Apple’s Steve Jobs appears to have a)granted Adobe’s Lee Brimelow’s wish and scr#wed himself and b)has Amazon, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm and a bevy of other mobile players wishing for many more happy returns by the Cupertino Czar to such faux pas plays in an unforgivably fast evolving Mobile Lite Device market. Lets handle […]
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Microsoft Kin is a throw-away – that is the jist of the conclusion one derives from the Engadget Opinion piece by Ross Rubin: Kin Dread Spirit. In the article, Ross describes how Microsoft top brass including Steve Ballmer and Peter Bache found fault with Google last December for entering the mobile market at the expense
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The Atlantic Wire points to some solid, high national impact breaking stories. The latest is on the nature of US Financial Reforms. In a fit of modesty, I would like to point out that this storyline was predicted and highlighted here nearly 3 weeks ago. Back -pat, pat.
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The NYTimes has done a really solid reporting and profile of the Tea party. based on a joint poll with CBS News and extensive interviews the story and follow up discussion shed enormous light on the nature of Tea Party supporters and their sometimes contradictory demands. Here is why NYTimes did the poll: The Tea
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Time Magazine and Jon Stewart have taken up a cause that I think is long overdue. Calling out Fox News for its blatant lies and self-deceptions about how the Fox News Network itself deliberately lies and deceives the public all too often on its news broadcasts. News media cannot afford such muddying the truth and
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Looking for commentary on the current ugly Apple versus Adobe confrontation on the banning of Flash from the Apple Mobile Lite lineup of products [currently, iPod, Ipad, iPhone] I Stumbled on the Cult of Mac website. Cult of Mac had the returning shot across the bow by Adobe Flash Product Evangelist Lee Brimelow after Apple’s
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If Gizmodo and Wired are to be believed, Apple is leading the way to a new computing paradigm – lite, bright, easy to setup and use, long battery lifed computing and communication devices. Call it the Mobile Lineup made up of iPod, iPad, and iPhone currently. But Apple has is taking a risky road because
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Frank Rich in a NYTimes editorial entitled No One Is To Blame skewers two notions – 1)that Liberal Media lacks punch when confronting the Democrats and the Obama administration with their misdeeds and 2)elite political and economic leaders are a)spreading the blame and b)getting away with gross negligence if not outright misconduct without suffering any
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One of the problems of the Financial Reforms before Congress is that simple things are not being done. It harkens back to the days of the Antitrust case against Microsoft. All sorts of breakup scenarios were tried-ballooned and then time ran out as Bush was declared President. Simple things like saying the IE browser and
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Will the Creative Disruption that will be taking place in Scrabble this late Spring be gaga-allowed or Lady Gaga – now allowed too. This all comes about as as Mattel, “Makers of Scrabble” [Hasbro is so far saying “no thank you” for its North American edition of the game], changes the rules of the game
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Google is out again with much more Bing-like Search Results Since November 2009 Google has from time to time been changing its interface for Search results – and clearly what I have experienced is now out in the wild again according to SearchEngineLand. And the new interface is very nice indeed – it brings Advanced
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The New York Times Business section has a review of the book Green Gone Wrong in which the reviewer finds the book partially on target. Much like Bill Maher’s If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Bin-Laden, the major complaint with Green Gone Wrong is that it does not level with the reading public on
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It is very puzzling how the Republican Party can maintain so much party discipline and consistently obtain so many unanimous all no votes in both Houses of Congress. Perhaps the recent dismissal of Republican Analysts David Frum from the AEI-American Enterprise Institute may shed some light on this incredible solidarity in GOP voting. One current
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The idea of a independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency is gaining traction again as seen in this Huffington Post . Could the following LOL comic skit be contributing to the momentum? The problem for the GOP opposition is that they do not want to be on the opposite side of popular and Tea Party sentiment
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The News is Wikipedia being used for Breaking News. Over the past few years Wikipedia has become a more accepted source for historical fact and scientific reference. Although open to editing by anyone – although an IP address is recorded and registering is encouraged, Wikipedia has been able to setup a system of guidlines, rules
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Tom Friedman at the NYTimes has an absolutely great post on the toxic nature of the leadership in Afghanistan by Hamid Karzai. It appears the Obama Administration has gotten themselves tied to two “leaders” of very dubious value in MidEast and Terrorist politics[think Karzai and Netanyahu]. The key questions the Obama Administration has to answer
