Nobody Does It Better. Not Bond, Engadget!

Guess What DAY it IS?

Here's A HINT:

BLACK FRIDAY

Some hints of what to Get for
Black Friday From ENGADGET:

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Link: http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/BlackFriday/

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Vizio hacks prices on select HDTVs prior to Black Friday

by Darren Murph, posted Nov 26th 2008 at 7:03PM

We've already seen that a number of retailers will be offering Vizio HDTVs on the cheap this Friday (or Black Friday, as the in-crowd calls it these days), but the company is stealing a bit of their thunder by announcing cuts from the top a few days early. Vizio's 19-inch VA19 LCD will be offered for just $199.99 at Costco through December 7th , while the 32-inch VP322 plasma (pictured) will go for $437 at Walmart starting today. There's also the 37-inch VW37 LCD HDTV for $499.99 at Costco, the 32-inch 1080p VOJ32LF LCD for $559.99 at Sears and the 42-inch 1080p VS420 for $698 at Sam's Club. If none of these sets float your boat, check out our condensed guide to Black Friday: HD style for something more to your liking.

(From Engadget Site cited above)

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Black Friday
DEALS:
http://dealnews.com/black-friday.html?ref=google_event-blackfriday_v01&s_kwcid=black%20friday%20sales|3059732803
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That SYNCING FEELING

The Morning WINGMAN Blogger Routine has been Updated To:

The New iPod Touch Mantra: SYNC and CHARGE!
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The Daily Ritual for Touch Newbies is Sync Up the recent downloads of Gadgets and Charge the Device for the Next Day's Usage.
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Every Year It Starts Earlier and Earlier: Black Friday

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Black Friday Store Openning Times:
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At Couponing.about.com have a listing for Black Friday Store Oprnnings:

Link Here: http://couponing.about.com/od/blackfridayshopping/a/storehours.htm


Wingman Shopping

Jailbreaked in Less than 2 days!!

Faster than you can say, "How did they do that??",
iPhone Dev Team has broken
the just released iPhone 2.2 OS!

Now That is Quick.

How-to-Link is Here: http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/23/iphone-dev-team-does-it-again-pwnage-tool-22-jailbreaks-iphone-22-os.html

Try at Your Own RISK!

Wingman, updated iTouch to 2.2 Saturday.

About Cars:

About Cars:

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Auto Crisis in America
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ON THE HILL

Unconvinced Congress Tables Auto Decision
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/20/ST2008112003657.html


Meanwhile at Silicon Valley:

The Ironman Car

Kevin Rose, Head honcho at DIGG.COM, iss thinking about the Audi R8

Link: http://digg.com/autos/Audi_R8_Test_Drive_Iron_Man_Car?t=15173723

The Ugly Tesla No.6
and Jason Calacanis

Link: http://www.mahalo.com/Jason_Calacanis

At the LA Auto Show Honda FC Sport Concept | LA Auto Show Honda: Quantum of the Grotesque

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/automobiles/autoshow/honda-fc-sport.html?em

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Moto head
Wingman
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Magazines, Print Media and The Internet

Life's Amazing Photo Archive
on View at Google

From GadgetWise NYT:

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/lifes-amazing-photo-archieve-on-view-at-google/

"It’s the Life magazine collection, some 10 million images all together, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Following the deal between Google and the keepers of the Life archive, a vast chunk is now up on line at Google Image Search."

Search tip
Add "source:life" to any Google image search
and search only the LIFE photo archive.

For example: computer source:life

Link: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
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And PC Magazine will print it's Last
Paper Issue in January 2009,
going to a strictly Online Publication.


Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/business/media/20mag.html?em
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Black Friday Ads LEAKED on the Web
Check Out Walletpop.com:

Black Friday Roundup is Back: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/11/19/black-friday-roundup-is-back-best-buy-target-staples-and-more/
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Wingman Talking.
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"Just When We Got Cozy with Quad Core..."

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Dell brings up the 80-core chip
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Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10101987-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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Yesterday, Michael Dell, at SC08, in a conference in Austin Texas on high-performance computing, he talked about a fast track toward 80 cores "Real-Soon-Now".

Upcoming...

Intel's Dunnington processor will have 6 cores, Sun Microsystem's "Rock" processor will have 16 cores, while the Larrabee graphics chip may soon reach 32 cores.

