December 2009 Archives

As we could read this days in different online magazines there has been a satirical approach to give AT&T, Americas exclusive iPhone Provider a lesson. The "Operation Chokehold" has been proclaimed by Fakesteve this week. Other articles have been published by Gizmondo or The Register and also in German Press here from Community 36

Implications

What is interesting about this case, is the fact that Apple cooperates with a company like AT&T that does not meet in any way the quality requirements of the product sold. Now it becomes clear that the customers are not willing to take this situation any longer and a similar case like the one with "Dell Hell" (see blog entry about Jeff Jarvis) where the customer's "revolution" is taking place on the web and having significant impact on the reputation of the concerned companies.
In my opinion it is now time that AT&T is doing something proactively about this issue. If they don't I expect Apple to get out of the exclusive contracts with AT&T.

However, we will see if there is any noticeable impact on the AT&T network during friday when Operation Chokehold may become true.

Maybe some of you had or still have the same problem as I had - until yesterday. In our offices we use a Canon iR 1023 iF Multifunctional Device (Print, Copy, Fax and Scan) and since recently, we use also Windows 7 64-Bit.


I needed several tries to figure out how this might work and finally got a solution yesterday. Now I can use the device's full functionality again.

Well this is rare: As Golem.de has reported today in this post, Microsoft offers the book Visual Basic 2008 - Das Entwicklerbuch written by Klaus Löffelmann published under Microsoft Press free for download.

In the spirit of Christmas, as it seems, have they decided to give you, for a registration, the bonus and additional material, which includes the source code examples, for free.
The book itself (unfortunately for all English speaking readers in German) is available for free and without registration.