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I had to get home early after our Thanksgiving party in Fremont so that I could get to bed early. By 10:00 PM, after watching a streaming video – “Bride Flight” – via Netflix, I dozed-off and dreamt about the gadgets…
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11-11-11
A once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, 11/11/2011 had been deemed by the Chinese as the luckiest day to get married. For them, it’s the best day to leave the single life behind. In the U.S., 11/11 is Veteran’s Day – a national holiday.…
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October 5, 2011 – Steve Jobs Goes Beyond
My early adulthood years hero is dead. Since I had my first Apple II back in 1980, I had looked-up to Steve as my idol. He was brash, handsome and had that unmistakable air of invincibility in him. I was working…
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Will The Clouds Go Down the Amazon?
You have to admire the spunk of Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon.com). Today, after the release of Amazon’s tablet, ‘Fire‘, he fired the opening salvo towards the heavily-fortified Apple castle with this quotable quote: ” There are two types of companies: those…
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The Great HP TouchPad Fire Sale
On the 3rd week of August 2011, HP announced the news that they were exiting from the very competitive mobile business. Apple and the Android-folks led by Google were making it too difficult for HP to breathe in the mobile arena. It had only been more than a year since HP acquired the PDA-smartphone-mobile…
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