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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Talks Google Chrome OS, Bing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke about Google Chrome OS during the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, dismissing Google’s netbook -centric operating system as unable to fully accomplish users’ needs. At the same time, Ballmer held up Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, as an example of the companys tenacity as it continues to battle Google and other rivals for online-application market share.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed Google’s new Chrome OS as
focusing too much on the netbook market, while praising his own companys
Bing search engine his July 14 keynote address
at Microsofts Worldwide Partner
Conference in New Orleans.

Ballmer suggested that the Google Chrome OS, a …


Rep. Steve Israel: Roll Back the Darkness in a Sustainable, Cost-Effective Way

One of the smartest foreign assistance initiatives the United States could undertake is to jump-start promising solar-powered efforts around the world.

Taylor Marsh: J. Stephen Simon, The Exceptional Oil Man

by Taylor Marsh J. Stephen Simon, Director, Senior VP of ExxonMobil (retired 2008) dies. That will be the official line. But he was simply the…

Steve Rosenbaum: Painting Times Square Red – ????

So, as you probably know I’ve been a big fan of the changes happening in the city. I think that the shift from cars to…

Steve Parker: What!?! Bob Lutz back at GM!

General Motors has come out of bankruptcy after a somewhat-biblical 40 days and nights of massive reorganization, as a new, smaller company more than 60%…

Steve Parker: This weekend’s automotive talk shows

Join us LIVE Saturday and Sunday at 5pm Pacific time on www.TalkRadioOne.com for our exclusive LIVE motoring and motorsports talk shows! Steve Parker’s The Car…

Project Natal

Some fanboy stuff for Friday – cutting edge video games, this does have some real world application too.
About 6 months ago I was wondering if anybody was ever going to come up with an answer to the Wii. Yes, it’s revolutionary, but it’s just a wireless controller, you’d think that in over a year somebody [...]

Finally Catching Up

Things have been crazy the past two weeks, the biggest spanner in the works being the flu that knocked me down completely back on Tuesday and I was still sleeping it off on Wednesday. Losing two days from the work week creates a total loss for blogging and podcasting and I’m just now catching up [...]

Retraining Wire and Feature Editors to Be Web Curators

If the wire editor and feature editor roles are becoming obsolete for print newspapers, as Steve Yelvington persuasively argues, then those editors should be retrained — or retrain themselves — as web curators. Rather than become obsolete, these editors could become essential to their news organization’s future on the web.
Steve observes:
On the Internet, we have [...]

False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report on CNN’s iReport Is a Failure of Open Systems

Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen journalism.
It’s not. It’s a failure of open systems.
As Sarah Perez points out at ReadWriteWeb, ANYONE can become [...]