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Microsoft Headed to NYC

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:57:26 +0000

Google Chrome under attack by critics. Operation payback cripples MasterCard site. Wikileaks cannot be stopped say the experts. Will Nokia jump to Android? Let's hope so. No Windows 7 slates by year end. Meanwhile MSFT get huge government contract. Japan misses Venus with rocket. Bad math? Holiday shopping through the roof according to Comscore. NYC getting MSFT store.

Google Versus Amazon

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:27:57 +0000

Google does a demo and shows Chrome OS plus the new Android OS and other items. The company is also in a battle with Amazon over book sales. 4Chan goes after the Swiss bank and others who attack the Wikileaks folks. AT&T still the worst carrier after one day. Cityville now on Facebook. IE9 supposed to stop tracking. Oh really? Japan floating around Venus. Twitter worm using Goo.gl. And Verizon thinks it can use LTE for home Internet service? Har.

Free Money!!

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:36:44 +0000

Google finally selling all those books it has been scanning. Two new phones from Google including the Nexus S. Whatever happened to the Nexus 2? Facebook on 60 Minutes to promote, uh, advertising? Apple to hire hot designer for new campus. Columbia backs off on anti-Wikileaks attitude. AT&T is the worst says consumer Reports. Samsung tablet news. IBM giving it away. HP's new University. Lose you job over offshoring? Get money! Tech deals will continue forever. Tumblr blows up, for a day.

Ireland May Lose HP

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:45:58 +0000

Netflix streaming only service in USA for $7.99. Novell goes private and sells 882 patents to Microsoft. New special newspaper for the iPad coming from News Corp. iPad doing nothing in the Enterprise. Secret spy satellite launched. Facebook promoted as homepage. Thoughts on the Kindle. Donkey Kong Country a winner. HP thinking about moving out of Ireland.

Anti-Matter Captured!

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:59:20 +0000

Hulu launches pay services. Did I say $8 a month or $6? Google doing fashion search for some reason. Beatles on iTunes finally. China is ruining the Internet? Maybe. Anti-matter created and captured at CERN. Meteor show tonight. Today is National Unfriend Day. Who cares? RIM CEO is kind of a dick about apps. Religious leader worried sick about Facebook.

China Now Supercomputer King!

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:53:35 +0000

Top of the news is Facebook new messaging system. Who cares? iTunes announcement tomorrow. I have ideas as to what they will release. Airport security is over-the-top. How does MeeGo get any traction? China takes over the top spot in the supercomputer game. HP Slate is sketchy. Wikipedia needs money and lots of it.

The Kin Making a Comeback? What?

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:05:11 +0000

Apple I to sell for $200,000? Apple to jigger with Java in some odd way to screw Android. Facebook going after GMail with Facebook mail. Cripes. Big fuss over Pedophile book. Whole story is odd and dumb. I discuss. Microsoft Kin back in play? Kinect system deconstructed. Want to see Phone 7, go to Radio Shack. Boxee box now out. Supercomputers will be inside sugar cube.

Bubbles from a Black Hole?

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:40:17 +0000

Google adds dumb feature to results. I complain bitterly about this and other new features. Apple launching newest iOS this week. MSFT sends out patch for nasty outlook bug. Call of Duty is killing. Contrails getting attention. Bubbles from the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Colored e-paper? How? MSFT sues Motorola over onerous patent royalties. AMD expects to make chips for the tablet market.

ZUNE Phone Ships!

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:51:22 +0000

MSFT Phone 7 on sale today. Hooray. The Zune phone arrives. Toshiba showing off nice thin SSD drives. Google giving away free in-flight Wi-Fi over the holidays. Steve Ballmer unloading MSFT stock. Is he going to quit? Sandy Bridge will be selling by the ton next year sez Intel. HTC doing an app stoore. SyFy network snubs Google. Windows 1.0 anniversary. Nokia retake Symbian. Queen Elizabeth on Facebook.

Macbook Air May be Faulty

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:13:01 +0000

Facebook taking its mobile strategy to a new level. Apple sued over faking upgrades. MSFT will sell a lot of Kinect and Phone 7 phones. Hooray. T-Mobile just calling 3G to 4G no matter what it really is? I complain about this. Google Buzz stays in the news. iTunes goes to 90-second previews. RIM getting killed. Violent games story march on. Google in significant breach or UK laws. Macbook Air having issues.

