Microsoft invented the tablet, they were just way ahead of technology. With smarl cell phone technology, smaller processors, memory and Gorilla glass, PC makers just fell asleep on the concept, Microsoft software was there but not Dell, HP, etc, who are struggling in identity. Apple hasn't ever invented anything ne...more

Microsoft's problems with devices is marketing, not the devices.  They should never have dropped the Zune but made it a Zune tablet with similar capabilities as the Windows Phone and with expanded Xbox Live Games.  Zune was better than the Ipod but coming late to the Market, And then didn't know how to corner markets w...more

Timing, bad economy in general too much money  lost by small investor 3 ears ago not recovered..  Start of a downturn couple with bad news for other Dotcom's that road high and now have lost money like Yahoo and then comes the news that the new Facebook Billionare is renouncing his citizenship, and noone wants to ...more

Businesses are just now getting the impact of the oil price increase, Individuals are just getting the credit card statements.  Businesses will start feeling the secondary effects of oil price increases.  People  stop buying non-necessities.  Families will rethink vacation plans from Disney Cruise or Disney World ...more

Unfortunately, Charlie's comments were write on, the show sucks with Ashton.  Ashton doesn't have the ability to bring life to dead writing.  The producer missed the boat by killing or Charlie and not having him committed to Betty Ford.  That with would have been a new subject for writer's to play with.  Ashton a reall...more

Bullroar,  Although the Wealth maybe seem to be unfairly distributed, America's poor are among the richest in the World.  They have Medical care unsurpassed, they have multiple Tv's,  better food than Middle Class Americans 100 years ago.  They have better homes, electric lights, indoor toilets, telephones, cell phones...more

These same people demanded cheaper goods, goods that were unnecessary, multiple televisions in the homes.  Cell phones for their 9 and 10 year old children, ipods, iphones. Multiple cars for their family.  Cheaper food so that they could waste more, paper towels, paper plates, throw away this and throw away that.  Ev...more

Well, from what I have seen is that most of what is wrong is that the Great Depression took 15 to 20 years to make a complete and lasting recovery and a World War.  But the national mobilization of companies supporting the war the leadership that develop in all walks of life is what brought us out.  The US after 70...more

Well, unfortunately Two and a Half Men is done.  The show could have been saved if Charlie had been sent to  rehab and was visited at Bety Ford or something like that.  The revelation that Rose  killed Charlie doesn't fit character.  The lack of creativity in the Season Premiere is an indication of the lack  of  ta...more