Posts Tagged ‘Business’

The NY Times is reporting that General Motors will show one of its concept cars in Vegas this week. The objective? Move cars without drivers. I can imagine them being peppered with censors, GPS and software of some sort that would take care of 'less complex' routes. ...

Welcome to itola.com. I seem to have picked up a number of regular readers over the last few months and I must apologize for holding out on the daily updates recently. I'm going to get this site hot and ready to roll again now that the near year ...

Wel, sort of. The SCO group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be delisted from Nasdaq and trading suspended as of this morning. The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination ...

Jessica Simpson Movie - "Blonde Ambition" Flops I don't write about issues related to film and entertainment that much, but this story is too funny to pass up. To be honest, I know very little about Jessica Simpson other than she looks great in a Bikini. Her hot bod wasn't ...

The associated press is reporting that a generous coffee buyer purchased a coffee for the person standing next in line and it set off a train of generosity by the Starbucks customers that followed. Coffee Drinkers' 1,013 Good Deeds MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — One woman's kindness to a fellow Starbucks patron resulted ...

The NY Times Bits blog has an interesting story about Google's recent trouble with the law.  It sounds like Google might be in trouble and it's kind of sad because they've had such a great reputation over the years due to adhering to their "do no evil" philosophy. Life changes when ...

This is a great video that you can use to humiliate all of your friends at Microsoft. It's also great to throw in Microsoft fan boy faces, if there are any that remain, that is!Steve Ballmer - Microsoft CEO - Just be glad he's not your boss! [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc[/youtube] If ...

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder or Ferrari 430 Spider   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utT1eq-A6Io[/youtube]

It looks like Nintendo still can't get that supply and demand thing down. Luckily for them, their Wii console continues to be such a great hit and is nearly impossible to acquire for the second Christmas in a row! Nintendo spokesman says: "We have been running the campaign all year ...

 WoW, as in World of Warcraft I've seen a number of World of Warcraft commercials over the last year. It's not surprising that a game has that much pull on commerce, but I can't believe that this advertisement went viral. I have an idiot friend in NY that refused ...

Mark Zuckerberg wants his supporters and users of the Facebook platform to know that he is very sorry for the mistakes they've made in implementing their Beacon technology. About a month ago, we released a new feature called Beacon to try to help people share information with their friends about things ...

Yes, I know, this is pretty pathetic, isn't it? The American Dollar is now worth marginally more than the Canadian funny money.  I'm not sure who to feel sorry for. Americans, for being in this embarrassing economic situation; or Canadians for having funny money that is a disgrace to currency worldwide!

Have we learned anything from the past? Have we created another bubble? 1999 didn't end well for everyone, are we headed in the wrong direction and are you prepared to bet the ranch on the next "sure thing"? The Googles and Facebooks of the world are here to stay, they ...

Well it finally happened, NBC and Apple finally broke up. NBC's contract with Apple has expired and all NBC-owned shows are no longer available for purchase on the iTunes store. Fans might be saddened to learn that shows from other channels such as the USA Network and the Sci-Fi ...

Apple and AT&T on Monday, were sued for violating patents held by Klausner Technologies. The lawsuit alleges that both companies were infringing on patented technology by offering Visual Voicemail service to iPhone customers. According to Apple Insider, Klausner is seeking damages and future royalties estimated at $360 million. ...

First, this drama-queen says the "network you can trust is a fraud", AT&T can't be trusted, woe-is-me! Now, the self-proclaimed iPhone experts are claiming that AT&T screwed Apple sales over the holidays with a recent announcement. Who the heck can you trust, is this the case of a ...