Traveling Down the Information Backroad

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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