Technology
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Fixations
Microsoft (market cap $182 billion) is fixated on Google. Google (market cap $122 billion) is fixated on Facebook. Facebook (market cap ~$3 billon) is fixated on Twitter. Who or what is Twitter fixated on? Revenue? Uptime? Oprah? Rolling up the $300 billion in market cap chasing them?
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From an Undisclosed Location
Somewhere, the team of guards that has been keeping Scott McNealy gagged and under lock and key in recent years has been doubled and they’ve taken to sedating him to ensure he doesn’t pop off about the prospect of IBM buying Sun and perhaps prevent Sun from being put out of their (and our) misery…
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Sony and the Joy of Overpriced Netbooks
Only Sony could produce a netbook that costs $900. Their clever strategy: declare that it isn’t a netbook. Let’s see small size, a small screen short on vertical resolution, an awkward keyboard, limited storage, wireless broadband, comes in multiple colors — sure smells like a netbook to me. How is this three times better than…