Renee Oricchio


Amercan Consumption: 34 Gigs A day

At first blush this is just more fascinating cocktail conversation. Did you know the average American consumes 34GB of inforrmation a day? That's ...  Read story

AT&T May Charge Bandwidth Hogs Extra

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega is dropping big hints this week that AT&T may go through with extra charges for so-called bandwidth hogs. Read story

Norton Online Backup 2.0 Today

For the small business, this is a solution to consider. Norton Online Backup is launching version 2.0 today. 1.0 was nothing to sneeze at, as wel...  Read story

Verizon Has Some 'Splaining To Do

The FTC has issued a letter to Verizon giving them until December 17th to explain why their early termination fees (ETF fees) have been doubled. E...  Read story

Shipping and Handling 2.0

I believe this will be a game changer for the shipping business. FedEx will be launching a new service called Read story

Google Chrome Finally In Beta For Mac

Or is it? Clearly, something is up. The Chrome page still only offers a download option for Windows. T...  Read story

Optimizing Your Newsletter For Mobile Readers

So, how's your e-Newsletter going these days? Uh huh, and how do you know? One thing you can't possibly know is how your readers are viewing it. E...  Read story

Consumer Reports Slams AT&T

AT&T just can't catch a break ("Poor You!" to quote Olivia Soprano). As if Verizon's "there'...  Read story

Cell Phone With a Projector

Attention smartphone makers, this would be a feature that really gets my attention: a phone with a built-in projector for PowerPoint presentations, etc. <...  Read story

Smoking Hazardous To Your Apple Warranty

Ever since The Consumerist broke this story ea...  Read story

Free Pricing Analytics For SMBs

You can't do anything about the economy. What you can do is price your company's products and services more smartly to squeeze out maximum dollars. The qu...  Read story

LinkedIn: Tear Down This Wall

Apple has an open developer's platform for the iPhone, of course. Facebook has a developer's platform for writing apps, as well. Ditto for Twitter, Google...  Read story

Mozilla Has A Problem

At least they aren't hiding it! Mozilla admits that its Firefox web ...  Read story

Time For Launch 2.0

I was watching Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com launch Chatter (the social networking app for Salesforce.com). No surprises here. The video featu...  Read story

Why Online Marketing Collateral Matters

You'd be surprised just how many small to midsize businesses still don't leverage their marketing materials online. It's easy to let this one fall through...  Read story

Word of the Year: Unfriend

The New Oxford American Dictionary has this quaint tradition of naming its "Word of the Year" from its list of new entries for the upcoming edition. ...  Read story

Cyber Monday A'Coming

It's two weeks until Cyber Monday. E-tailers are you ready? Cyber Monday is, of course, what is touted to be the busiest day of the year for onlin...  Read story

Microsoft Admits Mac Inspiration

The Apple faithful will never, never, never, never, never, never, let Microsoft live this one down. One...  Read story

When Mars And Venus Call Tech Support

Gadget Helpline took some 75,000 tech support calls between September 25th and October 23rd of this year. Typical numbers for them, no doubt. Read story

Ho Ho Ho Says Google

Free WiFI! It's the new black, apparantly. Starting today, Google is offering free WiFI at 47 airports nationwide for the rest of the year. Natur...  Read story

The New Red State, Blue State Battle

This is not about Republicans and Democrats (Thank Gawd!). It's about Verizon and AT&T, actually. Verizon has got AT&T mad as H-E-double ...  Read story

The Bill In Congress To Censor Fraud Sites

It sounds like a well-intentioned bill. The U.S. House of Representatives has a piece of legislation making its way through (it passed the Financial Servi...  Read story

Free WiFi Codes On American Airlines

Attention business travelers: Lexus is sponsoring free WiFI for American Airline passengers this week. Here's the promo code: 2010LEXUSLS ...  Read story

Sprint Says No More Tethering

I suppose they can't help themselves. They are a phone company, after all. How many of you out there use your smartphone to get online with your laptop by...  Read story

Sprint Says No More Tethering

I suppose they can't help themselves. They are a phone company, after all. How many of you out there use your smartphone to get online with your laptop by...  Read story

AT&T Hotspots To The Rescue

AT&T has what I call a happy problem; too much traffic on its 3G network. That's happy as in for AT&T, not so for their customers who suffer throu...  Read story

Microsoft Drops Iron Curtain On Outlook

And there was much rejoicing! Wow! Microsoft Read story

Second Look At Mac Mini Server

Mea Culpa! This one got by me last week when Apple announced a slew of new product upgrades (not to mention that South of Market cool and just downright p...  Read story

Business Trends That Are Impacting IT

Forget Web 2.0 mashups for a minute. We are experiencing the mother of all mashups in terms of the economy, social networking and rapidly changing attitud...  Read story

Friday Come Backs

I can't resist responding to your comments this week. It's Microsoft people. No matter how you put it the same people who designed, code...  Read story

Early Deals On Windows 7

This morning I cautioned you dear readers to not be the first in line today for Windows 7 (as an upgrade or bundled into a new PC). For those of ...  Read story

It's Not Launch Day That Matters

Well, let me correct myself. Launch day means a whole lot to the company launching the product; more specifically to the sales and marketing departments.<...  Read story

Windows 7 Outdoes Harry Potter

Huh? Seriously, it's true. Amazon's UK arm is reporting that Windows 7 is the largest pre-order item ever in it's history dethroning Harry Potter ...  Read story

Apple And Windows 7 Smackdown

Who will win? Short answer: both! This is supposed to be Microsoft's week. The new long-awaited Windows 7 operating system comes out tomorrow. Lau...  Read story

Why Windows 7 Will Sell Like Hotcakes

Tick, tick, tick! It's T-Minus two days until the launch of Windows 7. The question is will personal users and businesses rush out (or at least w...  Read story

Will Telcos Kill The Netbook?

Recently I went on a fairly lengthy rant about Nokia and AT&T's new netbook alliance. Nokia will start selling its first PC through Best Buy on October 22...  Read story

Nokia And AT&T Think We're Stupid

Nokia just threw it's hat in the netbook ring with AT&T as its service provider. Starting October 22nd (the launch date of Windows 7), Nokia will...  Read story

More On T-Mobile's Sidekick Meltdown

The only thing worse than being the poor schmo who works in public relations for T-Mobile, Microsoft Danger or Hitachi right now, would be those poor Side...  Read story

Microsoft and T-Mobile's Weekend From Hell

There are so many entitities getting black eyes from this story that it's going to take awhile to get through it all; Microsoft Danger, T-Mobile, Cloud Co...  Read story

Tech Habits In The Workplace

Forrester Research has a new report extensively laying out the tech habits of the average information worker. More interesting than what they use...  Read story