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New Year’s Tech Resolutions (via TechCrunch)

This is a great list from Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch on this year’s new Tech Resolutions …. (I love the last one) …
Okay, I know, I’m late with these, but coming up with New Year’s resolutions is tough. And isn’t there a one-week grace period anyway? Rather than do predictions, I thought I’d offer […]

Big Pharma Spends Almost Double On Advertising, Compared with R & D

ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2008) — A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry’s claim.
he researchers’ estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the industry and doctors during 2004, […]

DomainTools January 3rd Live Auction List Announced

UPDATE: The Live Auctions is now Open for bidding. Now until January 10th. Take a look or start bidding.
DomainTools.com announced that it’s having their next Live Auction on Janurary 3rd. Out of over 2000 domain submissions only 170 made the cut (I actually was able to get three on the list - simplyfrench.com, aboutwifi.com, […]

Check Flight Status right from Google.com

Google annouced they can now deliver real time status and info on your flights directly on the search results page (Google.com). Just type the name of the airline and flight number (e.g. American 123, ua226) into the search box, and they’ll return the most up to date information from FlightStats.com. Pretty cool and a HUGE […]

Wordpress vs. clunky CMS

Here’s a interesting read from ZDNet on using Wordpress versus a standard “clunky” CMS. He’s got some good points and really nails-down the “IT geek”.
Story:

In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I think it’s all the same and chances are techies don’t care anyway–he touches on blogs partially being a function of […]

LA Times Reports: CNN: Corrupt News Network

 
So it appears that other large news media companies are finally seeing through the crap that CNN puts out of their “so-called” news channel.
The Los Angeles Times publishes a story regarding CNN’s “self serving agenda … set for the Republican debates”.
Read it for yourself here.
A person is blind if they cannot see CNN’s political […]

The $160 Billion Domain Typo

Thought you might find this interesting … how Google got it’s name:
Stanford student Sean Anderson was the guy who gave Larry Page the name of his search engine and company:
Sean and Larry were in their office, trying to think up a good name — something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of […]

Sprint Caves In and Agrees To Unlock Phones

The AP reports that as part of a proposed settlement to a class-action suit Sprint Nextel has agreed to provide customers with the code necessary to unlock their phones, after they’ve finished the service and paid their bills. Sprint won’t have to pay financial damages under the terms of the settlement. Considering people have to […]

Compete.com Search Analytics Opens Officially to the Public

I’ve been using compete.com for several months now and really enjoy the site’s features for keeping tabs on my competition. I got an email from them this morning annoucing the official launch of their new Search Analytics which they say allows users to:

Identify new relevant keywords for possible bids
Learn competitor’s search strategies
Track performance of specific […]

Skype co-founder Agrees Skype was Overpriced

Na … ya think?
That’s eBay for ya, at the time. I mean hey, they were sitting pretty with a ton of money in the bank  - so who’da’thunk it that this “brand new technology” wouldn’t turn our to be as profitable as they initially thought.
Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has said that he agrees the […]