Apple
Over on YouTube, the Steve Jobs Keynote from MacWorld 2007 has been posted. It is divided into 9 parts. I am including all 9 links here for your viewing pleasure. The official keynote is on the Apple website. Apple has also posted the iPhone portion of the keynote here: Part
Politics
According to the folks over at Snopes.com, this urban legend appears to be true. They have a great explanation of the refund amounts as well as the reason almost everyone qualifies for this one time credit. Make sure you take advantage of this and pass this along to everyone
Finance
From yourcreditadvisor.com: If you’re anything like me, you graduated from college and perhaps even took a finance class or accounting class here or there, but you didn’t learn anything about managing your personal finances. In fact, there probably wasn’t even an opportunity to take any such
Finance
Over at yourcreditadvisor.com they have published a list of the top 25 personal finance myths. Find out which ones you secretly subscribe to. Someone once said that if you were to make a list of your 10 closest friends and acquaintances and order your earnings and theirs from smallest
Apple
One word, AWESOME! Everyone I have talked to that has seen the Jobs keynote, or seen a demo, or read about the iPhone has been wowed! When you think about what the iPhone does, it now seems like, duh? Why hasn’t anyone else ever done this. I bet the
Innovation
A protective coating of nanomaterial repels water, oil and bacteria. read more | digg story
Gadgets
As the hype builds for CES, the New York Times divides the competitors for your living room into three categories. The Incumbents like HBO already have a stake in America’s TV market. Latching on to them are the Extenders, who provide the actual devices to link up with your
Media Technology
Over at ITVT, there is a two-part interview with representatives from Siemens and Microsoft debating their varying approaches to IPTV technologies and the market. Of course, I am biased as my team and I make many of the decisions about the Siemens approach to the market as well as many
Media Technology
University of Auckland medical imaging researcher, Peter Gutmann has written an excellent article on the impacts of Windows Vista DRM on the end user, YOU. A great read. Original article can be found at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt This has ignited a debate
Microsoft
DETROIT (MarketWatch) — Ford Motor Co. (F) will unveil next month a hands-free Bluetooth wireless system and in-vehicle operating system developed by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) as an option for its entire Ford brand lineup. I say it is just one more reason not to buy a Ford. read more | digg story
Personal
Rick Reilly: Strongest Dad In the World From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly [SI Premium Subscription required] [Article text for the rest of us] http://cjcphoto.com/can/ I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to
Apple
It was clear as early as June 2005 what the biggest news for Apple would be in 2006 —that was the month when Steve Jobs announced Apple was jettisoning the PowerPC chip for new processors supplied by Apple. And while the Intel transition obviously dominated Apple’s maneuverings this year,