Google Day

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:38:22 +0000

Violent video games still in the news. California law at stake. I talk a little about the new Phone 7 ad that does make me laugh. Twitter to squeeze ads within tweets somehow. Newest iPhone OS out for developers. Google loses $8.5 million over Buzz lawsuit. Dept. of the Interior sued by Google. Turks hate YouTube. Google now offers bug bounty. Big money. Google traffic out of control.

Blekko to Kill Google?

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:35:50 +0000

Blekko tops the news with odd reviews. Android makes hay in market share. XboX Kinect suppose to kill the competition? Apple suing Motorola over patents to multi-touch. This should be rich. Violent video games protected by First Amendment? Yes? No? Viewsonic rolls out a tablet that does dual boot. Google sues over bad bidding practices. Nissan electric cars are weird looking. Hotmail supports all email addresses. So what?

Playstation Phone Coming

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:08:53 +0000

MySpace gives into pressure from Facebook to change! Yahoo Mail gives into pressure from Google to change! Google to public: If you are freaky about privacy move to mars! Limewire dead. Playstation phone. Doomed to fail I say. Colored Nook looks good. Where is the white iPhone? MacBook Air making a ton of money. Samsung Galaxy is too big sez I. Another spam King of Russia tracked down. Firefox 4 delayed. Good! Yahoo now fully Bingimated. Apple rethinks the SIM card.

The White iPhone Appears

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:20:12 +0000

Office 2011 for the Mac is the best ever! White phone showing up in Apple store app. BMW recalls 130,000 cars. Interesting reason. Google getting creepy? Sony Walkman news gets weird. Free e-books loaded with advertising. Kindle sales higher and higher. Garmin giving up on Smartphone idea. Digg fires over 1/3 of its staff.

Wi-Fi Direct Goes Public

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:20:17 +0000

I explain Wi-Fi Direct. Sony Walkman goes out of production. It's over. Android market tops 100,000 apps. Most are crap. Samsung tablet too expensive. Windows 8 BS hype begins. Guess how many Wii remotes have been sold? Kids want Apple products. E-books outselling print books 2 to 1. New Ubuntu coming out. It talks to fancy chips. Computerworld rehashes old idea. Bees are smarter than computers.

How Did Smart Phones Become a National Obsession?

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:51:05 +0000

Apple rolls out new Air laptops along with other goodies. Jobs still in the news for slamming RIM. Chillingo sells out to EA. Privacy issues once again plague Facebook. CNN highlights Smartphones. How do you do drag and drop with a browser app? MSFT gets NYC. 2 billion Internet users cannot be wrong. My take on hot marketing. LTE works like a champ. IBM moves from Dublin to China. Intel Sandy Bridge being low-balled? Cisco to buy RIM?

USA Number 15 in World for Broadband

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:28:24 +0000

Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft. Microsoft steering OEM's away from using Win Phone 7 on tablets. This is bucking the real trend. It won't pay off for MSFT. Crazy. USA 15th in the world regarding broadband. Apple profits up and it looks like nearly 20 million iPads will be sold in 2010. What? Sprint to bring Wi-Max to NYC, LA and SFO. New MacBook Air coming. Disc free Netflix coming.

Microsoft Frets Over Open Office

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:05:41 +0000

Showdown between Google and Facebook as MSFT backs Facebook. Teen average over 3000 texts a month. What? That's over 10 per day every day. Girls text the most. Dolby on Netflix streaming. Back to the Mac event coming? Sony sees a strong Xmas in Europe. The company expects to sell boatloads of PS3 devices. Over 2 million machines are in a botnet. This means you! MSFT freaked out about Open Office.

Apple Market Share Breakthrough

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:28:34 +0000

Bing will use Facebook info to make your searches better. Now there is a feature I do no want. FCC to crack down on cell phone balloon charges. Apple hits 10-percent market share, finally! Sony doing a lot of Internet TV stuff on their big screens. Anti-sexting patent is not what you think. Broadcom getting into 4G hard and fast. Love is a drug according to scientists. New Twitter being pushed hard. Sams Club selling iPhone and iPad shortly. Mew Pew research study says video phone calls growing slowly. Verizon ready for iPhone.

Dell to Buy Dell?

