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What’s the deal with search?

I recently found out at TechCrunch the at the third place leader in online search has officially called it quits and is exiting the search market.  According to the Alexia at TC, "Search is an almost impossible business to get into, with Google controlling around 66% of the market and Microsoft controlling another 27.9%". Impossible? First and foremost, I really don't think any market is …

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Do you really need to care about tablets?

Do you remember what kind of computer you had about 10 years ago? As young as I am, I've been the same nerdy (and lovable) person for some time now.  I learned how to build computers back in high school and I've been keeping track of tech since then.  I didn't have the sophisticated RSS reader with all the major tech blogs pumping me info 24/7 that I do now ... but there were enough magazines …

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What Verizon Did for the Android Operating System

There is a huge problem in the high-tech industry ... marketing. Yeah ... marketing. Think of it this way: A lot of the products and services that are billed as "high-tech" are created by "tech" people.  These are nerdy individuals (like myself) that actually appreciate the fact their processor can address a 64-bit memory address instead of the old 32-bit.  But ... we must convey this …

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Why you MUST join the MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Competition!

  I am on the organizing committee for the MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Competition (EPC) and I am here to preach to you the greatness that is the MIT 100K EPC. You can register at http://register.mit100k.org/ For those who don't know, the MIT 100K Defines the Elevator Pitch Competition as: The Elevator Pitch Contest is the first of three contests hosted by the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship …

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The Need for Beauty in Technology

I admire Apple. As much as I badmouth some of their decisions to remain exclusionary and the blind exuberance of Apple fanboys, I really do admire them as a company (besides the fact that they are single handily carrying my stock portfolio right now). I don't admire Apple as a tech company.  They're hardware rarely has bleeding edge specs,  I actually do not consider them early adopters for …

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