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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Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down.

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LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines.

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Is Apple planning to design its own processor? Some think so. The G-phone is cheaper to build than the iPhone. Why is IBM antsy over Apple taking one of its key people. Apple may be developing a chip. More and more stories appear about the headset magnet magnets and pacemakers. Cray Supercomputer to hit 1.3 petaflops. 25 year anniversary of Windows. Nortel stock goes into the tank.

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Earbuds causing heart problems? Apparently. iPhone number one amongst adults. Seagate selling self-encrypting drives. Obama and the CTO story continues. No MP3 player from Dell before Christmas. Microsoft to turn to Sun Microsystems for marketing help. Laughable story. VMWare wants to virtualize cellphones. Why? Circuit City filed Chapter 11.

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Craig’s List killing erotic services after 40 states go after the company. Tethering the Internet now possible with AT&T finally. Meanwhile AT&T rejects Android. Ex-Intel engineer busted for stealing secrets? Can Windows 7 fit on a notebook? Some say no. Ballmer disses Google Android. USB 3.0 now delayed. Hotmail redesigned, users gripe. HP and Cisco downgraded by the market.

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No Agenda gets nominated for an award. Carl Icahn trying to make something happen with Yahoo. Meanwhile the Google Yahoo deal falls apart. Bill Gates pushing something called DreamSpark. Unknown what it is about. Sun shareholders think they should call the pay scale for executives. Intel getting back into the memory business? Gordon Moore to return for this. I reveal an interesting rumor. SanDisk has new 100X speed increase. Barack Obama a victory for social media. Yahoo killing Y!Live. Obama Trojan floating around. John Doerr says take Bill Joy (please!).

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Fujitsu rolls out mini tablet with GPS. Netflix will stop selling DVD’s, Developer of the iPOD quits Apple. AT&T doing the bandwidth CAP too. Frozen mouse cloned. Dell asking people to take a no-pay vacation. Windows 7 will boost solid-state drives. Slowly I turned. Europe market shares up. The ink vendors and printer companies seem to be ripping off the public.  

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Obama makes plans for the tech sector. Contradictory reports on malware irk me. Mac gets Netflix streaming now. AOL in the news as they mock Google. I think they are up for grabs. Circuit City closing stores left and right. MSFT sending money to S. Korea. Fluff piece on Google going Green. IBM exec stopped from working at Apple. WDC unveils dopey media player. Motorola brings our 5-MP phone. Panasonic buying Sanyo? Microprocessor outlook murky.

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