It boggles the mind.

Wingman.
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Also on CNET: YANG'S Travails
Yahoo's CEO Steps Down.

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10100739-93.html?tag=rtcol;newsNow
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SoCal ABC7 Firestorm coverage

Southern California Firestorm News

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Added abc7.com
to the News Roll on Right Panel
Also, a click here sends you to
Website
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/index
The Logo goes there too.
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My Twitter Post has a Link
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News IS important.

Wingman


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I've been Touched by the Hand of Apple???

iPod Touch (the real Name)

Last Saturday, I went off to Best Buy, reached deep into my pocket and pulled out my Credit Card and told the clerk to give me one of them "Touchy" things.

She brought out a box slightly bigger than a vertical deck of cards.


I said, "Is that it?"

She nodded.

She could tell I was expecting a little more for my money.

"How about a carrying case?"

I stammered, "Yeah, that might not be a bad idea."

Out the door and home to power up this baby.

After close to thirty years in computers, I felt like I felt when I bought my first Radio Shack Color Computer in the 80's.

I felt like a newbie, Exploring a Brave New Frontier.

I didn't even have a PC or Apple computer at home to charge it with. I was thinking I could do that at work on Monday, if I could wait that long.

I couldn't.

My son fired up an old Windows XP that was gathering dust in the "Computer Room".

We both had migrated after years of Windows frustration, to Linux and the Fedora Distro.

After a few hours of work with the XP workhorse of old and cleaning up enough space on the drive to import my music and video collection.

And the iTunes program.

The iPod Touch, that the clerk said had at least 25% batter power, was less than that and I plugged in the usb connector to charge this baby up.

The sucker is a bona fide technological marvel. A perfect marriage of technology and usability.

No wonder these things are flying off the shelves.

The reporters tell us 7.1 Million iPhones sold in the last quarter.

More to say, but I've got to get back to playing with my New Toy.

Wingman, a kid again.

Saturday night, I went to sleep at 3:30 in the morning...

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Phoenix, the Mars Lander, says its "Long Goodbye".

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Phoenix, the Mars Lander, says its "Long Goodbye".
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The Sad "Goodbye" Letter at the following GizMoto Link.

Bring a Hanky...

Link: http://gizmodo.com/5082385/this-is-my-farewell-transmission-from-mars
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Goodbye Mars Lander, Hello "Quantum of Solace",

the Perfect James Bond Movie,

according to GizMoto's Review:
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Link: http://gizmodo.com/5085712/quantum-of-solace-is-the-perfect-bond-movie
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Got to See for Myself:
Wingman.

Get Ready for a Blacker than Black Friday!

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Get Ready for a Blacker than Black Friday!

Link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/12/apple_may_launch_most_aggressive_black_friday_sale_yet.html
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Bad "Economic Issues" is forcing many retailers to take matters into their own hands, and began Pre-Black Friday Sales last weekend. Walmart and K Mart had "Black Friday, Saturday and Sundays" with big cuts in Flat screen HD tvs, laptop computers and Playstation 2 and 3's special sales.

Even Apple is expecting rival PC vendors will be offering deep-cuts on the "REAL" Black Friday and Apple will counter with deeper-than-deep (read:"blacker than black:) cuts on a number of Mac models.

Let the Sales Begin...

Is there a way to keep track of these Black Friday Deals?

Glad you asked. Yes, indeed there is, at these Web Sites Dealing with the Up-Coming Black Friday Sales:
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http://bfads.net/
Some items listed under Newest Activity:
110 items to RadioShack
65 items to Sports Authority
53 items to Ace Hardware
30 items to Sam's Club
36 items to JCPenney
6 items to Staples
56 items to CVS Pharmacy
47 items to Rite Aid
58 items to Gander Mountain
8 items to Tommy Hilfiger
23 items to Dell Home
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http://www.blackfriday.info/
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

Even Google News Results for "Black Friday Sales". Remember to click reload to update the results.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=finding+black+friday+sales&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=4&ct=title
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Wingman.

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Sony's New 3rd Gen eInk eBook.

