Traveling Down the Information Backroad

Moto rebound? The Droid is a killer. Sony brick overheating. Big Screen DSi. The Aino phone coming. Will MSFT-Yahoo deal fall apart? Another Internet birthday? How many are there? People using upgrade of Win7 and tricking machine. MSFT not pleased.

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Google voice expands capability. I like Google voice. Win 7 mis-priced? Or not?  Endless re-boot problem not resolved. New Eclair SDK  a tasty treat. iPhone now number two smartphone. Telecom industry wants a bail out? LA has adopted Gmail for 30,000 government workers. IBM doing big stock buyback. Intel says 2010 going to be big.

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MSFT quits the Family Guy special. Netflix on the PS3 getting promoted more and more. Win7 columns in abundance. Numerous Tributes to the end of GeoCities. NY Times spills beans on Apple tablet. New Storm coming from Blackberry. 100 core chip hooray. New buzzterm appearing: TRIM. I explain. WiMAX in Taiwan. New Ubuntu in three days.

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Windows 7 rolls out to applause. Overlooked is the fact that MSFT will be selling PC’s on the website. Look for them in the MSFT stores too. Free ride for Hulu ending says News Corp. The company also says MySpace stopped innovating. No Blu-ray for the X-box. Is it really China hacking us? Droid coming next week. Some cables modems are at risk. Find out which ones.

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Bing will search Twitter and Facebook. Why? Who cares? 19-percent of all US Internet users use Twitter? I doubt it. Toy poodle sized dinosaur discovered. Acer goes 3D. Google to sell phones. Will Win 7 make touch-screens possible? Gaming is still a sorry state with Win 7.

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Barnes and Noble shows its new “Nook” e-book reader. Apple shows refresh of new Mac. Cheaper and better. NASA to launch the Ares IX rocket. Net neutrality in the news. Video game sales falling. Beatles Rock Band add-in was a dud. Meteors coming. AMD shows triple-core chip. Microsoft working on update of Windows Mobile. Canon clunker comes out to compete with Nikon clunker. Cloud computing gets attention in Europe. HP says cloud is dubious.

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Apple profits way up. Wow. Win7 buzz beginning. I wrote a column about it at PCMAG.com. Gartner says 2009 sucks. Hadron Collider being sabotaged — by the future! Google Voice is great. EU encouraged to pull a Google. I’ll tell you what means.

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Six year old in flying saucer — publicity stunt? Methinks yes. Sidekick data may be back. Huh? How does that work? Win 7 is not for older machines. Acer passes Dell in PC sales. PS3 Slim coming in November. Oracle creates bragging rights. Screwball ribbon at edge of Solar System. Android on Moto Cliq said to be hot ticket. My thoughts on MSFT stores. ASCAP loses scammy lawsuit.

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Barnes and Noble e-reader looks good. Microsoft teams up with the Family Guy. Lawsuits filed over Sidekick fiasco. Michael Dell says netbooks suck. AT&T whining over Goggle voice. Polaroid is back! Xbox III may use AMD GPU. iPhone ‘pick up” app getting too much attention.

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MSFT sets patch Tuesday record. Intel stock goes up. Nokia down. I explain why. iPhone starts car. 12-year olds love Steve Jobs. Look for the Ophone. MySpace goes gah-gah over SSD.

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