It’s all about the business model. Google has become so powerful because it, rather than any of the previous dot com wunderkind, discovered how to monetize the Internet. It’s obvious in retrospect. Monetization is done by adverts, but it was Google that got the advertizing technology more right than anyone else. The point was [...]

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Apple’s fourth quarter results (revenues of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million) drove the share price up by over 6%. The revenue growth was 28.5% and profits grew by over 66%. The upshot is that Apple is now worth more than IBM (160bn v 154bn approx) and hence is the most valuable [...]

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One of the casualties of Global Warming will be the sale of bottled water. Here’s the skinny:

America drank 37 billion bottles of water in 2005. Europe is probably as bad, but I don’t have figures.
In America tap water is not only safe, but more thoroughly regulated than bottled water.
It takes more than 47 million gallons [...]

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I have a friend who’s in her fifties that had her laptop stolen. The insurance was sufficient to buy her a new laptop, and naturally, it had Vista loaded. She had lots of problems with it, the most serious of which was that she couldn’t get email running. Well, she’s no techie, but [...]

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I’ve decide to add another campaign to my list of campaigns. The aim is to simply surface the truth about Global Warming. It has some relevance to IT because IT is a major consumer of power, the consequence of which is more green house gases in the atmosphere. But I’m going to go wider than [...]

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