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:42:37 +0000

Google invests in offshore wind grid project. Verizon going for simultaneous voice and data to new CDMA network. Spy school coughs up $610,000 for peeking in on students. Samsung TAB delayed in Korea. Malaysians have the most social network friends. Twitter wants one billion users. Meanwhile 75-percent of all tweets are ignored. We were almost killed by an asteroid. The Richard Branson rocket joyride expected to be open for business next year. Palm Pre 2 coming any minute. It will run WebOS. Michael Dell may buy back Dell. What? No cut and paste on Phone 7.

Americans Are Third Rate in Guess what?

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:56:23 +0000

Windows Phone 7 rolled out today. Read my column at www.pcmag.com. It's not a cool factor phone by any means. Google getting ink over driver-free cars. It's the future they say. Tourist space rocket tested. Read about it here: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=79212 . Gates Foundation getting into teaching machines. NASA getting money. AT&T going towards pay TV. Dogs get depressed if you not feed them. Wow. Who knew? Cute Russian spy becomes banker. Computerworld says we a behind in the USA regarding social networking. Yeah, right.

iPads to Sell 11 Million this Year? What?

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:37:20 +0000

Facebook changing for no apparent reason. Pulling a Digg? Logitech rolls out the Google TV. I think it is just an extended Harmony Controller. Apple back in the news regarding CDMA. Motorola wants FTC throw the book at Apple, Verizon going LTE sooner than later? Motorola Droid Pro supposed to be a Blackberry killer. Motorola may try Phone 7. Apple TV selling well, but the iPad is even hotter. Galaxy S selling like crazy too.

Oct. 11 is Doomsday for Microsoft

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:16:21 +0000

October 11 is the day for the big launch of Phone 7. Skype and Twitter name two new CEO's. Google TV is coming with a lot of partners. FCC investigating mystery charges. Toshiba doing glasses-free 3D. David Gelertner gets huge settlement from Apple after Apple used his patents. I have a short rant on the topic. Samsung doing deal with Docomo. Are they still around? Wasted food is lost energy! Ack.

HP Tells Android to Pound Salt

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:42:06 +0000

Techcrunch Disrupt ends. HP dumps Android OS. Lucas to bring out Star Wars in 3D. Meanwhile 3DS will not be out in time for Christmas. Should Facebook buy Skype? Net Neutrality bill is dead. Next year's Apple iPad sounds like the winner. Details within. Blackberry going to QNX and the company proud of its low number of apps. Texting makes people drive safer? Horsecrap. Amazon doing an Android app store. Hulu Plus on Roku and Tivo. E-books get children to read more.

Microsoft Kills its Blogging System

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:27:30 +0000

Techcrunch goes to AOL. That should be interesting. Rim Playbook released. Texting while driving not as harmful as they say. Apple TV analysis going on. Twitter finding ways to make money. Is Google building a Serendipity engine? Sounds like a scam. UFO's apparently saving the world. Cripes. New Sony-Ericsson phone make promises. Open Office forks. Microsoft gives up on blogging. And guess what?

Google Wins One.

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:47:45 +0000

Stuxnet virus becoming the rage in the news. Watch it grow. Here comes something called Super Wi-Fi. Yawn. Mark Zuckerberg pledges millions to Newark, NJ schools. Meanwhile Facebook flakes out. Facebook Smartphone comes and goes and comes and goes. Poor science education sinking USA economy. Spanish court sides with Google. RIM Blackberry tablet ramping up as is HP Win 7 pad. Ugh. Einstein sez you may live longer if...

Micheal Dell Shows off 7-incher

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:54:50 +0000

Oracle World going full tilt in SF. Michael Dell attends. Rumor abounds that the Oracle may buy HP. IBM to buy Brocade? Perhaps. DSL hitting 700 Mbps. Where? Schools and libraries will get fiber from government. Twitter attack not my fault. Autumn begins. Jet Blue setting up Wi-Fi on planes.

Dell Investing Big in, uh, China!

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:52:34 +0000

MSFT has PR machine cranked to the max with IE9 stories. Meanwhile Verizon holding off on Win Phone7 Phones. The miserable AT&T pushing 4G. PS3 getting Blu-ray 3D. Space taxi coming by 2016. Skyhook lawsuit of Google looks dirty already. Motorola tablet coming in 2011. Dell to drop $100 billion to expand its China operations.

No More Adult Ads on Craigslist, Ever!

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:45:36 +0000

IE 9 hits the streets. Apple setting up newspaper subscriptions for iPad. Google fires an employee for snooping on users. Craigslist gives up the fight. Windows mobile dying fast. Microsoft doing search deal with Facebook. Nokia left without buzz. Study says women more likely than men to buy into climate change argument.

