Credibility Denied: The New York Times Edition

Let’s give The New York Times benefit of the doubt. Maybe the editor had a bad week.

An article on The New York Post by Quentin Hardy is quoting Rob Enderle. Seriously, Rob Enderle? What happened? Is it because nothing quotable from Carlos Mencia?

Let’s put it this way, Rob Enderle has decades of experience for being wrong. Anyone remember the “Fifth Column” gibberish from Enderle? (That’s a link to MacDailyNews instead of to Enderle’s original post.)

Idiot of the Day, Forbes’ Louis Bedigian

I wonder how much do Louis Bedigian and Forbes editors get paid. Apparently fact-checking is not something they like doing. Either that or they should work for Fox News.

Bedigian wrote:

During the summer patent trial involving Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung, jurors found that Apple was guilty of infringing on Samsung’s patents and awarded the company $1 billion in damages.

It should say: “jurors found that Samsung was guilty of infringing on Apple’s patents”

Frustrating Headlines

The headline says:

Windows 8 is 84 percent less frustrating than Windows 7, report says

It is apparently a lot more frustrating trying to figure out what the headline is really saying. In addition to that how can one quantify frustation?

It is also apparent the study did not take into account all the frustation-filled phone called from people trying to figure out why they can’t find certain Control Panels in Windows 8.

Seriously AT&T?

I got the warning from AT&T on November 1st for using more 3GB of data on my “unlimited” plan. Having travelled a lot last month resulted in a lot of data use on my phone.

What bothers me is that AT&T saying that using 3GB of data automatically puts me in the top 5% of data users. Just doesn’t make sense. Anyway, I have not renewed my contract with AT&T, so I can leave anytime I want.

1.0 Ratings

It makes so much sense to have ratings like this:

  • Gaming graphics: 3D business and gaming graphics performance – 7.4
  • Graphics: Desktop performance for Windows Aero – 1.0

Thanks Microsoft!

Not a Vote of Confidence

Spending the day in Midtown Manhattan and finding out both AT&T and Verizon did not have great service. AT&T showing full signals but no voice and data. Verizon keeps switching from LTE to 3G to no signal.

On the other hand, there are a lot more iPhone users, as casually observed

By the way, there were a lot of New York Police and Secret Service, blocking the street as President Obama and his entourage passing through the streets of New York. Apparently Governor Romney was also in New York.