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CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo
adeelarshad82 writes to tell us that Fusion Garage seems to be ignoring the drama surrounding the "CrunchPad" and is planning to launch their "JooJoo" tablet this Friday at midnight. Unfortunately, the device will be a long way from the imagined $200 price point, weighing in at a hefty $499. "The JooJoo comes in black and has a capacitive touch screen, enough graphic power to deliver full high-definition video, offline capabilities, and a 4GB solid-state drive, though 'most of the storage is done in the cloud,' Rathakrishnan said. He promised 5 hours of battery life. In a demo during the webcast, the device powered on in about 10 seconds, and showed icons for web-based services like Twitter, Hulu, CNN, and Gmail, though the JooJoo will not come pre-loaded with any apps, Rathakrishnan said. Scroll through them with your finger as you would on the iPhone. In terms of the ownership drama, Rathakrishnan said that TechCrunch editor Arrington has created an 'incomplete and distorted story.'"
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Yup, that name is bad juju.
It was better than the other name they threw around in brainstorming sessions--the NigNig.
JooJoo sounds too...well, foofoo/gay.....
Just think... they paid somebody a lot of money to come up with that name.
Hell, that is about as bad as that company "Wang" a couple of decades ago. Did they not have any idea of the connotations of "wang" in the US?
That didn’t stop the Nintendo Wii.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
The technology would have to be extra special
It is special - didn't you notice, there's no keyboard!
I once took the steering wheel off my car and tried to sell it for twice the price. Nobody bought it, but I think that's just because I screwed over a blogger right before I put it up for sale.
Yes, buzzwords are always a lose-lose proposition. Time for a paradigm shift!
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
I feel bad things for this company's future. Bad Juju, bad Mojo.
jar jar was taken
calling all destroyers
Yahoo! Answers agrees with you. Maybe it's not so bad after all. Announcing the Penis Pad (formerly Crunch Pad)! It's touch sensitive!
Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.
Joo = yes in Finnish yesyes Well, at least they didn't name it "ei ei" :p
Get Back.
because it'll prove, once and for all, that there's really no intelligent life down here.
And the new name sucks ass. Will the call the kid's version the PooPoo?
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
OK, how many clicked on Julie's link in hopes of finding out what she looks like?
Enough people pronounce Wii, we, and wee the same that Wii really isn't a particularly bad name (that it is a homophone of a pronoun gives it an everyday quality that helps it deal with the urinary connotations).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
...your fascist application of that stupid Law. I swear - you're worse than Mussolini!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
That's not my bag baby, honest!
you mean Jo Jo.
JooJoo was a tablet who thought he was a CrunchPad
But he knew it wouldn't last.
Jojo left his home in Southern California
For some Indian out-source-ing.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back JooJoo. Go home
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged.
Get back Joo.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Apologies to McCartney, et al.