Why Steve Jobs Wears Black? NINJA!

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:42:41 +0000

New Twitter on the loose. Nokia sticking with "design" as key to success. Interesting research says few people actually use cell phone apps. What? Then again the total number of people using these phones is huge. Bing beat Yahoo. Steve Jobs supposedly caught trying to get on plane with Ninja Stars. You know, the weapons! Nokia Chaiman stepping down in 2012. The Master key of HDCP protection on Blu-Ray may be compromised. Uh-oh. Intel gets into the app store game for Net Books.

Hey Chumps. Beat 1 Gb Internet Connections.

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:16:18 +0000

Nokia weirdness. People quitting over the new Microsoft CEO. Amazon goes after the iPad. Walmart getting into data plans. Intel supposedly shifting gears on the world of chips. Live Tube all over the news. FCC releasing white space to WiFi. Zukerberg call users "dumbfux." Birthday for Mario Brothers. Microsoft pulls a fast one on corrupt police in Russia. Where is the fastest Internet in the USA? Listen and find out.

Asteroid Nearly Kills Us All

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:36 +0000

Google Instant goes live. Very cool sez me. Go to www.crankygeeks.com to get more information. iPod nine years old. Time flies. Verbal Facebook updates and text coming. Asteroid has its picture taken. Understanding Google and Apple TV revealed. Google logo explodes. T-Mobile may get iPhone. Lots of weird Samsung free PR. Lots of talk, no action. Ping spruced up they say.

Google TV Coming Soon

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:38:47 +0000

HP filing suit against Oracle over hiring Mark Hurd. Google TV coming in 2011. Craigslist in the news about hookers. Read my PCMag column on the subject at www.pcmag.com . Smart phone future: they get it wrong. BP spent millions on Google search results. Samsung getting into the processor game. Intel lurks. ACLU sues USA over laptops being scanned at the border.

Apple Apple Apple

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:43:35 +0000

Apple shows up in all the news for nothing more than new iPods and re-do of Apple TV. Apple adds button to iPod Shuffle. Ferraris catching on fire. Hot stuff. Memristors back in the news. They will take over the world of semiconductors. China says no more anonymous burners in China. T-Mobile jumps into Wi-Max. MSFT IE business going down the tubes. Windows 7 sale coming. Family-pak coming back! Sony brings out new e-reader. Nobody notices.

O.E.D. D.E.A.D.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:52:46 +0000

Apple iPod 4g awaits more publicity. Gmail supposedly will sort your mail for you by importance. Har. VMware show ends. Climate panel trying to reform. Why? AutoCAD back on the Mac along with a mobile app. Samsung tablet getting lots of ink and attention. Has Digg failed? Blame the new guy. Web OS2.0 for Palm now out. MSFT and YHOO integrated ad system is up. Google buys another social gaming company. Nanocrystals now in play. Oxford English Dictionary considering going all digital. Aww.

HTML 5 Headed Your Way

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:00:59 +0000

HP and Dell really going at it over 3Par. iPod classics may be dumped. RIMM doing deal with India. Why does Google search tweets? Fake reviews under attack. I like Yelp. Facebook killing IE6 support. Laughable. Government wants Craigslist to cease "Adult Services" listings. This will be fun to watch. Kindle and iPad under discussion. H.264 breakthrough.

Samsung Tablet Goes After Apple

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:13:14 +0000

Samsung getting into Android Tablet biz. Dell starts selling Smartphone. Nokia into 3D? What? Why? Fuji display? Now Toshiba wants a big version and proposes a large version somehow. Webcam hits iTunes and Paypal. North Korean pages deleted? What? Grand Canyon at risk from mining. Apple kickback scheme was done with shoeboxes full of money. HAR. Intel wants to beat ARM. Well, OK.

Who is 3Par?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:04:21 +0000

3Par stories abound. MSFT push Win Phone 7. I'm predicting them becoming the odd man out. Apple patent rationalized. I find it onerous. Find out what I mean. New Kindle about to blow doors off the place. And now we are seeing sub-$100 e-readers too. Verizon getting into the act. Google buys Like.com. New pocket camcorder from Kodak sounds like a winner. Do we need an FM radio in all devices? No.

Seven-Inch iPad Coming?

