If you were on the internet, or just were awake AT ALL during 2007, you got to see the trainwrecks that are celebrities unfold before your eyes. Well there was a whole slew of trainwrecks that didn’t get covered in gossip columns and news websites and Yahoo! Tech has exposed them to us all. They released their list of the “Top 10 Tech Train Wrecks of 2007″ and we get to breath a sigh of relief because “train wreck” and “Britney” were not in the same headline, and we also get some useful information.

Here is my stripped down version of their list:

Xbox 360: The 360 hardware was glitchy, prone to overheating, and susceptible to critical hardware failure.

BlackBerry: The service got so overloaded in April that it ground to a hault and caused users to be frantic and peeved at email delay.

Skype: The VoIP provider became an instant messenger as well and struck down the service in August for two days when they ran into a “software issue.”

AppleTV: Didn’t hear about it? No big surprise. Read the rest of this entry »

Office pools, gambling, policy-breaking internet usage, maxed company bandwidth, and an overall decline in work productivity are predicted during this month due to college basketball.

CBS is offering a free online broadcast of the 2006 March Madness NCAA men’s college basketball tournament which, doomsday sayers will have you believe, will be the demise of this quarter due to productivity loss. They say the tournament’s millions of eight to five office dwelling b-ball fans will be replacing work with watching the game from company computers. A Chicago-based outplacement company estimated the tournament will cost the economy more than $3.8 billion in lost productivity.

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A new virus called the Stinx-E Trojan Virus is the first to exploit Sony / BMG’s new CD copy-protection software. The controversial digital rights management software has already generated negative press but the launch of the Sony / BMG virus has got the web flaming mad.

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