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I made a big decision today to stop visiting the CNET News homepage. For 10 years CNET News has been one of my favorite places to get tech news, until this year. Lately more and more of the stories have been making me feel uncomfortable. I could tell that CNET News wasn’t interested in reporting [...]

CNET News used to kind of fun nerdy tech news site. Now they are the lowest common denominator tech gossip site. One of the ways they express this is by amplifying any Apple controversy they can, real or imagined. I first saw this story a couple of days ago. I ignored it because it came from [...]

Great, those of us that already knew about Foursquare have been there and done that. Foursquare is over. At first you think it’s neat, you get to be the mayor of a couple of places. You compete for high score. Next thing you know, you can think of absolutely no reason to check in anywhere. So [...]

Don’t get in on this deal. I’m almost certain that the reason this is happening now is because of Apple’s recent introduction of Facetime video calling. Skype realized that the big boys are getting involved and they better get their money now or never. Think about it, Apple has the devices and the ability to create [...]

Well Google and Verizon have released a statement. Read it for yourself and see what you think. I think something is fishy. The whole idea of private companies running off in secret to write public policy is bad. It’s odd that they take away the transparency requirements for wireless broadband. A joint policy proposal for an open [...]

This article talks about how Google and Verizon may not be trying to break network neutrality, but work around it by having Google pay to place servers near or in Verizon’s data centers. Well if this is just something Bob Cringley made up and they’re not talking about this, they should. It seems like a great [...]