Article Archive for 18 May 2007

How to Get Your Business Online: Step 1, Buy a Mac
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Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing on 18 May 2007
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Whether you choose a $599 Mini or an 8-core desktop Mac with a 30″ screen, you will get off on the right footing with the only computer that can run at least 2 OSes including OSX & Vista and comes bundled with a useful amount of software – and not bloatware or trialware – not […]

Microsoft buys AQuantive for $6 Billion
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Posted in Advertising, Computing, Internet, Marketing, Media on 18 May 2007
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Wow!  First Microsoft spurns a deal to buy YouTube which Google snapped up for $1.65 Billion because it was too pricey.  Now Microsoft agrees to pay double what a firm is worth to pull it into its stable. An act of desperation?  Sure seems like it. Obviously, when Google guys DoubleClick (a direct competitor of […]

Are We Not Men? We Are Not Devo. We Are Alice & Jaberwacky: Machine Talk
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Posted in Computing, Internet, Universe on 18 May 2007
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“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via Teletype with a computer and another human; if the person can’t determine which is the computer, then it meets Turing’s standards for “thinking.” In recent years Turing’s game has taken on […]