iPhone 4? Well, you're batting .500 at least. Now grab one of these fun Angry Birds cases and improve your reception in the process.

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Microsoft writes in to say Exchange 2010 Turns One! Read more at the Exchange Team Blog.

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Apparently not everyone is as excited about Google Chrome OS as (I think) I am.

Discuss this Article 6

MrDiSante
on Dec 9, 2010
I don't see what there is to be excited about Chrome OS. If it were really a fundamentally new approach to OS's then yeah, I'd be excited. From everything I've heard though, it looks like yet another Linux distro, except this one only runs the Chrome browser. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll take my Windows 7 or Ubuntu, or whatever your cup of tea may be and when I need a deep and integrated cloud-based OS, I'll fire up my browser of choice. Now excuse me while I open Visual Studio, Eclipse, Starcraft or anything else I damn well please on a machine that isn't an iPad plus a keyboard and minus even the apps.
Spidersens
on Dec 9, 2010
HP didn't have a mobile strategy? Hmm... Remebering when Fiorina ruled, one of their phrases was, you know, "From palmtop to nonstop." Hard to believe.

Anyway, do you have any plan to make the default font a bit bigger? Plus, I like your "daily update" type posting.

Spidersens
on Dec 9, 2010
Oh, one more thing. It would be nice, for you and for us, if all comments in this site will be arranged into a single "recent comments" stream.
GoodThings2Life
on Dec 9, 2010
I'm sorry, I'm just NOT at all excited about Chrome OS. It's redundant and unnecessary.
planetarian
on Dec 9, 2010
Yeah, not excited for chrome OS in the least.


In the meantime, this is frustrating:
I go to the article page via the RSS item. it tells me i need to login to comment. I click login, provide my info, and submit. i'm logged in, but it takes me to the site homepage rather than the article i logged in from. if i use the back button or go to the URL directly, it still doesn't think i'm logged in. only after logging in and then manually navigating to the blog entry through the site, will it recognize me. ~_~





de Silentio
on Dec 9, 2010
I'm less excited about the OS itself and more excited about the hardware. Right now we are using netbooks in a multitude of labs as "Internet machines". Namely, they get on the Internet and Google Docs.

However, a serious limitation is the smaller 10.1 inch screen. A 12-inch screen on a netbook would be a welcomed addition, even if it is only a webbased machine (since that is what we use them for anyways).

Hopefully Google can keep these things cheap.



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