As the US hurtles towards mid-term elections in which Supreme Court blessed campaign financing has tripled relative to the 2006 midterms, the People discover once again that their Bankers have fcuked Fiduciary Trust, Rule of Law and the People once again by Fcuking Foreclosures with gross negligence and legal fraud. Paul Krugman at the NYTimes […]
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Adobe’s Flash is making a comeback despite the petulance of Apple’s Steve Jobs. Adobe is rising because of AIR and Flash. Can you imagine such a turnaround? 9 months after being pilloried unmercifully [and unjustifiably] by Mr. America Innovates, Adobe’s Flash is staging a huge comeback. One can see it in the many design-wins in
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It has been said here before but now that Marketwatch’s Darrell Delamaide agrees – it bears repeating. The Achilles Heal for President Obama appears to be his nominal interest in, flawed understanding of and/or declining excellence of his advisors in Economics and Governance. Darrell argues that it will not be the GOP but the Herbert
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RIM is the Rodney Dangerfield of electronic gadget development – they get no respect. How can a Waterloo Canada firm possibly beat the likes of Silicon Valley stalwarts Apple and Google ? But with the announcement of the RIM Playbook Tablet, RIM scored very big with some very astute software engineering. But first lets us
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Having just endured an epithet laced derision of all things socialist from a well-to-do friend, Your Takethe5th editor could empathize first hand with Paul Krugman’s editorial about The Angry Rich. Yes, its true they are very angry – not just my friend but an echo experiences attending a Board of Trade meeting and other social
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The PC market is seeing a profound split or forking in the road on how Computing is served to the public. It is creative versus utility usage. The result should see in the next 2-3 years a profound drop of 30-70% in classic PC sales [think desktop, laptops and most clamshell notebooks]. PCs will be
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With the iPad, Apple created the 1/2 of the DOC – Display Only Computer, a highly portable, light, full day of work device. The iPad is targeted for media play, gaming and Web surfing. The key innovation was no keyboard or mouse attached to this iBeauty – multi-touch and gestures would do thank you very
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Microsoft has decided to strike back at Apple. One cannot forget the Apple ads that derided the PC so effectively over the past year or two – Windows Vista presented such an inviting target. But now with Windows 7 improvements and Mac prices going ever higher relative to the equivalent PC, Redmond has launched its
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The New York Times has an intriguing story about an major art exhibition in Vienna of over 200 pieces from the North Korea Art Gallery Pyongyang. “North Korea you say … what art do they have ? -Its is all propaganda.” And you would be right as this slideshow demonstrates – the picture above is
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RIM is the Rodney Dangerfield of smartphone providers – it gets no respect. Need an example – here is the killing lines from the Gizmodo review of the recently announced Torch 9800 with the new Blackberry OS6 driving it: The distillation of this grand mishmash of observations and scenarios is this: BlackBerry isn’t good enough
