Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog The industry reported total income of over a billion pounds for the first time, while in the US sales of CD albums was up by around 10% -- only showing a drop of around a percent when Napster was effectively shut down.
[June 22, 2001, 17:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog According to the NY Times, Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, believes ''CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales,'' with 'Burned' CDs accounting for 29 percent of all recorded music...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
XP without the CDs
Blog After being told by Dell sales and tech support staff that the sales person who took the telephone order must have “made a mistake”, the next person I reached claimed it didn't matter “because support can re-install XP remotely” (they can't) and...
[September 26, 2008, 12:03]
Sick Sigma
Blog At one large traditional British industrial giant (we still have a few), I uncovered a dog’s breakfast of a failed attempt to introduce 6S to their sales and marketing function. Such was the gulf between the Black Belts and the sales team that I...
[May 12, 2009, 18:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now it's got to the point where even sales and marketing have heard about it. When the diary started, Google was Alta Vista, Wikipedia was a ripped-off copy of Encarta in a 4x CD-ROM, and broadband was a 28.8kbps V.34 modem.
[October 27, 2006, 18:40]
HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog The sales figures show that while HD-DVD was talking a good fight, Blu-Ray was not only in orbit but landed. Total HD-DVD sales worldwide, including the XBox 360 optional drive, were around a million.
[February 19, 2008, 10:45]
How to deal with Dell and what to buy when you do.
Blog Despite Dell's sometimes frustrating handling of problems when things go wrong (which isn't often) and their overly 'creative' sales line I like their desktops, they are extremely well made, better in my opinion than their major competitors...
[December 8, 2008, 15:03]
Thursday
Blog Wonder what it'll do to Pringle sales. One of the constant wonders of the Web is the large number of pro-cannabis sites out there: my experience of our tokin' pals is that operating the remote control to replay a Nightmares on Wax CD is at the very...
[September 27, 2002, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Am informed by Production (the unsung heroes of PC Magazine, who actually take everything and produce, as if by magic, a real publication) that Circulation do not feel that sales will increase if we are moved to the top shelves at WH Smith's.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ask anyone involved with the X2/K56Flex farrago whether sales have met expectations, or whether everyone's waiting for the ITU standard next year. Jolly good fun, and concentrate on MPEG 1 level 3 (yawn.which by compressing CD quality music down by...
[August 23, 1997, 9:00]
Windows 7 on a Read-only Flash Drive?
Blog Don't expect this function above to be available until late in the year until after the retailers get an idea how netbook sales with Win 7 pre-installed are doing. If you are careful, the read-write partition can be formatted in NTFS and it...
[June 30, 2009, 2:13]
