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Gateway TVs
Gateway fine-tunes TV strategy | CNET News.com: I still think Gateway is on a good track here. When I started writing about Gateway before, their stock was at $2. It's now at $3.99. Could've doubled my money. "Gateway, scrambling to reinvent itself in the midst of a difficult PC market, ...
Published: July 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Gateway PDA
Gateway talks business at CeBit: Gateway has plans for a new handheld: Gateway's new PDA will begin shipping in mid- to late July. The company fitted it with a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel, along with a 3.5-inch screen and dual Compact Flash and Secure Digital slots for adding modules ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 991
Gateway Shutting Down Retail Stores
I just heard a news report that Gateway is shutting down all of its retail stores. A Gateway press release confirms it. Not just some of their stores. All 188, on April 9.
Published: April 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 976
Gateway's Transformation
Gateway feels lure of consumer electronics: Here s more on the Gateway transformation I wrote about a few weeks ago. Moving toward a business model it calls branded integrator, Gateway is preparing to unveil a wide range of consumer-electronics products that work together and share content. It is also designing services ...
Published: June 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 973
Gateway: Coming to a Retail Store Near You
Gateway aims for retail shelves: And the "I-could-have-bought-at-$2" broken record is $5.04 today. "In recent months, Poway, Calif.-based Gateway has quietly started selling its PCs through a variety of new outlets including Costco warehouse clubs, the Home Shopping Network and U.S. military stores. Gateway is hoping the new channels will ...
Published: October 31, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 972
Plasma TVs Help Gateway
Plasma TVs ease Gateway loss: I don't mean to keep harping on about the good things Gateway is doing, but.... "Gateway reported a smaller-than-expected loss in the second quarter, thanks to plasma television sales and cost cuts." If plasma televisions alone can have a positive effect like that, then wait ...
Published: July 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 970
The New Gateway
Readying Gateway's post-PC future: Man, I gotta buy some Gateway stock: "Eighteen years after co-founding what would become of one most recognized PC companies in the history of the computer industry, Waitt is working as quickly as he can to shed Gateway's image as a PC builder. ... 'We're taking ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 959
Dell Starts to Mirror Gateway's Strategy
Soon: LCD TVs From Dell?: Again with the Gateway strategy tie-in. "Dell is expected to break into the consumer electronics market this year with the release of a line of LCD television sets, according to an analyst in Taipei. ... The move into the market for LCD TVs marks a ...
Published: September 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 937
Gateway's Serial Number Lookup System
While I'll always be a little bitter about Gateway leaving South Dakota, they have one feature of their Web site which I adore: serial number lookup. Somewhere on the case of your Gateway machine is a sticker with a 10-digit serial number. It starts "00." You can input this at ...
Published: September 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 933
Gateway Buys eMachines
Gateway shares climb on eMachines purchase : I think Dell will follow suit here, in an effort to get in retail shelves. The deal would allow Gateway (GTW: up $0.49 to $4.58, Research, Estimates), which sells PCs in cartons with cow-like markings through its own stores and the Internet, to ...
Published: January 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 928
Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights...
Gateway to consolidate Midwestern facilities: With this, Gateway is leaving Sioux Falls completely. This is too bad, as Gateway is a child of South Dakota. Gateway will close its Sioux Falls, S.D., facility this month, as part of its plan to return to profitability. Here's a statistic for you: in ...
Published: June 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 916
Email-to-RSS Gateway Service
MailBucket: I tried it, and it worked. "MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's ...
Published: October 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 882
Well, That Was Quick
Gateway Shifts Back to Personal Computers: Gateway's big consumer electronics strategy that we discussed here, here, and here is over. Gateway Inc. on Monday said it would return to its roots as a personal computer company, backing off on an aggressive strategy of expanding into TVs, digital cameras and other ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 854
What Makes a Good Computer?
Let's face a fact: computer manufacturers don't "make" anything. They assemble parts they purchased from somewhere else. This being the case, what makes a "good" computer? What's the differentiator between purchasing your computer from HP or Dell? Compaq or Gateway? I've come up with a short list, along with my ...
Published: October 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 841
Gadgets Trump Computers on the Bottom Line
Consumer Electronics Surge Ahead of Office Computers: More argument that Gateway's push into consumer electronics is a good thing: "The dichotomy underscores the harsher prospects for companies still tied to older computer businesses. Though pressure to cut prices is severe in most categories of electronics, companies riding the crest of ...
Published: August 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 781
Why Dell Rules
Dell the conqueror "The real reason for Dell's success is that the company follows a fundamental axiom: Don't do anything stupid. It sounds like an easy motto to adopt, but few of us, in business or in private life, actually heed it. Ever tried to uncork a wine bottle with ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 756
Hardware is a Bad Place to Be These Days
Let me play industry analyst for a second and explain why I think computer manufacturers are in deep kimshee: Hardware has vastly out-paced software. Besides gaming, there's no compelling reason to upgrade your computer. I'm still running on a 1GHz/384MB machine I had built for me two years ago. I ...
