Author: Alex

“If you want a really expensive laptop, buy a Vaio.”

Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer, explaining the difference between his company’s products and Dell’s, Engadget, 5 January 2006

“We’ve talked about this as the decade of digital lifestyle, the decade of digital workstyle. It’s not just one application that makes it happen. It’s the fact that as you adopt these things, they really go together.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, ushering in a brilliant new age of fingerpointing at the Consumer Electronics Show, Engadget, 4 January 2006

“When you’re listening to the Internet, the discussion is taking place in real time.”

Intelliseek spokeswoman Sue MacDonald, on advising companies to read blogs for the keen insight and analysis the medium is so well known for, News.com, 3 January 2006

“There is a lot of fear that there will be banner ads now on the Google home page. We are not considering that at all.”

Google executive Marissa Mayer, on cutting a deal with AOL to feature its content in search results, 28 December 2005

“It is wrong to describe the eight million French people who have downloaded music from the Internet as delinquents.”

French socialist Patrick Bloche, who probably wouldn’t like the RIAA’s proposed nickname “freedom thieves,” either, International Herald Tribune, 23 December 2005