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Archive for July, 2008

Is Ancient Greek Computer a PR Stunt for Olympics? »

Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper. Netflix working with LG only for downloads? NASA looking for water on Mars. The Greek computer stories I am now convinced is a BS PR stunt. Yahoo exec makes Yuil search engine to show up Cuil. EDS to be part of HP. Microsoft redoes the search engine yet again. IE beta [...]

2100-Year-old Computer Works! »

UK hacker to finally be extradited to USA. A waste of the taxpayers money. Scrabulous lives on the Web. Dell going back into the music player business. 2100 year old Greek computer being revisited. Lake of petroleum on Saturn’s moon. Intel cheap computer a hit in Portugal. Microsoft’s Vista trick getting analyzed by everyone. Then there’s [...]

India to Develop $10 Laptop!?! What? »

Facebook ditches Scrabulous. Adobe releases 64-bit Photoshop Lightroom 2. Microsoft shows off new spherical display device. Get your own jetpack for $100,000. Dell bringing out mini-desktop, perhaps a smart phone and Wal-Mart laptops. 70-percent of Government laptops are stupidly unencrypted.  DS piracy rampant in Japan. India going to develop a $10 Laptop. Will Android merge [...]

Dynolicious: A Car Guy’s Reason for iPhone 3G »

If ever there was a reason to get the new iPhone 3G, it’s this: Dynolicious. For $12.99 (available on the iTunes App Store), you can turn your iPhone into a performance measurement device! Measure 0-100 times (or anywhere in between), quarter mile, Lateral G, and horsepower! The application features all these cooly dials [...]

Apple MobileMe Has Issues »

New search engine flops with too much PR and no oomph. FCC cannot police Comcast but they can shake fist at the company. Apple MobileMe having issues. Company has yet to patch DNS hole as other get attacked by DNS poisoning. China has 560 million mobile phone users. Wow. Microsoft all over the news [...]

Digg to be Sold to Google? »

I wonder what to do with the sound effects. Will Microsoft change the interface on the Xbox360? Child Online Protection Act has been over-turned. New law needed. Looks like Google may buy Digg for$200 million. CherryPal announces terminal calls it something else. Wiis selling like hotcakes down under. Spam King gets nearly 4 years [...]

GM Gearing Up for Electric Car Era »

Apple looking better and better but margin cuts may hurt the stock price. I like the way Apple does updates for the Mac. TiVO and Amazon doing a deal where you can watch live TV and then buy a product that you see on the show out-of-the blue. People do not watch entertainment just to [...]

The Mouse is Dead. Long Live the Mouse. »

Intel cuts chip prices. This means cheaper computers for everyone. Interesting lawsuits over Facebook clones. iPhone 3G sold oil. Mac now number three in the race to make the most computers. They passed Acer. One-fifth of all retail spending now online. Total Internet reaches 1.5 billion users. Amazon S3 outage questions the cloud. Computer mouse [...]

PC Sales Skyrocket »

Google buys another contextual ad firm. It’s out of Russia. AMD in the news as the company gets rid of CEO. Symantec screws its distributors. Interesting strategy. Cold fusion results rigged. Psystar selling HQ. PC shipments on the increase. Microsoft online keeps losing money. Web ad business rocky. Sun hopes to do well in Africa. [...]

Microsoft Stock Falls on Good News »

Microsoft’s huge revenue gain and increased profits push the stock lower. Maybe the company should figure out why. Microsoft is doing something wrong. I know what. Xbox360 best of show at E3. Who is NebuAd? They are talking to Congress whoever they are. Psystar goes back into business despite what Apple does. Tivo to [...]