Asha Smartphones Screwed; Will Die Soon

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone devices business means that Nokia’s new Asha $99 low-end smartphones for countries like India will die an inglorious death sooner rather than later. As part of the deal to acquire Nokia’s devices and services, Microsoft will get the Asha brand too. Asha Smartphones from Nokia Asha Doomed Nokia’s Asha […]

Microsoft Flushes $7.2B Down the Toilet

When two smartphone failures join hands, the end result can only be a mega-dud. Microsoft is shelling out $7.2 billion in cash to buy Nokia’s mobile phone devices, license some patents and get access to Nokia’s mapping services. The deal will swell Microsoft’s headcount from 99,139 (on June 30, 2013) to 131,199. Nokia Lumia Smartphone […]

Jobs Review – Incomplete Job

What Intel has done for the microprocessor, we’re going to do for the home computer. – Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the Hollywood movie Jobs Steve Jobs was a Class A asshole in his shabby treatment of people around him. Jobs was also an astute and wealthy businessman thanks to co-founding Apple and his role […]

Indian Asses get Warm Welcome at Sheraton

Holy Crap! Who’d have thought Indian asses would get such a warm, fuzzy welcome from an American hotel chain! Times sure have changed! Don’t get me wrong now. By asses, I don’t mean those poor quadrupeds that bray and trot uneasily beneath their heavy burden. I mean the literal brown asses of my fellow brown-skinned […]

Moto X Not a Game Changer

Considering Google paid a whopping $12.5 billion for the Motorola acquisition, I’m disappointed with the new Moto X smartphone. Launched yesterday, Moto X is the first smartphone offering from Motorola after it came under Google’s stewardship. Moto X should be available later this month or in early September in the U.S. and Canada for $199 […]

Fruitvale Station Review – Excellent

(For MadMax673) Life’s blessings are doled out so unequally. For proof, watch the Sundance 2013 winner Fruitvale Station and its real-life account of the cold-blooded killing of a 22-year-old unarmed Black man Oscar Julius Grant III at a BART train station in California by a trigger happy White cop Johannes Mehserle in the early hours […]

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