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Really Targeted Advertising

I don’t know whether to be awed or scared by the ingenuity and tech or be afraid. Just goes to show that even Google’s apparently altruistic projects can be turned to profit.

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RIM Doesn’t Have a Clue (According to them)

According to the New York Times Article… Features have proliferated on BlackBerrys as part of RIM’s move to the broader consumer market, and so have the number of models. Since 2007, RIM has introduced 37 models. The company, in a statement, said it did not know how many models were on the market. How can [...]

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Homeland Security Sno-Cones

Guess that have to spend our tax dollars some place. via Schneier on Security

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Martha Stewart Should Have Run For Congress

She could have avoided jail time and probably gotten better information. Plus she could have done it in the open and avoid those pesky false statement charges.

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Think of the Children

Naturally Amazon is getting flack for not protecting the children from their content. I would think a bigger concern is that if you give kids a Kindle and they are able to see Prime Videos they are then able to buy anything they want. At least until they max out your credit card. Just saying…

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Government Making Sense!

I never understood why AT&T would be allowed to withdraw their merger related application with the FCC while continuing on with the DOJ. It sounded like they were trying to play one against the other. They didn’t want the DOJ to know what was in their FCC app and they thought DOJ approval would then [...]

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Stop the Madness

Yet another rumor about Bill Gates returning to Microsoft. The idea seems completely bizarre. Naturally the source is unnamed. But Fortune mag is able to spin it as an “analysis/what if” story so they won’t technically be wrong if someone else replaces Ballmer. Of course there’s no specifics so they won’t be completely wrong until [...]

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