Wired has a good read on the results of a Court Decision that declares that Laptops entering the country are subject to search with out cause.
But what Wired doesn't talk about is the implications to Corporate America.  If you have an employee leave the US carrying company secrets, even e-mails that might put your corporation [...]

Filed under : Privacy

The Fearless Leaders:
Steve Jobs knows brandwidth. Apple is not competing with PC’s anymore. A PC is a tool, a Mac is a status symbol, and brandwidth is what got Apple to that designer label status. Steve Jobs was recently interviewed by Rolling Stone. He is talking to Disney about a job they offered him. He [...]

Filed under : Industry News

In the days before Google your brand was measured by your .Com. Today your page rank at Google says a lot, but if someone will buy your T-shirt you know you have hit the big time. CitiBank gives its T-shirts away on college campuses, Electronic Arts sells their Shirts for $30 a piece.
The Big Guys:
Steve [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

With more than $300 million in sales in its first week on the market, "Halo 3 is truly a cultural phenomenon," says Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Full Story

Filed under : Industry News

If you like me were under-whelmed with the new iPod's maybe the new Flash based Zunes will be more to your liking.  Tomorrow there will be a Redmond event to announce the new players which should be available in stores before the holiday sales start.
Both Bill Gates and J Allard are expected to speak. 
Microsoft [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Bill Gates and other Microsoft bigwigs will be on hand October 16 in San Franciso to introduct the world to the vendor's VoIP push. Full Story

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Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive game “Halo 3” has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the United States alone in the first 24 hours. The Xbox 360 title beat previous records set by blockbuster theatrical releases like “Spider-man 3” and novels such [...]

Filed under : Gaming, Industry News

I've seen the Tiger Beat-style 1985 photo of Bill Gates before, but not this dreamy photo of Steve Jobs…. Full Story

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Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., joins Microsoft's Bill Gates, Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto and Intel's Paul Otellini as confirmed keynoters as confirmed keynoters for the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show., slated for Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. Full Story

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Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., joins Microsoft's Bill Gates, Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto and Intel's Paul Otellini as confirmed keynoters as confirmed keynoters for the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show., slated for Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. Full Story

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Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., joins Microsoft's Bill Gates, Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto and Intel's Paul Otellini as confirmed keynoters as confirmed keynoters for the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show., slated for Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas. Full Story

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Asperger's Syndrome has a lot of names, but the symptoms are the same, bright and intelligent children with social anxiety bordering on anti-social behavior that amaze and astound in so many math, spatial relations, or music fields but have trouble playing with other kids, focusing on things that are not their strong suit, and often [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks

David Pescovitz: Jody Radzik of the always-illuminating Guruphiliac blog says, "Here's an excellent explanation, deconstruction and debunking of that claptrap "The Secret." From "The Wrath of the Secretrons" by Connie L. Schmidt:
f you’re at all familiar with The Secret, you know that the big secret revealed therein is a centuries-old principle called the law of [...]

Filed under : Industry News

David Pescovitz:
Jody Radzik of the always-illuminating Guruphiliac blog says, "Here's an excellent explanation, deconstruction and debunking of that claptrap "The Secret." From "The Wrath of the Secretrons" by Connie L. Schmidt:
f you’re at all familiar with The Secret, you know that the big secret revealed therein is a centuries-old principle called the law of attraction, [...]

Filed under : Industry News

This is an open letter from Jack Thompson to Bill Gates.  All I can say is Jack Thompson is the worst sort of person, pushing his agenda using a tragedy.
After no games violent or otherwise were found in Cho Seung Hui's possession, the Washington Post edited the story to remove references to video Games.
Counter Strike is [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Fire up your Tivo, Media Center, DirectvDVR, Replay, or heaven forbid VCR, because you are going to want to keep this for eternity.  All the Funny skits Bill has done over the years for Launch events that we can't share, but Bill on Comedy Central should be gold. 
Story at Seatle Pi.

Filed under : Goofing Off

So I blogged a while back that this hot chick had linked to me. There aren't too many female bloggers and her feed looked interesting so I subscribed. Low and behold the next day she has a Gem of a blog on why companies need to be blogging.
I agree with Dina about some ot the thoughts she [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

This was probably the most popular article I ever wrote.   And no it is a bit dated with some of the references, but I think it still holds up very well philosophically so I am reposting it.
 
 
Building Brandwidth in an Internet Economy
In the days before Google your brand was measured by your .Com. Today your [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents