Posted by John Dvorak | March 31st, 2009
Everyone is preoccupied with Conficker. I have one simple question. Hear it hear now. HP may use Android OS for computers, PS2 going to $100. Or is it a joke? Gartner says cloud is getting all the money. American Airlines to put Wi-Fi hotspots in their planes. Wiki Search killed. They cannot afford to keep it going. Netflix going to $8 month for Blu-ray. Honda making robots that read brain waves. Howard Stern to market the Palm Pre.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 30th, 2009
Conficker looking at the Conficker virus. Xeon 550 considered transformational. Microsoft is killing Encarta. Turned out to be a fiasco. Video games improve eyesight. WDC buys SSD company, goes silicon. Why not? Look for Orion Moon to Mars launcher. IBM tries to patent the whole idea of offshoring. Mark Cuban fined for Twittering. I read Motley Fools Five Reasons Dell should buy Palm.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 26th, 2009
Apple sued over various infringements concerning the iPhone. This will never end. This Saturday is turn off the light day at 8:30 PM. AT&T will act as a cop for the RIAA. Conficker worm aiming at April 1st. Get ready. Fairchild cutting back. The Open Cloud movement begins to develop. MSFT not happy. Fallout 3 wins best game of the year. Best Buy looking good according to experts. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com. Code: Tech.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 25th, 2009
Blockbuster doing a deal with TiVo to deliver movies. Cranky Geeks no longer on TiVo. Complaints building in China over censorship of YouTube. PA Sexting girls suing the DA over his threats. Otellini says Intel will buy Sun. New Canon camera. Psybot infects routers. Sun CEO sees open source as a gateway to the clouds. Sprint WiMAX in 10 cities.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 24th, 2009
Google changing strategy and adopting the semantic search model. Dell says it will release an iPhone killer. Oh really? iPhone sued over being used as a book reader. Suse Linux 11 hopes to take over data centers. IBM and Wyse getting together to re-introduce thin client computing. Win7 being changed as expected. Red Hat to be bought by Oracle? More 3D theaters coming soon. Steve Pearlman introduces OnLive. I call it Cloud Gaming.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 23rd, 2009
Sony-Ericsson to stay in place. Apple iPhone all over the news with weird stories and gossip. I reveal it here. Microsoft IE8 flopping. People bailing out already! Dell to Buy Palm? Why mot? Al Gore fuss over his speech. I suspect a publicity stunt. IBM Sun deal seems to be fading. Linux World to become Open Source World. Gartner has dire predicton. You will not like what you hear.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 19th, 2009
Cisco to buy vid cam company. MSFT IE8 supposedly great. New iPhone models coming? Someone thinks so. Google backs Sony reader. AT&T to sell iPhones without contracts. Birds dying off, they say. New Mozilla mobile browser. Dell Adamo made in China by Quanta. Apple sells HD now. Safari hacked. IBM-Sun merger called anti-competitive. By who? Sony freezes salaries. Google apps to be shut down by government? Why? Cadillac has Internet in the car itself. Visit: www.Squarespace.com use the code "Tech."
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 18th, 2009
Will IBM buy Sun? Something called Open Cloud Computing is in the conversation. 1480 stories about iPhone cut and paste. A new flying car in the news. Dinosaurs found with fuzz on them. Amazon sued over Kindle. New Fujitsu reader comes along. Psystar does new Apple clone. Cranky Geeks does a good take on AMD-Intel suit. Meanwhile AMD server chips beat Intel.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 17th, 2009
Dell Adamo Laptop getting a lot of ink. Dell stakes claim to the world’s thinnest machine. Silverlight 3 the target of Microsoft attention. Cisco still in the news. Cisco embraces Open Source? Why? MySQL injection out of control. Three new Android phones coming. Windows 7 may not drive demand. Why not? Lots of weird start-ups showing off at SXSW event in Austin. UWB standards group shut down. Sigh. IDC says that the economic downturn will drive Linux sales up.
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Posted by John Dvorak | March 16th, 2009
Apple supposedly bringing out cut and paste for iPhone! So what? Cisco brings out what they call a server-computer. SXSW conference appears to have overloaded the local 3G network from too many iPhones. Ha. Meanwhile Apple Mac sales down 16-percent. Decline will continue, they say. Creepy robot runway model developed. MSFT looks to have a release candidate for Windows 7 in May. Intel pulls license from AMD. Opera Turbo in the news. Inventor of the Web conned online. Oracle gives up on MySQL.
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