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Google is just an amoral menace — The ever-growing empire produces nothing but seems determined to control everything — If indeed a new era of global responsibility has come into being with measures that actually restrain banks and isolate tax havens, it may be time for the planet's …

I'm A PC. Keep The Change. — Microsoft was built by engineers. Marketing has always been its weak spot. But its new ads poking fun at Apple hit the mark. — From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009 — She is an unlikely assassin—a cute young woman with long red hair, geeky glasses and a funky scarf.
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Another Microsoft Ad That Ignores Windows — Tired of all the banter about Lauren, the lady who spurned the 17-inch MacBook Pro for an HP laptop? Meet Giampaolo, the newest protagonist in Microsoft's “Laptop Hunters” ad campaign for Windows: — The format of the commercial is the same as the …


Dell netbook roadmap leaks out, get ready for the Mini 11 — Oop, it looks like a Dell middle manager somewhere got a little too excited and let a full set of netbook roadmap slides leak out. The biggest news is a planned Mini 11 due sometime between now and the end of Q3 …
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Some quick thoughts about Google versus the newspapers … Rupert Murdoch has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with his comments about Google: … Some people will paint this as an old-media dinosaur not understanding new media, but I'm not so sure. If you've read Michael Wolff's biography …


Is This the Future of the Digital Book? — PLENTY of authors dream of writing the great American novel. — Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital reading devices.


Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics — In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. — Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced …


Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows — Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.

Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them — In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

Why Google should want Twitter: Currency — Here's a good clue as to why Google should be interested in Twitter. It's not just search. It's currency. Google isn't good at currency. It needs content to ferment; it needs links and clicks to collect so PageRank can determine its value.


Next-gen iPod touch, iPhone to support low-power 802.11n — Wireless radio component specifications contained within beta distributions of iPhone 3.0 firmware reveal support for a new chip enabling low power 802.11n that's bound for Apple's third-generation iPod touch.


Online vs Print, and the Evolution of Media — Here are a few random thoughts I've had recently about blogging, online media and traditional print media. — Online Ads vs Newspaper Ads — Here's a promising chart for all online-media folk published by Alley Insider.