Confusion Says

You heard right, Intel officially announced there will be another price drop This means you can finally get that Intel processor slightly cheaper. The price drop was supposed to occur on July 20, 2008. Currently, it is July 21st, so I imagine we will soon be seeing the updated prices.

For a complete list of the processors being cut, see Intel’s official Processor Pricing Chart.

For those that don’t want to look, the processors affected include:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200
Intel Xeon X3220
Intel Xeon X3210
Intel Xeon E3110

You heard right, one of the largest phone maker is plummeting fast. They announced they will have a 97% drop in fresh profits for the second quarter of 2008. That is not great news for Sony Ericsson and owners of said phones.

Granted there is “something” going on in the economy, that is still a huge drop. Nokia for example, only dropped 61%. I imagine part of this big decline has to do with the iPhone and the like craze.

Hopefully these companies can stay up with the other makers and keep supplying phones.

AMD has announced that Chief Executive Hector Ruiz has stepped down from the chief executive position. The announcement is not a surprise considering AMD has posted losses for quite some time.

Based on what I’ve seen, it doesn’t seem like AMD is going to make a comeback at Intel any time soon. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if AMD went bankrupt with the way it is going at the moment. Hopefully they pick up soon to keep competitive with Intel. No competition means Intel can charge whatever prices they want.

The reason for this could also be the struggling economy, which is borderline recession.

Hopefully a new Chief Executive (Dirk Meyer) will translate to success for AMD.

Lately, I have heard a lot of buzz about Docstoc.com.

After checking out the site, I still have no idea what exactly their primary goal is. I understand they want to collect all the documents into one place, but I don’t see how they are going to do this. I do have to admit the documents they do have are very pretty and they are doing a great job collecting documents so far.

I have submitted a few things to the site for their Twiistup contest. I’m not sure what exactly they are looking for, but hopefully I did what I was supposed to do.

If Docstoc can remain popular and keep a large amount of documents coming in per day, I think it will excel in the business world.

The one thing I wish they would have though is more templates. Like for example, when I do a search for Resume I get a whole bunch of different people’s resumes. I would like just a template so I can do one for myself. After scrolling down the page you will see a few templates, but in my opinion, these need to be at the top of the page.

I really do hope Docstoc succeeds because it is an awesome service and I look forward to using it in the future.

Okay, I just go over the fact that there is an NFL Network, but now it looks like, as of January 1, 2009, there will be a MLB Network.

This is not a good idea. Primarily because eventually major sports events like the World Series, All-Star game, Home Run Derby, etc will only display on these specialized channels. I know it is only set to display 26 games this next year, but come on, we all know it will display more the next year.

If you are one of the lucky people that get this channel without paying, lucky you, but unfortunately, a lot of people are probably going to be left in the dust.

CEO and Founder of Mahalo.com, Jason Calacanis, has announced that he will no longer be blogging and will focus more on maintaining a more private, closer e-mail list with around 750 people.

I think Jason will come out of retirement, similar to what Brett Favre is trying to do with Packers.

I know I really enjoy reading Jason’s blogs and will truly miss reading his mostly daily blogs. Hopefully he finds another way to entertain the rest of us.

Good luck to Jason and I hope he finds a way to keep us all informed.

Wow…it has been a while since my last blog post, so I will just jump back in.

I am a very big advocate of RMA’ing tech products that are defective. Just the other day my graphics card decided it didn’t want to play nice anymore. I did an RMA on the card. Now I have to wait 2-4 weeks to get the card back. In the meantime, I can’t use that PC because it has Windows Vista Home Premium on it with no integrated graphics.

I now understand fully why people just buy a new component rather than RMA the card.

Anyone have any other experiences with RMA services they would like to share?

Hey guys and gals, I have been paying a lot of attention to the new search for a Mahalo Daily host.

I haven’t really found anyone that could replace Veronica Belmont. However, I just noticed this one and I have to say I am really impressed. Not only is she really pretty, but she has a lot of charisma in front of a camera.

She gets my vote for the next host of Mahalo Daily.

I just discovered an awesome new Search Ranking reporting tool named SearchRascal. This sounds like a really nice service, but my main question is how is this site going to be able to track all the terms people are constantly searching? If they can keep up with that, they will be fine I think.

Granted that this service is new, I really struggle to imagine how profitable of an area this will be. It is a good idea, especially since it appears that you can save your keywords and such, but how useful will this really be? I really do hope it becomes a successful service. I guess I’m just used to the way Alexa presents you with a nice graph of the traffic of the particular website, which I think maybe a good idea for them to do with the keywords that way you see how much traffic that particular keyword is getting. Alexa does not do this, so it seems like an area that can be exploited. My main concern is the impact of knowing how long you have been ranked a certain way on Google, Yahoo! or Windows Live.

As I have said before, I really do hope this succeeds, and I really hope Alexa gets some competition. We will see in the coming months.

I’m a very big supporter in people that do this type of event for cancer research. Paul Ridley, wants to row across the ocean, which would be 2,950 miles according to his website solo. In case you didn’t know, that is an insane amount of rowing and also many days of rowing.

The guy is not asking for much, he is asking for donations, which I believe people should donate. Anyone that is willing to sacrifice their time and effort in order to help better the lives of other people is a very good person in my book.

So please join me in helping support Paul Ridley in his quest to row across the ocean. It doesn’t matter what you donate, even if is it just a little. Anything would help him.

In case anyone is wondering, I am not at all affiliated with this person. Heck I don’t even know who he is, but as far as I’m concerned he is trying to help, so I will help him help.

Also, to get this more into the press view, please digg this story on Digg.