Steve Jobs and Apple are getting headline stories about the declaration of the Post PC Era; but the reality is that Post PC era started at least 10 years ago. The catalyst has been the fact that Microsoft with its ironclad monopoly wiped out a creative ecosystem around the PC [just look at the software […]
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Want to know why jobs are not coming back anytime soon and why Washington ignores what is being requested by the public in poll after poll? It is all a case of Supreme Court powered $dollar-votes being courted slavishly by both political parties for the upcoming Presidential Elections. Listening to the political pundits on the Sunday
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Why be the Republican Presidential Candidate in 2012? The prospect is daunting given at best the titular power but the more likely fractious power accorded to the 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. It is definitely not fear of President Obama who has flunked Economics 101 by accepting ” Trickle Down, Rescue the Financial System first and
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Perhaps it is fitting that on the anniversary of the Flash Crash on the NYSE last May when the Dow Jones Index fell by nearly 1000 points, the markets got a reminder of how speculation still rules the roost. The day before oil prices fell by 10%, silver by another 8%, and commodity prices across
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There is a tsunami of mindless pap that permeates the Media Beacon – call it the Shrill Shills. These dual edge headlines perched atop every story are designed to capture attention for 15 seconds or however long it takes to imbibe 140 characters of mass communications. But the shills are craving more than attention these
Birthers do not believe that Barack Obama was born in the USA. Despite the birth certificate and the notification of birth in several Honolulu newpapers. Over 50% of Republicans believe the Birther myth while only 33% of Republicans definitely acknowledge that Obama was born in the US. This is the topic of much analysis including the
Being deliberately irrational has become the modus operandi for the GOP as the party of Political Conservatives. However, in recent months, the conservative norms have taken ever more extreme forms including the deliberately irrational or mendacious. Take the latter and Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona who declared in the Senate that 90% of Planned
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Android and therefore Linux is finally emerging as a major PC operating system. Tablets like Motorola Xoom, Motorola Atrix, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablets already put Linux/Android in a more active role on tablets while Android has just taken top position in the smartphones market. But the clincher will be the emergence
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Watching Meet the Press on NBC the last two Sundays, I found the Moral Amnesia of guests Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Mike Lee, both Tea party members, so astonishing and morally vacuous. Here are two champions of Deficit Cutting who speak with almost complete amnesia about how the deficits were amassed – they are
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Who said this? …Republicans should understand that when self-described conservatives such as Malzberg [or Trump]voice question-rants like the one above and Republicans do not recoil from them, the conservative party is indirectly injured. As it is directly when Newt Gingrich, who seems to be theatrically tiptoeing toward a presidential candidacy, speculates about Obama having a “Kenyan,
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