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Recently, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame, posted The Truth: What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC.  This story is clearly another bleeding heart “that company won’t let the other company’s kid play in my playground,” which I find is prevalent in the computer industry.  I’m not sure at what point people [...]

A lot is being said about Microsoft’s lack of focus recently.  John C. Dvorak claims that Microsoft suffers from “CADD: Corporate Attention Deficit Disorder” (Marketwatch.com, July 27, 2009).  I have to agree wholeheartedly, yet I agree it’s more than that. It seems to me that somewhere around Windows 3.1, Microsoft became star-struck.  They were the [...]

So trying out this blogging software, called Blogo. First impressions? It’s quite pretty. Maybe I’ll blog more with software on my machine that’s always available and makes integration easy.

Check out my new weekly project, VexedTech, co-starring my buds Sam Crawford & iGerard.   Episode 5: http://vexedtech.com/?p=100 Main Site: http://vexedtech.com  

This is really fantastic–an enormous achievement

The iPhone is arguably the most advanced mobile platform to come along since the dawn of mobile platforms. With this, people will use this platform in various ways, as the iPhone is not just a phone, it is a platform; as is its little cousin, the iPod Touch. Because of this obvious observation, I certainly [...]

It’s snowing in California? Ballmer says MSFT is going to spend $50 billion one way or the other. Yahoo is not a strategy. Carl Icahn worried a deal will never happen. Vista user account control are confusing says MSFT exec. XP SP3 corrupting the registry says Symantec. HP is now taking over the server business from [...]

Nine hurricanes coming. Sugar OS may be spread to other systems besides OLPC. Meanwhile the OLPC folks say the next XO 2.0 will $75? Har. Twitter gets $15 million. How to beat jet lag? Don’t eat? The Netflix box is a streaming box not download and play. This is not the way to go. Google [...]

Have you seen Evernote? It’s an integrated, note-taker cum catch-all-database for text, photos, Web clips, etc. It uses a local application and/or a Web page panel. You can send stuff to an email address from your iPhone, other mobile device or computer. The stuff can be organized and tagged in its interface. Then synced via [...]

Microsoft is now in the news too much. Gates still chattering about one thing or another. The company decides to bribe users to use their search engine. Microsoft Office not adding support for its own Open XML until Office 14. Apple and CBS sued over stealing Mighty Mouse name. Is Comcast irked over the set [...]