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:39:57 +0000

Michael Dell under attack from the shareholders. HP board trying to explain the Hurd situation.IBM sued for fraud. Orleans working the cloud for Microsoft. Company has new navigation system and a new kind of MS-Mouse. Intel fixing NAND devices. SanDisk going after SSD biz. Australia is crazy. ZDNet seems clueless. Google not helping dev enough.

iPhone Owners Love the 4

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:51:53 +0000

Intel agrees to end chip wars to appease the FTC. Listen to Crankygeeks.com for more info. Blackberry Torch being scrutinized. Google kills Wave. Does anyone recall Wave? EU likes the iPhone. They hate the Blackberry. Why? Apple has huge security hole. Facebook and MSFT settle lawsuits. Facebook hooking into various SmartPhones. Clearwire hooking to iPhone. Facebook may be getting a lot of money! TSA saving your images from the airport.

Kindle Sells Out!

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:05:01 +0000

Social media sucking up most of people's time online. Email fading. Android sales topping iPhone in sales. The crossover should stick. But therein lies the rub. Dvorak's advice: do not drop an iPhone4. Meanwhile, a new easy jailbreak is available. Motorola Droid updated this week. MSFT does early patch for shortcut flaw. Win 7 passes Vista. Kindle is sold out.

Who says Privacy is Dead?

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:27:33 +0000

Ballmer in the news yakking about the MSFT pad. Kindle expensive to make. Probably losing money on the device. Meanwhile RIM delivering the Blackpad. Privacy issues abound. Windows shortcut hole at issue. Moto Droid getting 2.2 finally. Global warming undeniable says NG. NYC subways to go wireless. Android apps sending data to China. Why? Samsung 4G LTE ready to go says FCC. Mars Rover to die soon.

New Kindle is a Winner

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:07:23 +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.

Goog;e Yahoo Microsoft Spells GYM!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:45:54 +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.

50 Gbps Coming to Your Home

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:29:05 +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.

Hadron Collider Obsolete Already? What?

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:28:23 +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.

Nook on Droid

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:00:58 +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.

IBM Makes Money. Huh?

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:51:33 +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.

Google Nexus One All Done

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:20:41 +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?

Apple Netbook?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:25:59 +0000

Droid-X looks good. Google earnings not up to par. WSJ says Apple know of the iPhone antenna glitch. Old Spice making a comeback. Verizon joins with junkware? Mercury flyby shows planet Mercury has huge magnetic field. HP needs to ditch Android tablet sez expert. Microsoft to co-fund dev work on Phone 7. 11.6-inch Mac Book Air coming? Apple buying small tech companies. Zynga killing it.

Blackberry Comeback?

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:54:40 +0000

Bing gaining market share says the experts. Too many stories at once. I'm suspicious. 12 Russian spy at Microsoft! The company will be financing WinPhone7 apps. Instant charging batteries. Apple gets in to mapping. Android sales continue to swell. Chicken and egg mystery cracked. Music in the cloud coming soon. RIM to make comeback. Hot new Sony NEX camcorder kicks it.

Google Spending Big onGames?

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:04:47 +0000

Google codeless App Inventor getting attention. MSFT now selling cloud services to others. I hear eBay will be testing it. HTC EVO 4G phones taking forever to ramp. RIM to do Blackberry tablet? Google buying into Zynga. I have a Google profile! So? Facebook adds panic button for dummies. US Senator worried about doomsday. Acoustic fibers can sing!

3D Camera Awaits

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:04:26 +0000

YouTube mobile takes off. New iPOD Touch revealed. NSA to be monitoring the power grid. Facebook lawsuit woes. Are women addicted to Facebook? Answer: yes. AT&T limits iPhone fun. MSFT Kin to disappear. I predict it will be gone from the timeline. 3D Camera coming. Twitter to become the next Google? How?

EU Going for Another Money Grab

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:25:14 +0000

Microsoft getting a lot of bad PR. Apparently cutting jobs again. Kins death at issue too. Xbox meanwhile looking good with $1B sales or so. Chipmakers running with the bulls. Samsung looking good. New Charm phone getting attention. Mozilla 4.0 has a new GUI. Best Buy getting into the wireless broadband service act. Germany going after Facebook. The EU is going after Google. For what?

MSFT Kills Kin Already!

