Apple Forecasts: Not Just Hype
From BusinessWeek: Unusually aggressive guidance didn’t stop analysts from making even more optimistic predictions for the iPhone maker in 2008 read more | digg story
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Technology
Verizon Embraces Google’s Android
It is premature to remove Verizon from the list of anti-tech companies, but this is certainly a step in the right direction. In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google’s (GOOG) new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices. Verizon Wireless had been
Politics
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America
Excellent article @ PCWorld written by Mark Sullivan on the 5 most anti-tech organizations in America. History is replete with examples of products, companies, and industries that fail to adapt and adopt to new technology. These 5 will be next. From PCWorld by Mark Sullivan Their names keep coming up
Super Trains: Plans to Fix U.S. Rail Could End Road & Sky Gridlock
With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and maglev lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads read more | digg story
Culture
34 Scripts and Ideas for Getting Back at Telemarketers
The Federal Trade Commission has just slapped Do Not Call Registry offenders with $7.7 million worth of penalties. With a figure like that, it’s clear that telemarketers are finding that boundaries are a problem. But that doesn’t mean you have to take their abuse — fight back using
Apple
Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10?
Apple’s new operating system and its massive new feature set challenge users anddevelopers to explore new and better ways of working. I don’t think Leopard is a perfect 10, but the author, Tom Yager, opines that Leopard’s many new features and underlying capabilities allow Leopard to “stay
Humor
Ship crashes in Antarctica, check out the name and the irony…
I cant possibly spoil this by telling you any more…… read more | digg story
Humor
10 Reasons We Are Doomed… SkyMall Edition
“Gadgets and gimmicks, featured in the Holiday 2007 SkyMall catalog, prove without a doubt that the human race is going straight to Hell” read more | digg story
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock
Four members of an underground “cultural guerrilla” movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France’s cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco. read more | digg story
Gadgets
Home Theater Modeled After Enterprise Bridge
Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool. The system also features “one of the largest Kaleidescape hard-drive based storage systems” ever created, amassing
Media Technology
Intel to Unveil Chips for Improving Video Quality on the Web
From the NYT: Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips on Monday that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet. As consumers clamor for more Internet video, a huge computing burden is placed on companies like Google, Microsoft and providers of digital
Business Excellence
Why You Need to be Organised to be Creative
Mark McGuinness over at the Business of Design Online blog has written a series of articles (see links bel0w), on getting organized and improving creativity. Often many of us pitch creativity versus organization and structure erroneously. I believe organization and structure create (pun intended) an environment where creativity can flourish.