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Google Announces 2007 New York City Speaker Series

Google announced today that they will be starting their New York speaker series on January 29th at their new NY offices “to share their unique perspectives.” This first of the year talk is labeled “Physics, Speed, and Imprecision: What Works and What Doesn’t in Software, and Why” given by Google’s Adam Bosworth.
“Adam will discuss why […]

Google’s Chooses N.C. for new Server Farm

Google apparently got a pretty sweat deal by pitting two counties against each other to bid on which one would get the new Google plant. They were throwing around land, incentives and huge tax breaks. Lenoir in Caldwell County, North Carolina eventually won; well I would say that Google actually won. In fact they were […]

MOTO to CUTO … 3500 Jobs That Is

Motorola CEO Ed Zander said Friday the cell-phone maker will cut 3,500 jobs, or 5% of its workforce, as it moves to improve operating costs after a disappointing fourth quarter.
Zander, speaking to analysts at a meeting in New York, said the move will save the company about $400 million over two years. The cuts from […]

Potty humor? Scott Tissue Asks Customers to Share “Cloggiest Moment”

Ok this is pretty sick … but hey you could win $25,000 in CASH just for submitting your “cloggiest moment”.
If you’ve got a “moment” you want to share, check out the official rules. Essays will be judged on “creative description and inopportune nature of the situation, emotional depiction of the reaction to the inopportune […]

Half of Apple’s iPhone Price Expected to be Pure Profit

Now that’s a good deal … umm for Apple that is.
Yeah, so since this made “news” to the public, let’s hope this will drive down the price of the iPhone when it’s release (because I want one).
Here’s a clip from PC Mag:
According to a preliminary bill-of-materials estimate by iSuppli, the $399 Apple iPhone could net […]

Apple’s Best Quarter Ever - $1 Billion Dollar Profit

Apple reported some good news today … they had $7 Billion in revenues that equaled $1 Billion in profit … all in only ONE  STINKIN QUARTER … Dang!
Thanks to selling a sick amount of iPods (21.1 million worth) over the holidays.
“We are incredibly pleased to report record quarterly revenue of over $7 billion and record […]

Using Google Reader to keep track of Industry News

Google Reader releases some news on their blog on how to use it for keeping track of industry news. Below is quoted from Nick Baum:
… I subscribe to the Google Blogsearch for “Google Reader” (which has a feed) so I know whenever someone writes about our product.
In the TV show 24, everything is not as […]

Netflix Stepping up their Game to Keep up with BlockBuster

I’m sure everyone’s heard the news already, but if you haven’t … Netflix is now offering a new streaming video service to their subscribers. TechCrunch writer Michael Arrington has a funny (but legitimate) post on his blog today that is a follow-up to a post he made last month about how he was finished with […]

What if Google had Yahoo’s Designer?

This is so funny … but true. The above is from GoogleWatch.com (click it for larger view), but really what if? Google truly does lack in the graphical design dept and it’s definately Yahoo does well.
GoogleWatch.com

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone Trademark

 
We saw this one coming …
UPDATE: Cisco Systems has filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of infringing its iPhone trademark, the networking company said Wednesday. The suit also accuses the iPod maker used a front company to try to acquire rights to the name. More …