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Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademark

Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademarkSo now...The Russian Mafia can turn up your heat. Cool!RE: Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademarkYou know the Intergalatic Union of Fairy Princesses will not be pleased to read this...and you don't want to get them pissed off! :DLearning from Apple?I wonder who will...

Tags: INSANITY, patent, iLawyer, Microsoft Corp., Nintendo Wii

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Windows Mobile: it drove me to insanity

Windows Mobile: it drove me to insanityI stopped reading after this line[i]There?s no easy way to make phone calls either, a key feature I?m sure you will agree in a mobile device.Instead, you have go to to the Start menu and select the Phone applications.[/i]The Touch Pro can make calls...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Wireless and Mobility, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, insanity, mobile, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...

Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?

Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?Yes, the awards are completely outrageous.That would be like you inventing a 10 dollar switch an Ford comes along and not paying you for the idea and you get an infringing award of $100 on each car instead of the added value of...

Tags: disincentive, inventor, Patent Reform, insanity, patent

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

China virtual police to patrol for online porn

China virtual police to patrol for online pornBoycot China!The USA and Europe should block internet access to China and every other country that doesn't support freedom of speech. Problem solved.George Orwell's "1984"If you've ever read the book "1984" by George Orwell, you'll know what i'm thinking. I am not defendign...

Tags: Amerika, insanity, online porn

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

Additional Resources

Public healthcare could spur Silicon Valley innovation and create jobs

California is Bankrupt ... ??????Barry Sorento is bankrupting the USS of A$7,000,000,000,000 TRILLION in debt andit is more than a TRILLION more makingit $8,000,000,000,000 and unemployment is the highest in 25 years!INSANITY!The dollar is ranked 48th in the world nowOboma is a genius at destroying the economy!

Tags: health care, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Head cracking time on health care reform

"And I can get back to writing about tech."NO - get to writing about TECH now - and stop using this site for your liberal soapboxing!the only head that will crack wil be Obama'sReal Americans are concerned about deficit, death panels and the slippery slope to socialism.This 'reform' will fail...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, soapboxing, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Google Chrome Frame ... Chrome performance for IE users!

Global governments should move this forwardGlobal governments should take the lead, to promote open web standards, by requiring all government agencies still utilizing IE to install this plug-in (or alternatively, upgrade to a modern web browser).This would:1. Bring government browsers into compliance, with the latest modern web standards.2. Increase agency...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Web browser, IE Users, Chrome performance, Web, performance, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future

Nothing but lies...When will this lie stop, no different than Lenin quoted, if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth.There is NO evidence of this and it is ludicrous that everything will be electric. The power grid cannot even support what we have now, so now it is...

Tags: Obama, global warming, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Thieves ransack NJ Apple Store in 31 seconds

WowSomething tells me they had this planned out in advance...Who is this reporter?He makes it sound like these guys were criminal masterminds."Throwing a blunt object through the plate glass window like pros."How is that a pro move? "Me pick up brick and throw it through window."Honestly...he picks the brick, he...

Tags: GPS, NJ Apple Store

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices

In 3 Years, Apple Will Take Credit For ItOne of my FanBoy friends, who died a couple years ago, swore that Apple invented the USB. Not really any different than Apple's commercial advertising now.Oh well, give me more speed, no matter what !Sweet...been waiting for USB 3.0 to hit the...

Tags: USB, USB 3.0, SuperSpeed

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Browser-based mobile apps need to get better in a hurry

Apple has pulled Google Voice-based apps from its App Store, notably GV Mobile, in a move that highlights quite a mobile conundrum. Native apps are way better on mobile phones, but browser-based apps may be the only way to circumvent all of the carrier-device maker deals, store approval processes and...

Tags: Mobile, Web Application, Web Browser, App, Native App, Native Application, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers

Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readersAnyone else think e-readers are a good idea?Whether amazon or anyone else, the ability to edit content remotely or to remove content outright should be disturbing.You can argue an e-textbook could benefit from on-the-fly edits and revisions, but it is...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Common-sense, Smart People, eBook Readers, e-book, digital-rights management, Kindle Reader, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Apple and Google's native vs. Web app iPhone game: Get used to it

Apple and Google's native vs. Web app iPhone game: Get used to itUh, hello, Palm Pre's webOSThe article concludes "... it is becoming increasingly clear that Android may be the only real rival for the iPhone on the operating system and app front."For an article on ZD Net, that...

Tags: cloud computing, Channel management, Smart phones, game, Web application, Google Inc., Web, Apple Inc., Web app iPhone, Web app iPhone game, Get Used

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technologyHere comes the patent trolls, sigh.The patent trolls strike again.IMHO we should have "use it or lose it" laws in the patent system: If you don't use a patent in an actual product, you risk losing it and can't renew it.Not to...

Tags: patent, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Chinese worker commits suicide after losing prototype iPhone 4G (updated)

VentureBeat reports via News reports coming out of China that 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide on July 9 after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. Danyong worked for Foxconn in Shenzhen in Guangdong province near Hong Kong which manufacturers iPhones for Apple. According to VB...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 4G, Apartment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Suicide, Worker, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?

Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?The solution to bad government.............is not [i]more[/i] government, but [i]less[/i] government.Odd how you start the article by citing all the problems government is causing with the internet, and then suggest that [i]another[/i] government would somehow change things.What was that about the...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, Internet Government, Internet, Web 2.5, Is It Time, IS IT, Web

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

New carbon emissions tracker is focused on professional services organizations

New carbon emissions tracker is focused on professional services organizationsTotal insanity..... Everyone stop using oil & electricityAttention all 'amerikan comrades' you are hereby ordered to cease all uses of electricity, oil and of course eating any meat products.You are also ordered to report to the re-education Obamasiah camps for climate...

Tags: carbon emissions tracker, professional services organization, professional services

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Global warming will force dictionary re-write

Global warming will force dictionary re-writeLose some gain some?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5301082/Climate-change-The-elements-conspire-against-the-warmists.htmlAnd elsewhere I read that sun spot activity is very very low and the experts don?t know why.Let's all please be cautious about what we understand and what we don't. And what we can predict and what we can't.The hole in the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-05-13