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Google gah-gah over white space spectrum
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 […]
The Revenge of Mighty Mouse
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 […]
Napster Rolls Out 6 Million MP3’s
Microhoo story of the day. Now Yahoo will bust itself up for the benefit of Microsoft. Yeah, um, OK! Is the OLPC dead. One columnist besides myself thinks so, maybe. Asterdata shows up on the scene. I go over their odd bios on the website. Napster rolls out 6 million unprotected MP3’s. Netflix reveals set […]
Pew Survey Gets Dubious
Steve Ballmer over the news after man throws eggs at him. He also says advertising is the new bedrock of Microsoft. And now we are hearing more and more about the cloud. Cripes. Microhoo gets back on track with alternative deals suggested. Child porn laws affirmed by the Supreme Court. Latest Pew survey about the […]
Tech5 Postings
As you can see from the previous post I am partaking in some testing with Mevio.com in distributin John C. Dvorak’s daily Tech5 podcast. I’ve been a Dvorak fan for many years and read many of his columns and listen to many of the podcasts he’s regularly on so I’m happy to be able to […]