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SmartPhones

The British newsweekly the Economist has a special report entitled, “Nomads at last.” I very strongly recommend you read the whole article, but in a sentence, it says that mobile computing is already making radical changes in life- and workstyle

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CPU 1901

From here: The United States Football League was a short-lived professional American football league that played three seasons between 1983 and 1985. . . . . . . [T]he USFL filed an antitrust lawsuit against the older league, claiming it

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Computers 1963

As you probably already know, AMD’s revenues for the first quarter will drop by 15% rather than the seasonal 5-10% drop, and they’re going to lay off 10% of their staff. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out

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Computers 1553

New York City wants to become more environmentally friendly, and they’ve come up with a logo to symbolize the campaign: They applied for a trademark, and the people who make iPods didn’t like that. Didn’t like that at all. In

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The AMD Bomb

First, we have this Inquirer article, which speculates that AMD will semi-spin off its fabs to improve its balance sheet and make it possible to fund the next generation of fabs. This is quite believable. Whether it will happen or