Chris Lau

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Three scenarios for BlackBerry

It should be considered ill-timed that BlackBerry Inc. announced it is seeking to privatize the company. The company is in the midst of launching...

Free Palm Pre – Who Cares. Wait for Eos

Palm Pre isn’t even out yet and there’s talk of a SuccessorPalm announced in its blog. This is for anyone under its “Real Reviewers”...

Linux: How much does it not suck?

This is in response to Vijay’s post about Linux - which clearlycreated much traffic (views) and controversy (worst voted and highestvoted on blogidol). Linux...

Twitter Quitters

At the beginning of the contest, Twitter was hot. Now it is not.Twitter Loyalty. Non-existent.That’s the problem with mini-bubbles: a few months of exponential...

Is Twitter Swine?

Twitter had a “breakout” earlier this year in volume growth,traffic, and account growth. This was both impressive and viral in theinternet growth sense. It...

Sun Microsystems and Oracle Deal a Dud of a Deal

Sun Microsystems is a DudOracle has been a favorite for many years. It has made goodacquisitions over the past ten years. It has acquired...

Google Map of Swine Flu

Google map is a very powerful tool. News of the swine flu outbreakbroke this past weekend. Here is a link illustrating the location ofpeople...

Windows 7 Leak Confirmed (VS) that Penguin

Windows 7. It’s ready, but it’s under constructionUbuntu 9.04. I’d install Ubuntu just to get this desktop background.Further to my entry about Windows 7,...

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