As of Friday, the odds are 8:1 AGAINST the Seahawks going to the SUPERBOWL! If Paul Allen’s Seahawks win the Superbowl will this stimulate Steve Balmer to go all the way and buy the UW Huskies? CLICKME to get current odds. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Steve Balmer’
January 10th, 2013 - 8:07 am § in Misc.
Maybe Balmer Would Buy the Huskies Too?
Is Microsoft Buying a Basketball Team? The media report that the Sacramento Kings are being sold to Chris Hansen and Microsoft MSFT +0.56% chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ballmer is said to be a devoted pickup basketball player with a reputation for having mean elbows. But, that is not all! St[...]
January 8th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in The Ave Scene
CES: Balmer NEEDS to hire someone else to impersonate himself
Qualcomm’s opening keynote today started with three young actors of the age that’s “born mobile” — those whose phones give them “the entire world in our hand.” Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs is only the third person to fill the evening spot before th[...]
November 19th, 2012 - 12:10 pm § in Misc.
WTF is happening in Redmond?
Steven Sinofsky: Windows division head leaves Microsoft This is worrisome. The man responsible for Windows 8 and the paradigm change that is Surface is leaving Microsoft. Sinolfsky payed the Stevc Jobs role as he demonstrated Microsoft’s Surface tablet at an event in Los Angeles this yea[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 10:02 am § in America, The Ave Scene
What Mitt and His Ilk Do with $250,000,000
Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Players for More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art Mitt Purchases and Election for $100,000,000, Highest Price Ever Paid to Buy An Election. The tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the o[...]
October 7th, 2011 - 9:11 am § in Misc.
Apple on Fire: At $199 this thing is going to sell!
UPDATE: More details on what Applesauce can and can not do, Seattle Times. Bottom line. Amazon’s Fire is directed squarely at media. For $200 it replaces any need for another device to read books, read pdfs, watch TV, or play games. Apple is in trouble. There are also hidden design elements [...]
MS needs some applesauce on its Surface!
Niw that I have a Microsoft Surfce, I am pretty ticked off about the ads for the thing. The ads are dumb! MS seems to have two sort sf ads out there … one that may really be for pastel seltzer water and one some kind of thin and alpha shaped desk toy. It is […][...]