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:27 +0000

Good Crankygeeks today. www.crankygeeks.com MSFT kills Kin! That was fast! IPhone still holding lead over all Android devices. Sony Vaio burning people? Half a million recalled. Verizon LTE plus iPhone. Hulu debate ongoing. Flying car news continues. Cisco doing a tablet. Why? Flying car in the news one more day. 70,000 turtle eggs at risk. Kindle books give better royalty. HTC EVO is $200. Android 3.0 in the works. One analyst says do not get excited by Windows 8.

MSFT Kin Already a Flop?

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:18:12 +0000

Hulu starts paid service. Google backing off on China threats. Verizon iPhone coming in Jan 2011. Apple being sued over antenna issue. Weird story about iPhone Facetime. Windows 8 outlined. Flying car coming out for sure! Dell sold faulty computers. Seagate has 3TB drive. Where is the new Hotmail? MSFT Kin phone a flop?

Chrome Overtakes Safari

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:53:18 +0000

Nintendo 3DS comes in March 2011, not this Christmas. Father of digital images want to make them better. How much better can they be? Social media up but by how much? Seems like a low number. Antenna patch coming from Apple. Weird. I thought there was no problem. Google trying another social media initiative. What about Orkut II. Bag of parts in the iPhone4 is $188. .XXX good to go, for now. Salesforce digs up a Microsoft enemy. Guess who! Google Chrome beating Apple Safari.

YouTube Stats Are Ridiculous.

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:19:49 +0000

iPhone aftermath. In one day the company sold 1.5 million phones. The company admits there are antenna issues. Actor Jason Bateman boo'd for cutting in line for iPhone. Looks like .xxx domain getting approved. Salesforce suing Microsoft. Microsoft suing Salesforce. Cool eclipse coming up tomorrow. Nintendo wins the E3 show. Facebook going after Google in search. Will Steve Jobs testify before Congress? Win 7 SP1 in the wild. Nokia loses Symbian guy. Wait until you hear the stats on YouTube. Wow.

Palm to Arise from the Dead

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:21:37 +0000

People waiting in bread line to get an iPhone 4. The phone has apparent strange connection problems. Is the white one resolved? Apple iOS4 getting too much ink. Twitter gives in to the FTC over breaches. RIM making more money, may do buy back. Android 2.2 coming fast to Droids. Zune needs re-introduction. Developers looking at Android. Google deletes apps on your phone? HP going to take on the iPhone. I laugh at that.

SD Worm Card Lasts 100 Years

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:02:59 +0000

White iPhone having manufacturing issues? I'll tell you exactly what the real problem is. Apple iOS4 already hacked. Looks like Droid X is the big winner for Motorola. And Droid gets flash! Google being investigated in the UK for WiFi violations. Meanwhile, Android maps upgraded to give you transit info. Bing pushing entertainment. Still no match for Google. SF traffic messed up by Russian President. Firefox crashes. Who knew? New SanDisk WORM SD card may be a hot ticket.

Google Voice Free-for-All

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:22:06 +0000

Dell going private is still in the news. CNET calls out Microsoft. IBM getting into mortgage processing. Why? Best Buy coming out with media display. Google voice now open to the whole world. What a deal! Nintendo opens to idea of 3D console. Apple sells 3 million in 80 days. Apple shipping iPhone 4 early. Electronic license plate ads coming. Old ladies drive better than you.

June Swoon

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:07:15 +0000

Too many boring stories about Apple iOS4. E-readers drop below $200. Summer at Stonehenge. Xbox Kinect looks to be a winner, for the short term. Xbox has become a cult machine. IPhone 4 orders cancelled. Toshiba back on the Libretto track. Google music search? Dell going Chrome. Motorola Droid phone going gangbusters. The Space Shuttle should stay flyimg says astronaut. New Xbox cools itself better. Stop the presses. Verizon FiOS month-by-month.

MSFT Makes Comeback

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:39:52 +0000

Facebook having more privacy issues. Meanwhile Facebook made $800 million. E3 over. What came of it? Read my Marketwatch column on game consoles. PC World discusses overages. Adults texting while driving more than teens. Netbook doomed? EVO phone coming out in white -- from Best Buy. Motorola will keep trying MSFT on some phones.

Cheap Tablets Coming

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:58:20 +0000

Microsoft Kinect to be on TV's? Why? Oracle caught overcharging or not? Apple iPad dooming the Netbook say experts. I doubt it. Looks like the PC business will boom this year. YouTube adding video editing in the cloud. $88 Tablet running Android. Broadsoft IPO bombed. Nokia warns that next quarter might suck. Nintendo may buy back the company. SF approves crackpot law to no avail. FBI going after iPad hackers. RIM tablet seen as a threat. Har!

