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Sat Nov 7
Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue -- LA Times.com

Incredible! We’re talking newborns here!

Are you being scammed by Facebook ads? — Adventures in IT - InfoWorld
Deceptive advertising is stealing money from unsuspecting folks on social networks while the networks reap the rewards. Don’t let sleazy ads on Facebook or MySpace rob you blind.

The most egregious scammers are many “legitimate” companies that run deceptive ads on these networks.

Google Dashboard: Transparent, maybe. Private? Not so much — InfoWorld
Google is putting all your account info on a single page, hoping to calm fears about its intentions. But Cringely isn’t convinced.

Neither is MacSmiley.

Wed Nov 4
“ Everything they say about Apple making products… is true. Apple — it’s about changing the world. For everyone else, it’s about the money. Ken Segall
Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different | Cult of Mac This article was quite a surprise for me. So much of Apple is thought to be “Steve’s ideas”, I was surprised to see a man at an ad agency came up with the “i” in iMac. After that, my favorite part of the article is at the end: Segall was still consulting for Apple until a couple of years ago when he started working for Dell. “Dell and Apple: It’s night and day,” Segall says. “It’s a transactional world Dell lives in. It’s all about numbers. Everything they say about Apple making products for themselves is true. Apple — it’s about changing the world. For everyone else, it’s about the money.”
Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different | Cult of Mac

This article was quite a surprise for me. So much of Apple is thought to be “Steve’s ideas”, I was surprised to see a man at an ad agency came up with the “i” in iMac.

After that, my favorite part of the article is at the end:

Segall was still consulting for Apple until a couple of years ago when he started working for Dell.

“Dell and Apple: It’s night and day,” Segall says. “It’s a transactional world Dell lives in. It’s all about numbers. Everything they say about Apple making products for themselves is true. Apple — it’s about changing the world. For everyone else, it’s about the money.”

Tue Nov 3
Seinfeld + Mac are back! MacDailyNews - Seinfeld takes Microsoft’s $10 million for Windows ads, then goes right back to Apple Mac

Seinfeld + Mac are back! MacDailyNews - Seinfeld takes Microsoft’s $10 million for Windows ads, then goes right back to Apple Mac

“ At first, I was impressed with [Windows 7’s] interface changes and got caught up in the beauty of the Aero themes and sleek look. But after a few weeks of use, reality began to set in. After a Registry issue prevented me from installing an app, I realized Windows 7 is still Windows. Prettier, a little snappier than Vista, perhaps more stable. But at some point, you still face many of the underlying issues that have made Windows a pain to use in the past. Smackdown: Windows 7 takes on Apple’s Snow Leopard
80 percent of viruses love Windows 7 — IT PRO

Great time to get a Mac!

Sat Oct 24

“Don’t Cry For Me, Cupertino” — David Pogue (via wroush1967) a golden oldie about Steve Jobs performed at the Boston Book Festival

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shills Windows 7 on U.S. national TV in front of Apple Mac (with video) — MacDailyNews
Fri Oct 23

Win7 Broken Promises demo’d on Japanese morning tv. Warning: They cut to prerecorded video while rebooting. (via opql1)

Notes from Microsoft's first retail store: 'Cheap, disorganized, and poorly-located' — MacDailyNews

MSFT’s less than a shameless but poor copy of Apple Retail Stores. It’s the same paradigm MSFT uses for it’s OS.

Full Circle In Sight As Inventor Of The World Wide Web Joins Twitter

Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins the Twitterverse. It was only a matter of time!

Thu Oct 22
Like Windows 7, Vista got good reviews too — Reuters

Reality check and reviewer’s remorse.

Apple Joins The Mouse Masses - Forbes.com

This is an INACCURATE article, to put it kindly. What’s interesting are the comments taking the author to task for his faulty fact-checking.