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A few minutes ago, Barack Obama began announcing that Chrysler enters Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but with the support of the agreeable lenders and shareholders, with JP Morgan, Fiat [FIATY], Daimler (Mercedes-Benz) [DAI], the Canadian government, Chrysler management, and the unions onboard with the announcement. This is certainly interesting: there is a hoped-for accelerated reorganization that, [...]
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After days of intense haranguing, negotiations, tirades, tentative agreements, and lots of other drama, it seems that there are a few key money lenders in Chrysler that are refusing to deal with the federal government, the unions, Fiat, other shareholders, and other interested parties. Thus, it appears that, without that last minute change-of-heart, Chrysler will [...]
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If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking, “Gee… Where was I when this happened?!?” Just like last year, WWDC 2009 is sold out. So you’re probably resigned to having to catch the various conference highlights and video footage released after-the-fact while your buddies are gearing up to trek out to the conference for several days’ [...]
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I noticed today, when I was updating several of the apps for my iPod touch, that the iTunes licensing terms had changed. While most of the verbiage is essentially comparable to what was presented on the previous TOS, the big change involves the statement that the paid HD content from the iTunes Store is only [...]
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I’ve discussed the “smaller” end of the computing spectrum for quite some time, while spending considerably less time and effort devoted to the “upper” end of workstation computing. From what I’ve been told, most people I’ve interviewed (including several of you, gentle readers) are increasingly interested in mobile computing and the class of lightweight (or [...]
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Here’s a curious statement made to me at a local Starbucks yesterday: “I got hit hard by the stock market over the past two years, but I’m getting some money back from the IRS.” Wow. So was any of this money from that consumer stimulus package? Apparently not; it was from the taxpayer having overpaid [...]
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A lot of you, gentle readers, have probably heard of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system, a Linux variant. Like many of you, I’m usually eagerly awaiting the semi-annual OS refreshes, particularly the Server Edition updates. For this April, Canonical has tossed us a curve ball, in the form of the new Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix. While [...]
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A Little Bit: According to a CNN article, Oracle [ORCL] has announced that it is entering into an agreement to buy Sun Microsystems [JAVA], which changes the Java dynamics in the IT arena and the business world. N.B. Official Oracle Press Release (4/20/2009)
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These days, a lot of people are raving (and sometimes even ranting) about Twitter. But several years ago, after E-mail was “acknowledged” as the Web’s super-app, AOL’s [TWX] instant messenger service was the new front-runner for super-app status. Sure, there was that massive dilution/fragmentation of IM users between AIM and all of the the rest. But [...]
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