Posted by John Dvorak | September 29th, 2010
Techcrunch Disrupt ends. HP dumps Android OS. Lucas to bring out Star Wars in 3D. Meanwhile 3DS will not be out in time for Christmas. Should Facebook buy Skype? Net Neutrality bill is dead. Next year’s Apple iPad sounds like the winner. Details within. Blackberry going to QNX and the company proud of its low number of apps. Texting makes people drive safer? Horsecrap. Amazon doing an Android app store. Hulu Plus on Roku and Tivo. E-books get children to read more.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 28th, 2010
Techcrunch goes to AOL. That should be interesting. Rim Playbook released. Texting while driving not as harmful as they say. Apple TV analysis going on. Twitter finding ways to make money. Is Google building a Serendipity engine? Sounds like a scam. UFO’s apparently saving the world. Cripes. New Sony-Ericsson phone make promises. Open Office forks. Microsoft gives up on blogging. And guess what?
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 23rd, 2010
Stuxnet virus becoming the rage in the news. Watch it grow. Here comes something called Super Wi-Fi. Yawn. Mark Zuckerberg pledges millions to Newark, NJ schools. Meanwhile Facebook flakes out. Facebook Smartphone comes and goes and comes and goes. Poor science education sinking USA economy. Spanish court sides with Google. RIM Blackberry tablet ramping up as is HP Win 7 pad. Ugh. Einstein sez you may live longer if…
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 22nd, 2010
Oracle World going full tilt in SF. Michael Dell attends. Rumor abounds that the Oracle may buy HP. IBM to buy Brocade? Perhaps. DSL hitting 700 Mbps. Where? Schools and libraries will get fiber from government. Twitter attack not my fault. Autumn begins. Jet Blue setting up Wi-Fi on planes.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 16th, 2010
MSFT has PR machine cranked to the max with IE9 stories. Meanwhile Verizon holding off on Win Phone7 Phones. The miserable AT&T pushing 4G. PS3 getting Blu-ray 3D. Space taxi coming by 2016. Skyhook lawsuit of Google looks dirty already. Motorola tablet coming in 2011. Dell to drop $100 billion to expand its China operations.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 15th, 2010
IE 9 hits the streets. Apple setting up newspaper subscriptions
Posted by John Dvorak | September 14th, 2010
New Twitter on the loose. Nokia sticking with “design” as key to success. Interesting research says few people actually use cell phone apps. What? Then again the total number of people using these phones is huge. Bing beat Yahoo. Steve Jobs supposedly caught trying to get on plane with Ninja Stars. You know, the weapons! Nokia Chaiman stepping down in 2012. The Master key of HDCP protection on Blu-Ray may be compromised. Uh-oh. Intel gets into the app store game for Net Books.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 13th, 2010
Nokia weirdness. People quitting over the new Microsoft CEO. Amazon goes after the iPad. Walmart getting into data plans. Intel supposedly shifting gears on the world of chips. Live Tube all over the news. FCC releasing white space to WiFi. Zukerberg call users “dumbfux.” Birthday for Mario Brothers. Microsoft pulls a fast one on corrupt police in Russia. Where is the fastest Internet in the USA? Listen and find out.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 8th, 2010
Google Instant goes live. Very cool sez me. Go to www.crankygeeks.com to get more information. iPod nine years old. Time flies. Verbal Facebook updates and text coming. Asteroid has its picture taken. Understanding Google and Apple TV revealed. Google logo explodes. T-Mobile may get iPhone. Lots of weird Samsung free PR. Lots of talk, no action. Ping spruced up they say.
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Posted by John Dvorak | September 7th, 2010
HP filing suit against Oracle over hiring Mark Hurd. Google TV coming in 2011. Craigslist in the news about hookers. Read my PCMag column on the subject at www.pcmag.com . Smart phone future: they get it wrong. BP spent millions on Google search results. Samsung getting into the processor game. Intel lurks. ACLU sues USA over laptops being scanned at the border.
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