Lenovo’s Superfish is Really Bad Marketing, and How to Fix It

Good marketing means carefully managing every aspect of product (design, manufacture, etc.), price, promotion (advertising, sales, public relations, etc.), and place (distribution). It’s simply not good marketing to secretly alter a product to generate revenue in ways outside the control of unsuspecting customers. That’s particularly true in a technology industry where privacy and security have […]

Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx K3011 Mini-Review

I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks playing with the Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx K3011 (an awfully long name that I’ll shorten to Lynx for this review). I gave some thoughts on Windows 8 itself over here, and so I’ll focus on the Lynx in this post. Short version: I wanted to love the […]