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New Kindle is a Winner

dvorak — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:09:17 +0000

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!

dvorak — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:46:26 +0000

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

dvorak — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:29:56 +0000

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?

dvorak — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:29:26 +0000

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 Hadron collider is obsolete?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

dvorak — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:01:45 +0000

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?

dvorak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:52:35 +0000

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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Brilliant Engineering Applied to Parking

Paul — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:02:21 +0000

via woehr.de

This remarkable parking system is made by German company, Wöhr Parking Systems. Their site is at http://www.woehr.de — why don’t we have these in USA?

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Long Beach Rooftop View

Paul — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:27:13 +0000

Sent from my iPad

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Google Nexus One All Done

dvorak — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:21:13 +0000

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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Embarrassment of filth. Soon to be corrected.

Paul — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:57:25 +0000

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