February 5, 2007

Flirtomatic and Mobile Uber Alles

Some remarkable growth stats on U.K.-based Flirtomatic, a ... flirting service:There were 13m wap page impressions in January, up 3x on December levels and 10x on NovemberIn January over 40% of Flirtomatic’s usage came from mobile users on the wap...

The Best Post on Microsoft This Year

Roger Ehrenberg has up the best post you have read on Microsoft this year. He cuts through the crap on Vista, being appropriately cutting about its supposed merits, as well as about BillG's inability to sell them. Meanwhile he puts...

South Korean Spammers Send 1.6-Billion Emails

Check this: Two South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages in violation of the country's commerce laws, Reuters reports.The two men, one aged 20 and the other 26, are suspected...

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the Spam Problem

Rosencrantz: It didn't have to be obscene. I was prepared. But it's this, is it? No enigma... no dignity, nothing classical or poetic... only this, a comic pornographer and a rabble of prostitutes.Player: You should have caught us in better...

Weather Channel Finally Doing Something About the Weather

I've been calling for some time here for some more interesting companies in the general area of weather, traffic, etc. With that in mind, I was intrigued -- and more than a little envious, weather porn guy that I am...

IT Venture Investors Now Just Hanging Around

You can fill in your own joke at news that some heretofor IT venture investors have funded a company that does advertising on dry-cleaner hangers. I have to confess, however, that I'm impressed at how ballsy this is. Could you...

Earnings Guidance Crummy and Getting Crummier

The percentage of companies guiding earnings higher is at multi-year lows:[via Tickersense]...

LCD Panel Prices Continue Freefall

Fascinating stuff from iSuppli on the current LCD panel price freefall:Despite Production Cuts, Large-Sized LCD Panel Prices PlungeFebruary 5, 2007A major slowdown in demand for large-sized TFT-LCDs in December for all applications -- televisions, monitors and notebooks -- triggered a faster-than-expected fall...