Here’s the scenario. A small company designs and creates a product and puts it up on Amazon. Things go well. People really like it. They post hundreds of positive reviews. Sales build — and keep building. Everything is going great. And then, boom, things go south in a hurry. Another company has created a counterfeit …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Feel that distortion. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET On Friday, I did something I’d never done before. I ordered an Apple product in advance. You see, I need to test this HomePod smart-speaking music machine and see whether its sound really is as Apple promises. …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A prime role for the CEO. Amazon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What’s the worst thing that could happen to your favorite tech company? For Samsung, it might be if its phones started exploding again. For Apple, it would surely be if people stopped obsessing over …
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In early 2005, Charlie Tritschler, an Apple veteran, walked into an old law library in Palo Alto, California, where a small group of Amazon employees was working on a secret project and looking to bring him onboard. The space included floor-to-ceiling book stacks and the team worked at boxy carrel desks. But, incongruous to the setting, a table nearby held …
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Amazon Marketing department: “Gee, Jeff, what do you want to do tonight?” Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO: “The same thing we do every night: Try to take over the world!” The massive online retailer continues its bid for world domination with a new product: Fire TV Stick Basic Edition. It starts shipping tomorrow to countries around the world including Canada, France, …
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For today’s podcast, we go through some of the tools Russian trolls have used to draw lots of attention to their posts online, as well as what Facebook and Twitter are doing to stop them. Plus, we talk about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becoming the world’s richest person thanks to his company’s strong third-quarter results, and Nintendo enjoying solid earnings, …
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Three months ago, Jeff Bezos was for a brief moment the world’s richest person. This time, Amazon’s CEO and founder may get to keep that title for a little longer. On Friday, the online retailing giant’s stock shot up a whopping 13 percent, a huge amount for such a large company, after Amazon easily outpaced its third-quarter earnings expectations. That surge …
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No, Amazon isn’t quite done growing. The biggest online retailer in the world managed to blow away Wall Street estimates for its latest quarter, thanks again to sharply higher revenue (hello, Prime Day!) and its superbly profitable Amazon Web Services cloud-computing business. That the company can post a higher profit despite its huge investments in international markets, drone deliveries, new …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. On the left, a real engineer. On the right, a real actor who plays an engineer. Verizon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Engineers are the smartest people in the world. I’ve had several explain to me in detail why this is so. How far, though, do …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Is this you? Is this at least a little like you? And to think you blame the kids. Common Sense/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Will Ferrell’s family members feel like they’ve lost him. I wish I could help, but I really don’t know what he’s …
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