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In business MONEY is both oil and glue at different times, says Steve
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2009-11-27
My First Skype Call from a Plane
Using the Skype iPhone App I called a colleague of mine. Highly latent connection, and difficult to hear with the “white noise” of the airplane. But it DID work….a new first….also, I now have my Mac and iPhone connected to the FREE eBay sponsored Wi-Fi on Delta Airlines. Way AWESOME!!
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FREE Wi-Fi on Delta this holiday season
Sponsored by eBay. THANKS eBay it is AWESOME. I am posting this from 30,000 feet now. From my iPhone over eBay sponsored Wi-Fi.
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2009-10-02
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2009-09-30
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty
Speaking at the MN Venture & Finance Conference.
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2009-09-29
Need to hire Pianist with portable piano
For party…from 6pm-9pm…Sunday October 4th in Bloomington MN…pls email ro@roaldmarth.com
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2009-09-28
Sheraton Palo Alto SUCKS!
Why? Because they woke me with a free newspaper delivery of USA Today yet charged me $10 per day for so called high speed Internet that has been slow as an old modem. This is Silicon Valley. Right next to Stanford.
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2009-09-23
Smartphone apps to spike, newspapers to miss it (again)
Smartphone apps to spike, newspapers to miss it (again)
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:40PM by Tom Johansmeyer
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Research in Motion (RIMM), Smartphones, Technology
By 2013, more than $4 billion will be spent on smartphone applications, according to a new study by the Yankee Group … and the estimate is said to be conservative. With the average owner of one of these devices downloading around 20 applications a year, it’s obvious that this market is getting ready to pop. Currently, only $343 million is spent in this space.An increase in the number of smartphone applications available — for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, Reasearch in Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry, and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android — and rising prices for these applications will push the total size of this market higher.
Among the companies watching this market develop is the newspaper industry. Of a group of publishers surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, half of publishers see smartphones as becoming crucial to content distribution over the next three years. Only 42% have this view of e-book readers, such as Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle. Of course, 42% isn’t far below 50%, which means there is little difference between the perceptions of the two channels.
More alarming, though, is that at least half don’t see the potential of these distribution channels. So, as the print world lost the share of the internet that it could have had, it’s getting ready to commit to at least as substantial a loss of the mobile market.
Mobile Mobile Mobile…Ro
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2009-09-22
Thomas Friedman: Be brave U.S. -- tax gasoline more
Thomas Friedman: Be brave U.S. — tax gasoline more
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 6:00PM by Joseph Lazzaro
New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Columnist Thomas Friedman returned to the subject of the United States’ inordinate use of oil, and the problems it creates. Friedman asks: are we really that tough a people? If we were, we’d tax gasoline much more, build many more nuclear power plants (like France), and store waste deep in Yucca Mountain, which is totally safe — all with the goal of propelling, basically, a paradigm shift in the nation’s energy policy — one that would feature dramatically less oil consumption.
Doing the above will also seize the high ground internationally, in Friedman’s interpretation: currently, with oil dominant, Russia and Venezuela and other nations in the Middle East have the high ground. Friedman said if he had the money from an additional $1 per gallon tax on gasoline (about $140 billion in revenue per year), he’d use 45% of it to pay down the budget deficit, 45% to pay for new health care, and 10% to cushion the burden the tax would put place on the poor and those who need to drive long distances.In the process, the deficit would drop substantially, the renewable energy industry would be stimulated, the dollar would strength, the environment would be cleaner, and U.S. corporations would be stronger international competitors, as a result of decreased health care costs, among other benefits, Friedman said.
Energy Analysis: Friedman succinctly described the benefits of a mandated shift away from oil and gasoline use. One critique: Yucca Mountain is safe, but a nuclear fuel reprocessing center like France’s COGEMA La Hague site represents a better option. In any event, don’t look for a gasoline tax increase anytime soon: it’s a non-starter in the U.S. Congress.
South Korea has the fasted Broadband in the World, graduates math students at #2 in the world, and produces nearly 50% of it’s electricity for it’s 50 million people from Nuclear….we compete Globally !!!
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