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The April issue of Scientific American is crammed with good articles this month. There are the 8 Wonders of the Solar System and a superior article on how the many deep problems of psychology and psychiatry can now be traced to improper wiring, relative to the norm, of various brain areas. Thus such problems as
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UPDATE: Netanyahu Nyets any Accommodation/Freeze on Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Lands The US and UN will have to look at Plan B to rein in Israeli Intransigence Despite warnings from the US and Rebuke from Britain, Israel continues to increase Jewish-only settlements in disputed territories in Palestine/Israel. Despite several warnings from various US leaders the
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Jane’s Walk is one of those best-ideas-since-Peanut-Butter events. Very simply people go for a walk on the weekend of May 1-2 in 25 cities in the US or 35 cities in Canada or 2 cities [so far] in Europe. Yes, a walk – a free guided tour telling the history of an urban area including
Bob Hebert has written an article, An Absence of Class, that officially puts the GOP on notice for being the most dysfunctional party in the USA. The Republican Party is clinging to a strategy of divisiveness, intolerance, and calculated fear-mongering with little recourse to moderation nor providing substantive alternative policy. Here are some of the
The following is the picture for Climate Change in Canada this past winter – December 2009 through February 2010. Note the great swaths of the the North in Canada that are seeing temperatures well above normal – as much as 7.5 degrees Celsius. Now context is everything because what is not shown is the temperatures
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UPDATE2: Washington Post calls decision a watershed, Android is delayed on China Mobile, etc. UPDATE: Google moved its search site to HongKong where it can deliver uncensored searches.What is uncertain is how China will react. China already blocks YouTube will it do the same for Google Maps, Apps, and Voice? What happens with Google Android
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UPDATE: Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not the Mensch the US seeks. Netanyahu declares that Israel would not stop Jewish settlements around Jerusalem. Yet again the New York Times reports of this macabre dance in Israel: Israeli Troops Kill Two Palestinians in West Bank This is the same damned dance of death that
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Barry Blitt and Frank Rich have a great commentary today on what is next on the Obama agenda – Financial Reforms. And Frank implies in his editorial that given the public mood Obama has a decided advantage in making these reforms – the almost unanimously opposing Republicans will be sealing their status as the Party
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Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft is playing serious catchup in 4 big markets. Google search is the obvious one and despite Bing Search it is going to be a long, tough row to hoe. But the other 3 problems all have common themes. First, they involve UI innovations as a major factor. Second, they involve Microsoft coming
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More often than not I am getting the following notice while using Google on Google’s own Chrome browser: Now the problem is I have so many tabs open that it is not easy to just restart like now. However, I can say that google.com is working just fine in other browsers which give no such
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Today is the day when Senator Chris Dodd reveals his final package for Financial Reforms – it should be as interesting as the Microsoft reveal is also today on Web Standards. Redmond decrees what, how much and how quickly it will embrace both old[promised but never delivered] and new Web Standards its going to embrace
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Stephen Colbert has done a delicious send up of the News Media’s decided shift towards Infotainment with his Report on Afghanistan. True to form, Engadget has done today an “Afghanistan story” about the Apple vs Google conflict – its a great parody only capped by the final punchline Apple has a long enduring rivalry with
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Update: NYTimes reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu Offers Apology, but No Shift in Policy This blog has mixed no metaphors in saying that the Jewish Settlement Policy on the West Bank and in Jerusalem has been one of the greatest detriments to US Foreign Policy in the important Islamic World. The current map of Israeli
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2011 will mark the 20th year of Linux and close to the 40th anniversary of Unix The Unix/Linux Family Tree so its worthwhile noting the family tree and who is who among the operating system players of note in their use of Unix/Linux. Apple MacOS = has strong Unix/Linux heritage through NextStep and Andrew HPUX
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Good and True History is important so that past mistakes are not repeated – or false excuses for what was done are exposed for frauds and appropriate parties discredited if not prosecuted. Nowhere is good history more important than in the case of the just past financial meltdown of 2007-2009. Hopefully it does not linger
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Who pays what in taxes is about wealth and whether it pays its fair share of taxes – leave aside the question of whether the distribution of income and wealth is equitable. Here is the distribution of wealth in America as of 2007: Here is the distribution tax payers in the US as of 2009:
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