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New Kindle is a Winner
By dvorak on Jul 29, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
New Kindle is a winner with everything improved. Steve Ballmer moaning about Apple sales. 170,000,000 Facebook users data in the wild. Win Phone 7 reviews mostly positive. Motorola Android sales saving the company. Hacker finds code to make ATM machines cough out money. Android will win the mobile OS wars. iPhone costs more than Droids to make. UK clears Google on Wi-Fi theft.
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Goog;e Yahoo Microsoft Spells GYM!
By dvorak on Jul 28, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
MSFT moaning about Yahoo Japan. Black Hat event underway with cool discoveries. 3D a theme with Panasonic as the company brings out a camera and camcorder with 3D capability. Plankton is dying! Verizon users use more data than anyone else. Why? I have a theory.
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50 Gbps Coming to Your Home
By dvorak on Jul 27, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Mac OSX 10.6.4 now out for new iMacs. Apple shows magic trackpad. Apple begs people to not Jailbreak phones. Google does backdoor deal with Yahoo Japan. Dell Streak delayed, kind of. Gamestop buys online games company. Good idea. Laser chips added to silicon for faster network. Droid-X is in shortage. AT&T doing Win Phone 7. Nobody will pay for Twitter. Climate change means Mexicans will come to USA. nVidia loses to Rambus. One million ebooks sold by author. Black Hat and Defcon coming to the news cycle.
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Hadron Collider Obsolete Already? What?
By dvorak on Jul 26, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
IPhone jailbreaking is legal, but Apple does not care. New Google cloud targeting gov’t security needs. This is a dead end. AT&T goes Wi-Fi to bolster 3G and 4G networks. What? UAE says Smartphones may be a security threat. Hmmm. CTIA suing SF over dumb law. Hadron collider is obsolete? Chat roulette has issues. EU going after IBM once more. IPv6 back in the discussion. Infoworld muses about Perl 6.
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Nook on Droid
By dvorak on Jul 22, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Microsoft making nothing but money. Stock languishes. Company will give away 90,000 phones to its own employees. Facebook CEO could lose company? What? AT&T making money thanks to Apple. Female users are clueless with Facebook says survey. IBM mainframes are boring but profitable. Droid 2.2 coming shortly. Stonehenge II found! Crazy new app locks your car. Nook app helps Android. Java can be huge.
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IBM Makes Money. Huh?
By dvorak on Jul 19, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Over 800 stories about the friggin’ antenna. Windows shell has a huge messed up vulnerability. iPad being rolled out in the EU and Mexico this week. Facebook declares 500 million users. Netflix going instant in Canada. Foursquare wants its data shared with the search engines. IBM all over the news. IBM news elaborate and confusing. HP likes Foxconn. Amazon says kindle books outselling hardcovers. Wow.
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Google Nexus One All Done
By dvorak on Jul 16, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
iPhone 4 news dominating things because of the antenna. Free bumpers for everyone. The phone still has connection issues. Google buys Metaweb. Droid Smartphones all different. Stop the presses! The Gizmodo search warrant has been withdrawn. What a nightmare. The Nexus One is now kaput. Look for Nexus Two. Video games slumping, hardware surging. NASA kills moon program altogether. Comic Con coming. Everyone wanted to buy Palm. Who knew?
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Apple Netbook?
By dvorak on Jul 15, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Droid-X looks good. Google earnings not up to par. WSJ says Apple know of the iPhone antenna glitch. Old Spice making a comeback. Verizon joins with junkware? Mercury flyby shows planet Mercury has huge magnetic field. HP needs to ditch Android tablet sez expert. Microsoft to co-fund dev work on Phone 7. 11.6-inch Mac Book Air coming? Apple buying small tech companies. Zynga killing it.
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Blackberry Comeback?
By dvorak on Jul 14, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Bing gaining market share says the experts. Too many stories at once. I’m suspicious. 12 Russian spy at Microsoft! The company will be financing WinPhone7 apps. Instant charging batteries. Apple gets in to mapping. Android sales continue to swell. Chicken and egg mystery cracked. Music in the cloud coming soon. RIM to make comeback. Hot new Sony NEX camcorder kicks it.
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Google Spending Big onGames?
By dvorak on Jul 12, 2010 in Uncategorized | View Comments
Google codeless App Inventor getting attention. MSFT now selling cloud services to others. I hear eBay will be testing it. HTC EVO 4G phones taking forever to ramp. RIM to do Blackberry tablet? Google buying into Zynga. I have a Google profile! So? Facebook adds panic button for dummies. US Senator worried about doomsday. Acoustic fibers can sing!
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