p2pnet - rss feed: Baidu.com teams with HP
p2pnet.net News:- People in China who buy certain HP computers will soon also get Chinese search engine Baidu.com. Whether they want it or not.
That’s because Baidu, targeted in a Big Four Organized Music blitz, will be included in all HP Pavilion and HP Presario series computers sold within mainland China, for one year, beginning in October 2006.
Does that mean Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG will now add HP to their hit list?
Meanwhile, "We try to ensure a ubiquitous search service, and help users to get the information they need easily,” ChinaTechNews has Baidu cto Jerry Liu saying. “We are glad to collaborate with leading companies such as HP to provide users with the products and service they need."
Users, "will also be able to access the Baidu homepage by pressing a shortcut key on the computers," adds the story.
Also See:
Organized Music blitz - Big Music sues Yahoo, July 4, 19, 2006
ChinaTechNews - HP Bundles Baidu Internet Search Service With New Computers, July 25, 2006
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July 26th, 2006 at 2:14 am
I am so tired of those “deals” that I prefer to build computers myself.
Craputer?
A crap computer. The term “craputer” has been coined to describe the onslaught of cut-every-corner, coddle-the-user, manufacturer-knows-best, pre-loaded-full-of-crap consumer-grade PCs made by eMachines, Compaq and others. Some earmarks of the “craputer” include:
* Sponsored icons and Internet links on the desktop, Free Demos and Special Offers popping up at random, one-touch “shopping” buttons on the keyboard, and other factory pre-loaded marketing crap
* Lack of a genuine Operating System installation disc or driver diskettes. Craputers often come with a set of “Recovery Diskettes” which, if used, will format your hard drive and restore your system to exactly how it was when you got it (in other words, re-load all the craputer components, regardless of how hard you’ve worked to get rid of them)
* Slow boot-ups and sluggish system performance; system memory exhausted by the large number of unnecessary background programs (media players, task schedulers, registration reminder nags, background tasks with cryptic names and unknown purposes) loading on start-up. Is the space next to your system clock overrun with little icons? Is the Ctrl-Alt-Delete task list full, even when you close all programs and have “nothing running”?
* Cut corners everywhere (cheapo components and missing PC Speakers, reset buttons, case fans, audio cables…)
* Opening the Web Browser brings up, instead of Internet sites, an advertisement nag for the manufacturer’s Partner ISP, that you can’t get rid of; Won’t let you set it up to use your existing Internet account
* Power or Reset button that doesn’t work, Malfunctioning Sleep Mode, and/or “helpful” power-management features that won’t take no for an answer
* Several Gigabytes of your hard disk taken up by a “Recovery Partition” (SYSTEM_SAV) or other useless data
* Craputer maker’s logo displayed during boot-up, covering up any boot-up messages that might alert you to problems or help troubleshoot your system
* Can’t get into the CMOS setup to view or change settings (see previous)
http://cexx.org/craputer.htm