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Will Apple do a Search Engine?

November 13th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm · No Comments

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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Sun Turning Green

November 12th, 2008 @ 5:26 pm · No Comments

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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Slow News Day Indeed

November 11th, 2008 @ 2:58 pm · No Comments

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 Bad for the Heart?

November 10th, 2008 @ 5:02 pm · No Comments

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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Hookers Must Get off Craigslist

November 6th, 2008 @ 9:35 pm · No Comments

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

November 5th, 2008 @ 9:03 pm · No Comments

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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Frozen Mouse Cloned

November 4th, 2008 @ 4:08 pm · No Comments

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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Circuit City Closes Lots of Stores

November 3rd, 2008 @ 4:45 pm · No Comments

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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Mark Cuban blasts Jerry Yang for being “too nice.”

October 30th, 2008 @ 2:16 pm · No Comments

Motorola having trouble restructuring and splitting. Sun under the gun and it appears that the company is up for sale. Intel pushing WiMax in Taiwan. Mark Cuban blasts Jerry Yang for being too nice. Nintendo doing well, but hard to figure that out from the news stories. Windows 7 being compared to Snow Leopard incessantly. AT&T giving away access to iPhone people. Open ID getting hot. Australia censoring the net.

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Will HP Do a Linux Distro?

October 29th, 2008 @ 5:28 pm · No Comments

LinkedIn to support an app platform for no known reason. Xbox 360 to hook into the new Netflix streaming. It will be HD! Ozzie says Azure is an Operating System as a Service. HP in the news with netbook stories and perhaps an HP Linux! Windows 7, they say, will be perfect for notebooks. The Twitter as a terrorist tool continues. New one millimeter thick OLED. Samsung doing OLED HD monitor. Sony profit falls.

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