Twenty three were nominated. Nine were selected as finalists. But only one could take home top prize in the first-ever Fiasco Awards ceremony, held Thursday night in Barcelona, Spain.
And the winner was ...
Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Vista, garnering 5,222 of 6,043 votes (86%) registered via the Web. The successor to Windows XP was cited for being over-hyped, overly complex and riddled with incompatibilities.
A quirky, slightly tongue-in-cheek project of the Catalan Association MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 28, 2009 12:36 PM ET
The world's two largest creators of computer chips are cooking something up together.
On Monday morning, there will be a chip industry summit of sorts: Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest chip foundry, will make a strategic announcement at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara. According to Intel (INTC) PR, the execs on hand will be Intel mobility chief Anand Chandrashekar and sales MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 27, 2009 3:51 PM ET
Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of the Americas and India for Qualcomm, got a lesson on wireless from a Masai warrior. Photo: Qualcomm
While on safari in Kenya recently, Qualcomm executive Peggy Johnson got a fresh sense of how cell phones are changing every corner of the world.
Johnson's guide, a Masai warrior, explained that he grew up in a family of nomads and attended a boarding school during his high school MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 27, 2009 12:08 PM ET
It took 16 months, but O2 UK, Telefonica's (TEF) British subsidiary, managed to sell its 1 millionth Apple (AAPL) iPhone before its parent company released its 2008 earnings report Thursday.
But as several news sources (here, here) were quick to point out, Nokia (NOK) a year earlier managed to reach the same milestone in less than half the time, selling 1 million N95 smartphones in the U.K. in just seven months. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 27, 2009 9:36 AM ET
It took 16 months, but O2 UK, Telefonica's (TEF) British subsidiary, managed to sell its 1 millionth Apple (AAPL) iPhone before its parent company released its 2008 earnings report Thursday.
But as several news sources (here, here) were quick to point out, Nokia (NOK) a year earlier managed to reach the same milestone in less than half the time, selling 1 million N95 smartphones in the U.K. in just seven months. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 27, 2009 9:36 AM ET
The price of an iPhone in Japan can't get much lower than this.
Starting Friday, Softbank Mobile, the exclusive carrier of Apple's (AAPL) smartphone in Japan, will give anyone who signs a two-year contract a free 8GB iPhone 3G. If customers prefer the 16GB model, that will cost them $118 (reduced from $350).
Writing for CrunchGear, Serkan Toto reports that SoftBank Mobile's data plan is also being discounted from $62 to $45.60 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 26, 2009 1:08 PM ET
How secure is your smartphone? We may find out next month.
Hackers and computer security experts gathering on March 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the third annual Pwn2Own contest will be targeting five smartphones: an Apple (AAPL) iPhone, a Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry and phones running on Google's (GOOG) Android, Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile and Nokia's (NOK) Symbian operating systems.
The contest, sponsored by 3Com's (COMS) TippingPoint computer security division, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 26, 2009 12:43 PM ET
The press was barred from bringing laptops, iPhones or any other communication devices into the Apple (AAPL) shareholders meeting that began at 1 p.m. EST (10 a.m. PST) Wednesday -- much to the chagrin of CNBC's Jim Goldman, who had advertised his plans to live blog it.
But at least a couple members of Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board (registration required) seem to have made it in with wireless handhelds and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 25, 2009 1:58 PM ET
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell helps Intel understand what people around the world are doing with technology – and what they'll want to do next. Photo: Intel
While traveling in China, Genevieve Bell figured she'd have no trouble getting a cell phone. With cash, a passport and official documents from her employer, she went to a local shop where phone packages lined the walls, and asked for one.
I don't have any, the shopkeeper MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 25, 2009 12:17 PM ET
Fasten your seat belts. There could be some bumpy nights ahead in the IT department.
When the information technology guys discover how painful it can be to upgrade their current PC hardware to Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 7 -- the successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- they may be tempted to switch to Linux or Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X.
That's the conclusion of the product specialists at CRN's Channel Web -- MORE
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