Sony PRS-700

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Sony's New 3rd Gen eInk eBook.
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from MobileTechReview.com
Link: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/gadgets/Sony-Reader-PRS-700.htm
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Available for $399.00 at Amazon, and sporting a spiffy Touch-Screen and SD memory slot, the next-gen Sony eBook was Almost a Winner.

The down side, according to reviewers is the Text Contrast, which is worse than the previous model PRS-500, which many complained about. The added touch-screen layer didn't help things...

Too bad Sony; and you seemed soooo close.

No Oprah for You!

Wingman.

Something extra:

Number 20: Moonbow

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Unusual Weather Phenomena
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From RefDesk archive: 20 Amazing and Unusual Weather Phenomena

Link: http://listverse.com/science/20-amazing-and-unusual-weather-phenomena/

The Price Is NOT RIGHT!

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OhMama!

Inauguratiion Tickets Selling Online for $5,350 and UP!

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Link: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/10/feinstein-urges-web-sites-sell-scalped-inauguration-tickets/

The Price Is Not RIGHT!

Wingman.

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To Windows 7: Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?

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To Windows 7: Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?
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From Microsoft Watch:
Link: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/windows_7/is_seven_for_real_or_just_more_empty_vista_promises.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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The Underpinings of Windows 7 and the New Sheriff in Town.


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Microsoft Reaches for Lucky Seven (Video from PDC last week)
Link: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/podcasts/microsoft_reaches_for_lucky_seven.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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Testing Windows 7 beta at Home, so far seems snappier, Wingman.

He's Back! Bond, James Bond

From IMDB:
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830515/
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On
Friday, 14 November 2008 (USA),

Quantum of Solace continues

Ian Fleming's "Best Known Secret Agent",

From Wikipedia:

"The James Bond film series are spy films inspired by Ian Fleming's novels about the fictional MI6 agent Commander James Bond (codename 007). The franchise remains as one of the longest running film series in history. EON Productions have produced twenty-two films between 1962 and 2008. In addition, there are two independent productions and an American television adaptation of the first novel. Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman co-produced the EON films until 1975, when Broccoli remained the sole producer. Since 1995, Broccoli's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael G. Wilson have co-produced them.

Six actors have portrayed 007 so far."

From CBS Sunday Morning:
Ian Fleming and James Bond:

Link: http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/fleming/home.html

The CBS Sunday Morning Show revealed the Real Source for James Bond's Name:

A book about Birds that Ian Fleming had in his collection.

Wingman, James Wingman.

Not quite the same, huh.

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Black Saturdays at Walmart and Kmart

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Walmart, Kmart announce Black Friday-sque deals
for days Other than Black Friday.

LINK: http://www.engadget.com/
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A few retailers are offering what they've dubbed "Black Friday-style" price cuts for tomorrow -- Saturday, November 8th. Walmart's got a sweet 15.4-inch Compaq CQ-139WM (with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive) laptop for $298, in addition to a PlayStation 2 bundled with a $30 WalMart gift card for $129, and a PlayStation 3 with a $100 gift card for $399. Over at Kmart they're offering up a rad 32-inch Sylvania LCD HDTV for $439.99 (they usually go for for $550).

Deal or No Deal?
Wingman

The Smart Phone Race Heats Up!

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The Smart Phone Race Heats Up!

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/07/iphone-kicks-blackberry-second
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Nokia is still No. 1, but the Apple iPhone has kicked the venerable Blackberry into third Place.

List maker Canalys estimated that global shipments of smart phones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008. Which means smart phones now represent around 13 per cent of the total mobile phone market, up from 11 per cent last quarter.

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Wingman will start testing Windows 7 Beta, this weekend (along with Fedora 10 Beta).

Mars Lander, slowly dying on Mars.

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Mars Lander, slowly dying on Mars.

Link: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn15136-dying-mars-lander-to-enter-groundhog-day-state.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
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NASA's Phoenix lander may spend its last days on Mars in a 'Groundhog Day'-like state, performing the same sequence of weather measurements over and over again.

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What's This??? An iPhone ROBOT?

What were Issac Asimov's rules again???
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/iphone-robot-is-ambulatory-still-wants-physical-keyboard/
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Intel's Core i7, just around the corner,
like November 17th.

Distributor prices around $562 and $999.
This is "Nehalem" we're talking about here...

Link: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40061/135/
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Wingman...way out.

