AppleSavant

iPod batteries overheating in Japan. Meanwhile, Jobs says he’ll fix crashing iPhone. More on the bigfoot scam. Google Android phone is real. Yahoo opening up Buzz to the public. Sounds like Digg to me. Researchers say Vista gets dumped from 1/3 of enterprise PC’s. Microsoft dropping fees left and right. They also like tailored search now. IDF in play in San Francisco. MSNBC behind the times. 29-percent Internet users buy from spam solicitations.

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Toshiba slips in a Blu-ray killer: a regular DVD player that outputs 1920×1080. Nice. I want one. NetRadio doomed no thanks to RIAA. Good idea, take music off the air. Dell loses Cloud Computing Trademark. Google getting sued over patents. Bigfoot declared a hoax. Highlight of the day: 25th anniversary of PCjr. My comments.

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Open Source breakthrough. Licensing deals binding to an extreme. You can be sued for copyright infringement even if the software is free. iPhone 3G gripes unheeded by Apple. USB 3.0 coming soon at 4.8 Gbps!! Cisco and Oracle spending a fortune on lobbyists. Text-messaging coming to regular phones. AT&T will spy on you and so will the UK government. News: blank DVD’s are cheap.

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Apple has huge fire in Cupertino. Social networking sites going global. I’m not a big user and need to comment on the topic someday. Perhaps the Russians are not responsible to Georgian cyber-attacks. 26 patches from Microsoft this last Tuesday. Too many. People now reporting on daily sales of the iPhone as if anyone cares. Microsoft Surface surfaces. Salon magazine says McCain is a computer dunce. Nortel getting into SIP and buys developer of protocol. Liberty Media wants the AOL dial-up business. Why?

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Microsoft giving up on Windows. Looks like they are taking Midori seriously — Windows in the Cloud. Gates looks like he is still working to me! Worldwide Internet speeds leaves USA in the dust. We’re number 15 — woot! AMD pumping the 4870 X2. Two chips for the price of two chips.  Gmail outage makes a black mark on cloud computing. Lenovo launches quad-core. Dell does an eePC.

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IBM says it shares a vision of Linux in 2018? Red Hat says Linux will all be in the cloud. AMD may go fab-less?  Gartner warns of widespread slowdown in semiconductor sector. Google may be a big content provider? The computer beats a professional player for the game of GO. I find another 2012 story end of the world that year according to the nutters. Best Buy to have stores in the airport. Motorola leading US handset business. Microsoft wants Hollywood to save the Zune.

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We read this article in Monday’s Investor Business Daily (IBD) and thought there’s a big picture here that’s undeniable. The cool kids think Apple’s the cooler brand now—4-5 years from now could mean world domination!

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http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20080808

Google kills Blogger sites for no good reason. Someone blames Obama. 3/4 of UK searches done on Google. Microsoft getting attacked left and right. Needs to do something. Microsoft doing huge stock buyback. Cisco not buying EMC. Russian gangs hijacking PC’s (no kidding!). The Russians are trouble. Dell getting cheap ink for going green. AOL killing Time-Warner. Where is Steve Case when you need him. Steve Job memo gets leaked to the press mysteriously. CLEAR laptop lost then found. DEFCON underway. Visit if you can. Everyone agreeing to shutting their mouths while in China for the Olympics. Cripes.

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40 Million credit cards stolen. Crooks busted, finally. Worldwide-scheme. IBM pushing the "Microsoft-free" desktop. Nobody is biting. Delta to offer Wi-Fi across entire US fleet. Sony grabs Rocketboom for exclusive distribution rights. PayPal co-founders investing in Space-X venture. AT&T now into Cloud Computing. Lenovo growing too slow. AMD versus Intel with new code words. Be careful if you are asked to upgrade your flash player. Hackers lurk.

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