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Refugee - One who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.
While watching all the news channels I noticed they suddenly started to use the word “refugee” to characterize the people in New Orleans who DID NOT listen to the mandatory evacuation calls for hurricane Katrina. [...]

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Yes, Vonage is going public. After months of speculation, they have decided they need another USD $600 million. I just don’t think in today’s environment they have a stable business model. The FCC is looking at taxing VoIP services and basically kill the pricing advantage that they currently have over Telcos. Only time will tell, [...]

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Former baseball pitching star Dwight Gooden turned himself in after nearly four days as a wanted man. Police had issued a warrant for the 40-year-old former Yankee on charges of DUI, fleeing and eluding police and resisting arrest without violence. According to reports, a Tampa police officer stopped Gooden about 2:40 a.m. Monday on [...]

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Round 1 was Betamax vs VHS back in the early 80’s. You would think these guys would learn, there are a ton of business cases talking about the early Betamax debacle, but to no avail. Anyways, the two sides decided to stop talking since they can’t seem to agree on a common format. The HD-DVD [...]

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As expected the newest offering from Google is a windoze only application (Mac and Linux users can connect to Google Talk using other IM clients). However, the talk functionality only works on the windoze platform, the other platforms will have to settle for plain old IM. Google Talk enables you to call or send [...]

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On Tuesday Aug 9, Cisco announced it latest earnings for Q4 and Fiscal Year 05 (FY05). It was Cisco’s 62nd conference call. Although, Cisco rarely comments on rumors, John Chambers did address the Nokia merger rumors as false. The merger would go against what Cisco internally has always said, never buy a company of [...]

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One of the reasons I put this blog together was to facilitate the sharing of pictures. I was sick of getting e-mails from people saying “hey, can you send me those pics from the weekend.” And, I wasn’t a big fan of ofoto, snapfish, etc…because although you can share pictures, you can only view [...]

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