Windows Phone 7 rolled out today. Read my column at www.pcmag.com. It’s not a cool factor phone by any means. Google getting ink over driver-free cars. It’s the future they say. Tourist space rocket tested. Read about it here: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=79212 . Gates Foundation getting into teaching machines. NASA getting money. AT&T going towards pay TV. Dogs [...]
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iPads to Sell 11 Million this Year? What?
October 6, 2010
Facebook changing for no apparent reason. Pulling a Digg? Logitech rolls out the Google TV. I think it is just an extended Harmony Controller. Apple back in the news regarding CDMA. Motorola wants FTC throw the book at Apple, Verizon going LTE sooner than later? Motorola Droid Pro supposed to be a Blackberry killer. Motorola [...]
Oct. 11 is Doomsday for Microsoft
October 4, 2010
October 11 is the day for the big launch of Phone 7. Skype and Twitter name two new CEO’s. Google TV is coming with a lot of partners. FCC investigating mystery charges. Toshiba doing glasses-free 3D. David Gelertner gets huge settlement from Apple after Apple used his patents. I have a short rant on the [...]
HP Tells Android to Pound Salt
September 29, 2010
Techcrunch Disrupt ends. HP dumps Android OS. Lucas to bring out Star Wars in 3D. Meanwhile 3DS will not be out in time for Christmas. Should Facebook buy Skype? Net Neutrality bill is dead. Next year’s Apple iPad sounds like the winner. Details within. Blackberry going to QNX and the company proud of its low [...]
Microsoft Kills its Blogging System
September 28, 2010
Techcrunch goes to AOL. That should be interesting. Rim Playbook released. Texting while driving not as harmful as they say. Apple TV analysis going on. Twitter finding ways to make money. Is Google building a Serendipity engine? Sounds like a scam. UFO’s apparently saving the world. Cripes. New Sony-Ericsson phone make promises. Open Office forks. [...]
Google Wins One.
September 23, 2010
Stuxnet virus becoming the rage in the news. Watch it grow. Here comes something called Super Wi-Fi. Yawn. Mark Zuckerberg pledges millions to Newark, NJ schools. Meanwhile Facebook flakes out. Facebook Smartphone comes and goes and comes and goes. Poor science education sinking USA economy. Spanish court sides with Google. RIM Blackberry tablet ramping up [...]
Micheal Dell Shows off 7-incher
September 22, 2010
Oracle World going full tilt in SF. Michael Dell attends. Rumor abounds that the Oracle may buy HP. IBM to buy Brocade? Perhaps. DSL hitting 700 Mbps. Where? Schools and libraries will get fiber from government. Twitter attack not my fault. Autumn begins. Jet Blue setting up Wi-Fi on planes. Click to listen: [Audio clip: [...]
Dell Investing Big in, uh, China!
September 16, 2010
MSFT has PR machine cranked to the max with IE9 stories. Meanwhile Verizon holding off on Win Phone7 Phones. The miserable AT&T pushing 4G. PS3 getting Blu-ray 3D. Space taxi coming by 2016. Skyhook lawsuit of Google looks dirty already. Motorola tablet coming in 2011. Dell to drop $100 billion to expand its China operations. [...]
No More Adult Ads on Craigslist, Ever!
September 15, 2010
IE 9 hits the streets. Apple setting up newspaper subscriptions for iPad. Google fires an employee for snooping on users. Craigslist gives up the fight. Windows mobile dying fast. Microsoft doing search deal with Facebook. Nokia left without buzz. Study says women more likely than men to buy into climate change argument. Click to listen: [Audio clip: [...]
Why Steve Jobs Wears Black? NINJA!
September 14, 2010
New Twitter on the loose. Nokia sticking with “design” as key to success. Interesting research says few people actually use cell phone apps. What? Then again the total number of people using these phones is huge. Bing beat Yahoo. Steve Jobs supposedly caught trying to get on plane with Ninja Stars. You know, the weapons! [...]





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