Nov. 20, 2007
Vanity, thy name is LG Shine
IT World Canada
Dave Webb sips raspberry mojitos and samples Rogers’ holiday phone lineup.
”So, off to trendy downtown T.O. hotspot Lobby (corporate slogan: “No, you can’t come in dressed like that”) for the announcement of the new lineup of cell phones from Rogers for the holiday season. It’s a rough life, this being forced to eat Kobe beef sliders and wash ‘em down with raspberry mojitos, but someone’s gotta do it.”
John Chambers’ echo chamber
ValleyWag
Megan McCarthy wonders why Cisco employees posting under their own name aren’t bashing their CEO on a company Web site.
“Comments on the videos are enabled, and, some may say, enabling. Unlike the snarky criticisms you see on YouTube or other video sites, all the comments after Chambers’s clips are a hallelujah chorus.”
Office 2007 Productivity Loser – Ribbons Menus
NetworkWorld
Mitchell Ashley has some issues with Microsoft’s new Office UI.
Do you hate the new ribbon menu design of Microsoft Office 2007 as much as I do? I haven’t met anyone who likes this new design concept from Microsoft. Universally the reaction I see from anyone who checks out the new ribbon menus is ‘yuk’, ‘what’s that’ and ‘why did they change the menus.‘“