From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Well, that is one way to generate revenue.

October 30, 2009

Facebook was awarded $711 million dollars as a default judgment against “spam king” on Thursday. I don’t know why the guy even bothers continuing or how he isn’t in jail or otherwise kept from doing what he does because he has been sued by a lot of heavy hitters, including the FTC. According to this [...]

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Everything Old is New Again

October 29, 2009

I remained stunned again today to hear that there are pirates still in existence in this modern age. So, I think everything old is new again. I recently saw a map of where the internet is, and although it seems there are pockets everywhere, for the most part it is firmly rooted in countries one [...]

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Twitter over Capacity?

October 29, 2009

I got this today. But it was the launch of the Twitter lists feature, which they don’t want Tweeted about for some reason. Maybe they are being coy.

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So, Google maps the decline of GPS Companies.

October 29, 2009

With the launch of the Droid, and Google Turn-By-Turn maps, you will probably see antitrust lawsuits coming from TomTom and Garmin; what the basis will be is unknown, but I’m going to predict something will come of this. In two days, we’ve seen up to a 30% decline in the stocks of the two leading [...]

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One of these Mortgage Rates is not like the Other

October 28, 2009

I don’t know whats going on, but we have to move. And it isn’t a good market to do that. But, I decided to look at the mortgage rates for a house that I would love to get; Sitting on nearly 6 acres… I was about to go down a road I’m trying to ignore. [...]

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Can GPS Companies Navigate a World with Google?

October 28, 2009

With the release of DROID by Motorola and Google, companies that focus on providing GPS navigation equipment have taken a beating. The graphic is of Garmin’s stock today, immediately after the announcement of DROID having Google Turn-by-Turn navigation, it dropped like a rock and it will be tough to pick it back up. If Google [...]

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TabletFan.com is off on its own.

October 28, 2009

I’ve pushed TabletFan.com off to its own, it used to link here, but with the upcoming release of the Apple tablet; I’m going to refocus the blog on that particular product. I have always been a fan of the Tablet platform; no keyboard, writing, touch interface, light weight, no folding anything. It is just a [...]

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The Biggest hit to Apple domination? Google embracing only Android.

October 28, 2009

Google could put a hurt on Apple if it decides to avoid the Apple platform completely. With its maps already embedded on the Apple iPhone platform, it launched a powerful tool into the Android armory; Google Maps. The blogspace is all a twitter over it as usual. We all have a particular take on it, [...]

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So, this blog is about Ethics, Technology, and Business, but sometimes Humor Wins.

October 28, 2009

The San Francisco Chronicle posted something today that has me rolling on the floor. I used to live in California, but left it for the DC/Metro area nearly 6 years ago… I haven’t had to witness directly, the things that are going on in California; I do hear about it occasionally; like housing prices halving [...]

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The City of Los Angeles outsources to Google Apps

October 28, 2009

Wow. Just Wow. Google has been able to secure a small bonanza in the form of 30,000 customers through Los Angeles porting over its mail system to Google. Something I find rather odd. I understand they are trying to save costs, it is California afterall and they are in financial turmoil, but what now? If [...]

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iPhone can not win? It already has.

October 28, 2009

Sorry Mr. Wilcox over at Betanews.com, I disagree. I don’t know how you can suggest that the iPhone won’t win, or can’t win the smart device war: “Put another way: iPhone is to Android — and somewhat Symbian OS — handsets as Macintosh was to the DOS/Windows PC in the 1980s and 1990s. The Mac’s [...]

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Android 2.0 SDK Domination of the Blogs

October 28, 2009

You might notice that Android is slowly taking over the tech blogs. I think competition is great, so Android becoming a big topic encourages other companies to develop and/or enhance their own offerings. I thought it was great that Techmeme.com showed the following list, and I’m not sure why The Huffington Post is on the [...]

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Another "One that Got Away" discovery, the nondrip gravy boat.

October 25, 2009

We’ve all had family gatherings, but I don’t know how many of you have witnessed the frustration and thought about how to solve… the dripping gravy boat. Well, more than 5 years ago, I was at my in-laws house for Thanksgiving. Between friendly and family banter, I tried to pour some gravy from the gravy [...]

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The Breadth and Depth of Searching the Net

October 25, 2009

Google is such a great tool, but I’ve just begun to follow what people follow online. For an example, these are the top 40 items that are being searched for at Google.com, and I’m simply fascinated by the scope of topics people searched for. This is about an hour ago, or about 8pm EST on [...]

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The Internet is not as Anonymous as you might think.

October 23, 2009

Several issues have been going on for awhile, the idea of trolling has been around since BBS’s back in the day ::makes grunting sounds as he gets up::  and it only gets worse as more people come online. The freedom of anonymity is empowering. But the problem lies in the fact that you aren’t anonymous. [...]

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