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Since I have failed miserably at blogging, preferring to mindlessly tweet all day, this blog has become the Tech5 feed to the exclusion of all else.  So since I should probably use my blog for more constructive purposes than spamming out Dvorak’s updates his account is getting suspended as of tonight.  Sorry, but you didn’t respond to my email.  Pulling the plug in 3, 2, 1……….

-Casey

RIMM, Research in Motion continues to dive. Xbox360 future is vague. Microsoft lost. g-OS releases Cloud OS. Serious shortage if Christmas iPODs. Nobody seems to know why. Is this a marketing ruse? DOJ was about to go after Google on Yahoo deal. Contradictory stories abound. Look for the new domain name .tel. Designed for phone books or directories. Today’s show sponsored by www.budget.com/tech.

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Apple recommends that users get with some anti-virus software ASAP. We knew this would happen, no? Nokia N97 released. Will be costly. Xbox360 outsold PS3 by 3 to 1. Classical musicians to be voted on with YouTube. The winner goes to Carnegie Hall. Cell phone use in car is dangerous. No kidding! Britney Spears still number one in search engine traffic. Linux now working on the iPhone. Ted Rogers died. Samsung unveils cell phone for pre-teens. Today’s show sponsored by www.budget.com/tech.

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Black Friday turns out well for retailers. So far so good. The Josephson Institute says today’s teens are cheaters and thieves. Microsoft marketshare lowest since 1993. National free wireless may be coming to you soon. Online poker might be crooked. Hackers are the reason. SF Mayor to do 7 1/2 hour speech on YouTube. Cripes! Yahoo up and down and up and down. Apple to save the Netbook!  Today’s show sponsored by www.budget.com/tech.

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Blockbuster releases a set-top box for movie distribution. Facebook spammer story lives on. Lenovo’s new computer has a remote kill command. Machine can be killed from a distance. Black Friday coming up with sales everywhere. Look for Apple to do something. Obama phone not hacked. Ray Ozzie comes out in public with a speech. He wants MSFT to go back into start-up mode. is the computer mouse dead? Two new memory technologies in the news. Look for a big future for graphene storage.

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$873 million fine against spammer. What a farce. Twitter for sale? $500 million valuation. Micron new 256 GB SSD looks to be fast. Intel getting into it too. Ballmer will testify over the "Vista Capable" suit. Microsoft to use the name KUMO for its cloud stuff? Maybe. Bay Area going electric. HP stories contradictory. IBM allowing Open Solaris. Will IBM buy Sun?

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Obama picks tech team. All seem like government hacks. RIAA gets the state of Tennessee to throw away $10 million on spying on its students. MacArthur Foundation says Intern socializing is a good thing. New Honda Supercar, funny-looking. Google pulls plug on the unknown "Lively." Analyst  suggests that Nokia should be Yahoo.

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Now that Yahoo is gone under $10 Microsoft is not interested anymore. Apparently the company is not interested when it’s a bargain. MSFT decides to do anti-virus for some unknown reason. Company also unable to promote Silverlight against Adobe Flash. HP story from yesterday actually explained. I run down all the stocks that are in the tank. 

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Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become. 

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Mark Cuban in trouble for insider trading. Vista Capable suit causing problems. Obama is going to have to stop using the Blackberry. Look for the AVCHD fake Blu-ray discs. Intel rolls the i7 as AMD rolls the Shanghai. Google has new sketch-up art program

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