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Obama Wins

"Your Victory..." Obama.

CNN TV capture
pictures link to CNN.com

Obama Wins
LA Times Lead


Electoral Count:
Obama: 349
McCain: 147

Link LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/
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Change Has Come
Washington Post Lead

Link Washingtonpost.com: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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Obama wins historic US election
BBC News Lead

Link BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
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November 5th Newspaper LINKS

Wingman
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One Word: VOTE!

On Google page November 4, 2008.

Found this on NEWS.CNET.COM:

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Technology Voter Guide 2008
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LINK: http://news.cnet.com/Technology-voter-guide-2008---Mapping-Congress-voting-records/2009-1040_3-6247360.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0

Best Scores:

Highest-scoring House of Representatives member:

Rep. Ron Paul (TX): 88.24%
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Highest-scoring senator:

Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA): 81.82%

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By comparison, Obama, McCain are in the high-30% range.
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by David Horsey

For a Brush of Humor, how about a Political Cartoonist that has become the Editor of the paper he draws for, The Seattle Post Intelligencier: David Horsey.

LINK: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/

He draws a pretty good Palin and Obama.

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Wingman, Watching the Watchers.

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Intel Core i7 chip arrives--and it's Snappy!

Intel Core i7 chip arrives--and it's Snappy!

Hello NEHALEM, how you doing?

Three Sites give us the Story:
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CNET NEWS:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10080831-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

XBITLABS:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/nehalem-microarchitecture.html

EXTREMETECH:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333764,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
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Also in the TECH NEWs was last week's appearance of Windows 7, successor to the "Hard to Like" VISTA, was pre-released to Developers attending last week's PDC conference.
Most reviews have be mixed, leaning toward "Pretty Good".

A You Tube video and review of the New Desktop is available at the following CNET website:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10080417-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Wingman.

How the Old Bush Campaign Administration Destroyed CNN.

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How the Old Bush Campaign Administration
Destroyed CNN.

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Ted Turner must be doing flip-flops.

The Network News Channel that was the Awe of every serious news agency has become Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Full of Sound and Fury, signifying nothing..".

Even the Pop Rock Group: Talking Heads had something to say.

CNN was based on the idea of reporting the NEWS, and has become a political grifter and drifter, and reporting Opinions, and Questions Without Answers.

Don't we get enough of that from political campaigns?

Newspapers are dying on the Vine right and left and the advertisers are Flocking to Cable on its road to the Internet.

What CNN got wrong, is the Idea that More is Better than Good.

What used to be a Great News Organization has become an institution that will throw anything against the Wall to see what sticks.

Remember when Ed Asner asked Ted on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, "You want to be a Quiz Master???" "A Quiz master??"

Obviously the Heads at CNN never saw that Show.

Even Johnny Carson, the comedian, on the Tonight Show, did Better Interviews, because he "listened to the answers".

Nobody listens on CNN anymore. They just Talk.

It's also one of Few "News" providers that show re-runs.

"News" Reruns, now that makes no sense.

Maybe they should look up the word: NEWS?

That was what the second "N" stood for, wasn't it?

Maybe not...

Wingman voting, in spite of CNN.

Slashdot: Why Netbooks will soon Cost $99 Bucks...Thank You iPhone.

THE Three NETBOOKS:

Asus_EEE_pc(left)

Dell_Mini_9_Netbook (top)

HP_2133_Mini_Note (top-right)

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SLASH.DOT says: "Why Netbooks will Soon Cost $99 Bucks"

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LINK: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/01/056247&from=rss
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"netbooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You'll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone. It's likely that HP is working with AT&T (they're reported to be talking), which announced a major strategic shift a couple of weeks ago that should result in AT&T stores selling nonphone gadgets that can take advantage of mobile broadband, including netbooks. What's more interesting is that low income and cheapskate buyers are starting to use iPhones as replacements or substitutes for netbook, notebook and even desktop PCs. The author's take: A very large number of people are increasingly looking to buy a single device — or, at least, subscribe to a single wireless account — for all their computing and communications needs, and at the lowest possible price."

Wingman's Take:
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A lot of what the author cites rings true. Check out previous post here about "Low Income Buyers Gobbling Up iPhones". And subsidizing low-price entry-point seems to have traction too.

Interesting Premise.

Wingman

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