Traveling Down the Information Backroad http://johnrappold.org/blog John's Weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:25:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2008 johnerappold@gmail.com (Traveling Down the Information Backroad) johnerappold@gmail.com (Traveling Down the Information Backroad) podcast 1440 Traveling Down the Information Backroad Traveling Down the Information Backroad johnerappold@gmail.com No no http://johnrappold.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/272265005_5544bfa940_o.jpg Traveling Down the Information Backroad http://johnrappold.org/blog 144 144 Asteroid Nearly Kills Us All http://johnrappold.org/blog/?p=1258 http://johnrappold.org/blog/?p=1258#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:25:51 +0000 John C. Dvorak http://johnrappold.org/blog/?p=1258

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.

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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.

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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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