Cranky Geeks Turning Point for Apple?

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Steve Jobs' Exit: Turning Point for Apple?
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs might return in June, but will consumers, or Apple, ever be the same? asks Lance Ulanoff in a recent article. Lance predicts that Apple will be okay even if Jobs doesn't come back to work, regardless of Apple's turbulent history without Jobs as CEO.

Opera Sides With Europe, Against Microsoft
Opera Software, Microsoft's browser-rival, has welcomed a European Commission statement that the company has broken European competition law by including Internet Explorer with Windows. Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner supports that the browser is the most important innovation within humanity's history, and because of this, Microsoft should "start competing on merits in the browser market and letting consumers have a real choice of internet browsers."


Steve Ballmer's Biggest Regret
Microsoft's president Steve Ballmer's claimed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that his biggest regret of the past ten years is impatience. Eight years after replacing Bill Gates as chief executive, Ballmer resents that Microsoft did not strongly pursue a Google-like paid search business back in 1999. Although Microsoft began a paid search project that year, the project crashed after only two months.

Pope Benedict the Next YouTube Star?
The Vatican is showing strong reciprocity towards technology as Pope Benedict XVI announces Saturday that he will get his own YouTube channel. The Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio are collaboration with Google on the project. Catholic Church officials believe that it is necessary to use electronics in order to distribute the Bible in today's world.

Is Google Looking for a Fast Lane?
Google has been discussing a need for a fast lane for its offerings in recent months. If Google is put into some fast lane by itself using a more effective protocol stack including, let's say, a search engine protocol, could it actually make more Internet bandwidth available?

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