Published: May 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 720
PopHeadlines
The Big Announcement: PopHeadlines 1.0.0.1 is here!: Newsgator has competition. We didn't think it would take long PopHeadlines is a RSS-to-POP3 gateway. This is immensely useful. It allows you to receive posts from various RSS feeds in exactly the same way you retrieve your email.
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
Dell Changes Its Name
Please just call me Dell: Like Gateway, they're positioning themselves to branch out. "Dell is changing its letterhead. ... Dell shareholders on Friday voted to accept a motion by its board of directors to change the company's name to Dell Inc. from Dell Computer. The change is effective immediately."
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Speaking of Overpriced Gear...
...did you know that you could spend more on a power cord than you would for a brand new Gateway 510 System? Or throw in another $55 and you could get a brand new eMac. Yes, it's true. $744 for a friggin power cord. A "Cardas Golden Reference Power Cord ...
Published: June 10, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 681
Spam Filtering By Reputation
The Value of a Good Name: This is sort of a global whitelist, really. "Your reputation precedes you. This is the idea behind a new weapon in the war on spam and e-mail overload from IronPort Systems: reputation filtering. The IronPort C60 Messaging Gateway appliance controls the flow of e-mail ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
PC Sales Surge
PC sales may be coming out of doldrums: PC sales are up between 14% and 20% this year, depending on who you ask. The numbers are encouraging to a sector that has been languishing for the past three years, battered by the dot-bomb, a flagging economy and a mountainous inventory ...
Published: November 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
Tablet PCs vs. Smart Display
Windows Powered Smart Display: Home Page: Here's something that I haven't understood until now: what I think is a Tablet PC, may just be a Smart Display. Tablet PCs are complete machines processor, RAM, hard drive, etc. A PC with a Smart Display, just has a remote monitor. All ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Ready for Some Downtime?
A researcher in Milwaukee has discovered a nasty exploit of the TCP protocol that could give hackers a way to knock out entire segments of the Internet's backbones. The vulnerability was discovered by a Paul "Tony" Watson, a computer researcher in Milwaukee, who found a way to remotely reset network ...
Published: April 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Apple Stock Split
It's almost time to buy AAPL again. Apple Computer on Friday declared a two-for-one stock split, its first since June of 2000 and only the third in its 25-year history as a publicly traded company. Apple shares, which have surged more than four-fold in the past 17 months, climbed nearly ...
Published: February 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 644
BootDisk.com
Here's a lifesaver of a Web site. I was given an old Gateway 2000 P5-60 to rebuild for a local charity. Problem was, it had Windows 95 loaded from five 3.5" diskettes, so its BIOS had no CD-ROM support. I couldn't get the thing to boot from the Windows 98 ...
Published: November 26, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Computer Manufacturers Dropping Out?
Computer makers face slowdown, firm predicts: Gartner is saying that three of the Top 10 computer manufacturers will be gone in two years. I pick Gateway as one of them, given that its workforce has been cut 92% in the last three years. Three of the nation's top 10 personal ...
Published: November 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree
On the heels of their Mac mini reliability survey, Macintouch today published the results of the PowerMac G5 reliability survey. While the numbers aren't as good as for the mini, they are still good; of the 6817 respondents to their unscientific web poll, only 10.17 percent reported having problems. Anyone ...
Published: June 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
Fedora Core 1
I'm writing this entry from my new Red Hat Fedora Core 1 machine. It's very nice. Install was as simple as Windows (simpler, probably), and it's very functional right out of the box. It had network connectivity right away, and I can browse all my Windows shares without a problem. ...
Published: April 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 613
Wither the Television?
Am I the only one whose television and DVD player is getting neglected these days? Lately, I've taken to watching both TV shows and DVD movies exclusively on my computer. I don't have a really great set-up either. My monitor is a Gateway VX900T a 19-inch Trinitron that I ...
Published: January 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 607
Windows Home Server
Windows Home Server: I must have totally missed this. It was announced in January. Introducing Windows Home Server, a new way to simplify how you keep and share your family s photos, videos, and music. This smart hub lives in your home and connects all the important people in your life ...
Published: August 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 595
Dell's Pre-Installed Software Mess
[H]ard|OCP - Dell Dimension XPS 400 Evaluation: This is a review of Dell's "gaming PC" line -- the XPS. The review turns into an huge rant about how much crap is installed on a Dell out of the box. These pop-ups were so annoying, and seemed very much like a ...
Published: December 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 572
Someone Owes Me An Operating System
I'm a little frustrated with Microsoft and a couple computer manufacturers tonight. You see, I'm owed an operating system, and these companies are conspiring to prevent me from collecting. I had an NT4 server. It was an old machine, and we replaced it earlier this year with a very fast ...
Published: September 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 572
Wherefore Art Thou, Schema Validation?
One kink I ve recently noticed in a number of scripting languages geared towards producing web apps is the utter lack of support for XML Schema. I m surprised by this, since a good Schema validator can save a lot of code when used properly. For those who may not be familiar ...
Published: July 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 562
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