En Passant

With Google trading at about 550,

the media are ooh-ing and ah-ing a buy recommendation this morning, with a target of 700.
Yet if Google were trading at 55, with the same market capitalization, no one would marvel at a target of 70.

Better (and less expensive) than an iPhone

is the combination of an iTouch, a Verizon Mi-Fi, and a Sprint cellphone.

"Bing" is a great name for Microsoft's search engine.

And a major improvement over "Live Search."  So why so many critics?

I miss the competition

between Best Buy and the late Circuit City.

Dollar for dollar, the best computer I've ever bought

is my new Acer Aspire One "netbook."

Is there a worse VoIP service

than Verizon's VoiceWing?

My new Linksys VoIP phone adapter states on the box:

"Free Tech Support, Toll-Free US Calls, 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week."  One minor problem. 
Nowhere on the box, or inside the box, does Linksys list its phone number.

'Vonage the Dog'

A year and a half ago, I canceled one of my two Vonage VoIP lines and switched back to a Verizon land line.  Yet, every month, despite my regular calls to Vonage, Vonage bills me for its non-existent service.  And, every month, I call American Express, and American Express credits my account for the Vonage absurdity.  I now understand why 'Vonage the Dog' (as per the 'Mad Money' man) has plummeted to two dollars and change from its offering price of 17.

As more and more people abandon their land-line phones,

Verizon responds by raising its land-line fees and nickel-diming its remaining customers, thus causing more to leave.

I'm beginning to prefer

Vista to Windows XP.