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Aww… Isn’t that cute.  Two major players in the technology industry are making nice and are all kissy-kissy.  I was really hoping Cisco would bury Apple under an iPhone lawsuit just to put Apple in their proper place regarding trademarks but my wish will not be granted according to MacNN:
Cisco and Apple today announced that […]

usrbingeek told you about the attempted merger between Sirius and XM. What he didn’t tell you is that there is a FCC provision that specifically prohibits the two satellite radio companies from merging. It would create a monopoly the likes of which we haven’t seen since the early 20th century.
For those of you […]

Lisa Nowak, a 43 year-old Navy Captain and NASA Astronaut, who last flew a shuttle mission on STS-121 (the second return to flight mission) has been charged with attempted kidnapping. Lisa Nowak drove from Houston, Texas to Orlando’s International Airport in Florida (wearing a diaper according to The Register and the BBC so […]

Military.com has released a report today about MySpace.
Airmen Cautioned About MySpace.com (Military.com):
Stars and Stripes reports that the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is warning airmen to exercise caution when using the popular Internet social networking site MySpace.com. The warning comes after an investigation involving several airmen who were solicited “specific information” via MySpace.com […]

According to this AP article Boeing is dropping its wireless services from the design of the 787.  While this upsets me quite a bit there is a valid reason.
Reason #1:

Among the difficulties were attempts to get regulatory approval for wireless frequencies in about 100 different countries, and concerns about the amount of bandwidth available to […]

Sometimes I really wonder what is going on in Chapel Hill, NC.
U. of N.C. Goofs, Tells 2,700 They’re In (AP):
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — An admissions department e-mail sent from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill congratulated 2,700 prospective freshmen this week on their acceptance to the school.The problem is that none of […]

I love seeing record companies squirm due to technology. The last advance in technology the music industry championed was the Compact Disc back in 1982. Time for the geeks to break the molds. First it was Napster, then it was the massive college networks of “free” music, next it was iTunes would […]

According to CarstenCumbrowski of Search Engine Journal the massive Wikipedia site is now utilizing the NOFOLLOW link attribute to reduce the credit spammers are given by having links from Wikipedia to their sites.  Every link on every page is now a NOFOLLOW link.  This won’t eliminate spam at Wikipedia but what the NOFOLLOW link attribute […]

Good news for the Unifour area of North Carolina (where I lived three years of my early adult life), Google is building a 210 job, $600 million dollar datacenter to help bolster its online offerings.
Google Taps North Carolina for New Datacenter Site (E-Commerce Times):
Google plans to build a new, US$600 million datacenter in North Carolina […]