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- Another Get Gets $50,000 Mobile Phone Bill for Internet Surfing
Amazon is in the news. They are going to sell music without copy protection. They announce that they sold 17 Wii's-per-second in 2007. Cripes! No way. Apple doing a deal for downloading Fox films. Walmart, meanwhile, out of the downloading business. Dell's XPS One getting praise for design but costs too much. HP sold 60 million printers last year. Boston Public Library putting old docs on line. Panasonic to show 150-inch PDP at CES. More cell phone horror stories. Guy gets $50,000 bill.
- Blu-Ray Site Hacked by HD-DVD Fanboys
Blu-Ray website hacked by HD-DVD fanboys. Russian GPS Sat system now finished. Everything thinks the USA employs trickery. Apple worried about people listerning to music at too high a level. I predict a huge lawsuit over this everntually. Expect class action suit over deafness. IBM licensing its newest technology to China. I reprise the IDG list of best or coolest items from 2007.
- China Going After Yahoo
China going after Yahoo for piracy? What? Are they kidding? IBM unveils semantic search. Microsoft adds a dividend. Man stabbed during Playstation game dispute. Circuit City having problems. Why? Norway officially kicked out the DOC format for government documents. Wired has a top 10 heartbreaking gadgets list. Interesting choices.
- Mac Ultralight to Have Silicon Hard Disk? Nice.
Apple forces the shutdown of the website Think Secret. Looks like they were bought out and shut down. Meanwhile newer sites picking up the slack. A good laundry list of what is coming out at MacExpo. New Ultralight notebook may have silicon hard disk. Intel ViiV now officially dead? Hardly a surprise to me. Had a dog written all over it. Changes at Cisco and RedHat coming. One is weird.
- Duke Nukem Forever back on track?
Duke Nukem Forever back on track? Firefox 3 version 2 now out. Meanwhile IE 8 beta 1 shipping. Survey says Mac users more likely to buy music online. Orkut worm discovered. Vista awarded "the most disappointing product" from PC World. Silverlight in the news. Oracle in the news. IBM in the news with stupid predictions.
- E3 Returning to Good Old Days. Hooray!
Apple working on the Japan rollout of the iPhone. Docomo will get screwed. Big rat found in New Guinea. E3 to make a big comeback. Stop the presses: Internet users Google themselves. Cripes, this passes for news? Intel going open source with new products. Also pushing WiMAX in japan. LCD gaining ground on plasma. Toshiba to do more chips with IBM. UK government loses MORE data. Nintendo laments shortages of Wii.
- US Senate Wants to Let Telecom Co's Violate Laws.
A bill to protect the telecom execs from lawsuits over violations of numerous laws have pass the Senate 76-10. Pathetic Congress. Another Pew American survey says Americans do not care about privacy or online information. Vista SP1 may have a backdoor. Facebook suing a bunch of porn sites for harvesting data on Facebook. Firewire going to crank up to 3.2 gbps. Quickbooks having update problems with Mac users. HP-Staples may be have colluded to keep alternative inks away from customers. If you use a public terminal then clear your data when you leave. Canada ISP's experimenting with "ad injection." Fabulous!
- Google Calendar on the Blackberry
Google in the news, again. First with the FCC conflict of interst, then with the Wikipedia clone, then with the Blackberry-Google calendar mashup. Meteor show peaks tonight. Look for increasing stories about the invention of the transistor. It's the 50th anniversary! Wii sales higher than ever. Record-breaking November.
- Is Cisco Going to Do an OS?
Opera tells EU that Microsoft is hurting the web. Nice try. AMD bringing out the 8 core chip in 2009. I'm disappointed. AMD admits it overpaid for ATI. Is Cisco going to do an OS? Looks like it. 20-percent of all PC's are infected with rootkits. Sony says it will rock with the Playstation -- next year. Carl Icahn trying to bust up Motorola. And i have the origins of the word woot. Maybe.
- Woot Named Word of the Year! Woot!
W00t named "word of the year" by Webster. Beats out Bluetooth, "surge" and Facebook used as verb. John Chambers for President? Helios doing YouTube videos. The phone is for kids apparently. 300 hotfixes in Vista SP1. No better compatibility though. Fortune Magazine headline is questionable. eBAY says it will improve user experience. Video game usage enormous. LeWeb in Paris going on. Pointless.
- New Robots Now Chat with Each Other. Creepy!
Bill Thompson blasts me in BBC article. Ask.com will erase your history from their servers on request. Woman busted for murder based on searches done on Google regarding murder! Office 2007 SP1 released early. Human evolution increasing at a faster not slow rate. Honda has two robots that talk to each other. Considered creepy. Mobile gaming going to hit $6 billion by 2011. MSFT going after Chinese gangs in SE Asia.
- CompUSA Folding?!
LinkedIn adds fancy API and people love it. Spammers in high gear trying to improve their mailing lists. Bill Gates made a few bad predictions recently. CompUSA folding. Maybe I'll do a lament column over this.Yahoo reprising FinanceVision with something called TechTicker. Yahoo never spends enough money on these content plays because they do not actually understand the world of content. It's fun to ridicule though.
- People Stand in Line at Apple Store for no real Reason. Weird.
TV Guide to merge with Macrovision. Wierd combo. Microsoft HD, the unused JPGE clone getting a plug-in for CS2/CS3. Jet Blue plows ahead with in-plane Blackberry connective and Wi-fi. VOIP not allowed! Verizon being sued over GPL 2.0 violations. People standing in line at new Apple Store just becuase one guy started standing in line. Microsoft files 8-K using XBRL. Pioneers. 25th anniversary of Commodore 64. Whoopee. Fuji-Xerox shows a color touch screen e-paper.
- JetBlue to Give us an Internet Connection in the Air?
Light on news. IBM announced a supercomputer computer on a chip. Microsft wants the OLPC machines to run XP. The suicide girl getting sick publicity. Look for a new ultra-lite Mac. Where is the killer app for the Vista OS? JetBlue to do an Internet in the air scheme. Most of these ideas all die. Seiko-Epson stopping TV sales. Huh? Toyota to make some creepy robots.
- Michael Bay's Microsoft Conspiracy
Yahoo adds photo editing to Flickr. Why? File sharing Mom now targeted by DOJ. Nokia doing HD phone. Cripes, for whom? My complaints about Google News. Zuckerberg lament. Vista SP1 going into public testing. I'm going to add sound bytes. Director Michael Bay has crackpot theory about Microsoft and HD-DVD. Will the holy grail of marketing revive Dell? I try to explain it. And who is WPP?
- Why is Echostar Bidding on the 700Mhz Spectrum?
Echostar going to bid on the 700Mhz spectrum. Nobody knows why. Microsoft decides to stop disabling Vista. Deciding to go with nagware. SAP denies it is in talks with Microsoft. Moto CEO quits too. Jersey college makes students use GPS. WiFi chips sales soaring.
- Divorced People Causing Global Warming? Cripes!
Chimps have superior memory to humans. Divorced people partly responsible for global warming. Russians buy Live Journal. Mozilla updating over and over. Vista has one-half the piracy rate of XP. Stop the presses: Steve Jobs to keynote Mac Expo. Is Microsoft going to buy SAP? AT&T giving up on pay phones. Chna being reported as a huge state spons