New Mac Mini with HDMI

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:34:52 +0000

IBM getting into mobile advertising? Everyone is trying to get into the act. E3 news hogging the news feeds. Look for a Nintendo 3DS and Sony 3D on everything. RIM developing new Blackberry and tablet. AT&T and Apple cannot handle the iPhone 4 orders. Swamped. Wi-Fi ruining demos. New Mac Mini. Office 2010 ships! Pac Man released again.

Xbox360 Shrinks

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:45:41 +0000

E3 Underway. Look for a lot of news about games! New Xbox360 shown. Report on the new N9 phone from Nokia. I like it so far. Meanwhile Starbucks does free Wi-Fi. Hackers says all iPads at risk. Yet another Halo coming to a machine near you. MSFT Natal column running in PC Magazine. Moon loaded with water? Oh really? EVO phone has some bad screens. New server uses Atom processors? What? YouTube now considered art? No way. Way.

$199.99 PS3? Cool.

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:42:45 +0000

Hacker in the news. 10 reasons why Google is better than Bing.Another phony list. FCC looking over Apple practices. South Korea rocket blows up. Microsoft Office 2010 coming out soon and the company is worried? June 24 for iPhone 4. Sprint thinks its EVO can kill the iPhone? Motorola phone to get to 2 Ghz. Cheap Playstation in the works? MSFT Tech Ed show poorly planned.

Google Carps About Apple

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:35:04 +0000

Google irked by Apple policies. Awww. iPhone 3GS phones being discounted to dump them. Sprint may be wrong about EVO sales. Who says? Sprint, that's who! Google has new ideas in search. Code word: Caffeine. Looks as if HP will keep the Palm Pre in play. AMD new fusion chips are supposed to be great. E3 buzz beginning.

Apple WWDC Still Hogging the Spotlight

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:05:05 +0000

Safari 5 kicks butt they say. China going overboard with censorship. MSFT Windows Phone 7 does biz apps. So what? NYT has head up its own butt. Bing turns one year old. Read my column. Ford to use Google maps. iPhone can run Android 2.2. Microsoft has a debt? What? Weird news from down under.

Apple WWDC Hogging the Spotlight

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:16:58 +0000

Most News is about Apple. The iPhone 4 is released. AT&T crashes. Multi-touch pad leaked. Why is Facebook and Yahoo in the news so much? Sprint sets record with EVO sales. Where are the numbers? The Safari browser is gooder. Does the Internet make you smarter? Does the Internet make you dumber? HP scheme to network printers is underway. Kindle versus iPad showdowns. Sculley thinks he sucked at Apple. What? Apple drops Cashback and I write about it.

Tech5 on Hiatus

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:35:29 +0000

Will return on Monday

Pad Mania Begins in Taiwan

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:59:08 +0000

Steve Jobs nixes certain old-fashioned apps. Google ditches Windows and goes with Linux and the Mac. Quit Facebook is a bust. 30 tablets dues out in Taiwan this week. Computex begins. Woman nearly gets killed from Google directions software. Jobs doing WSJ event? Why? Elusive neutrino found. Adobe has new cool reader. EVO phone out and about. Facebook attack.

Hurt Locker Attack

Fri, 28 May 2010 15:39:35 +0000

Fake Chinese iPads hitting Chinese market before Apple can move into the market. Zuckerberg donates to Diaspora. Why? New $99 Apple TV coming soon. Still just a box. Most observers do not see Verizon iPhone there. Facebook top site in the history of the Internet. Motorola Android tablet coming out soon. More weird Oil stories. Google to do ads on our phones. Marvell doing an OLPC and a tablet. iPhone can be screwed with. My Marketwatch column runs today. Computex begins shortly. LCD 3D without glasses is blurry. Foxconn jacks up pay.

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Change Your Era

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:45:33 +0000

Acer Android phone is loaded. US probing iTunes dominance. Atlantis shuttle may fly one more time. Huh? Natal shipping Oct. 26.FCC discovers mobile bills are shockingly weird. Do these guys ever get out of the house? Apple's WWDC a mystery. EVO getting all the ink. AT&T Android phonies crippled by AT&T. Burner phones to be cracked down upon. Gartner sees rosy year. Yahoo modernizing site. It's about time. Ballmer in the news for miscues.