Category Archives: In the News

Logitech acquires Slim Devices

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I’ve just read the press release detailing the Logitech acquisition of Slim Devices.

While I have and use a number of Logitech products, and think they’re great at what they do, they’re not exactly well known for their high end audio products. In that regard, I have mixed opinions on this takeover. I love my Squeezebox and I’d hate to see a great product sink under a cash cow. That’s not to say that will happen, but the cynical side of me tends to lean toward that opinion.

Time will tell I guess. I’ll just have to rush out and buy that Transporter system that I want tomorrow instead of in a few years time (hah, I wish!).

I love irony

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It’s like metally and goldy only…(sorry, ooooold Blackadder joke).

I do love a bit of irony though, and I had to snigger when I came across this article on The Register about Severn Trent (Birmingham water company) whose head office got flooded.

Water company sunk by birst pipe was the headline. Given all the complaints about water companies here in the UK over the past year or so, I just couldn’t stifle that snigger.

Peabrain

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The BBC report on a 21 year old, who from the age of 13 to present day, has fathered seven children. Seven! They havel labelled him as a ‘reckless Romeo’. I’m not so kind and would label him simply a peabrain, and a dangerous one at that.

How bloody irresponsible do people in this country have to get before something gives?

I can’t get my breath at this. I pity the kids of this moron…

Intimidating record stores?

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According to HMV, us women find not only downloading music mystifying, but we also find shopping in record stores intimidating.

From an article on the BBC website –

*‘Less intimidating’*
“Record stores have generally been a bit of a male preserve,” an HMV spokesman said.
“When more women are comfortable with downloading they may find it less intimidating to do that on their own computers, rather than go into a record store.”

Now I can’t speak for any other woman obviously, but I can’t say that I’ve ever felt intimidated by a record store. The prices might intimidate me, but certainly not the store or the people in it.

I wonder where they get their information from? Did they interview a group of record store phobic women or something?

I don’t know, it’s a new one on me. No wonder I like Virgin better than HMV (which actually has more to do with price than feeling intimidated by racks of CD’s and DVD’s).