FCC Chair Kevin Martin says that even if Comcast is appealing its net neutrality Order, the agency still wants to know what the heck “protocol-agnostic” means.

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This summer more people were shot in Chicago than in Iraq. So… why isn’t anyone calling for a withdrawal from Illinois? CBS used Google maps to track the stats.

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Well I saw my first new Microsoft ad last night. It was confusing. Are they selling an operating system or shoes? It begins with walk that turns into the pedestrian Seinfeld fitting shoes to Bill Gates. I am not sure how they are going to use the last few seconds of the ad to sell Vista, or are they skipping over Vista and heading straight to windows 7? We will just have to keep watching.

Comcast tells FCC to pound salt. Sony VAIO 440,000 machine recall. Yikes. New Tivo to have a terabyte. Yay. Hard disks down to $189 for a terabyte. Michael on Facebook. Better than a blog? Or no? The little Dell laptop is out for $349. Huge patch Tuesday coming next week. CNBC doing a deal with LinkedIn and we can now expect content on LinkedIn. Chrome has weird security issue. Beware.

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Googlers try to sneak in onerous EULA. BUSTED! The company should be ashamed of itself. Web controlled door locks announced. Dumb idea. Xbox 360 to be reduced to $199. Corning warns of LCD glut. Sony raising the refresh rate of its LCD-TV. Why is the phrase “Upping the ante..” showing up a lot?

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I installed Google’s chrome as soon as I could get to the site. I was hoping to see a bright new fully working browser that was remade in our own image. Instead I found a new look that behaved mostly like Firefox and had issues that made me think IE 6.  When I tested Chrome with hulu.com for flash compatibility and playback I was stunned to find that there was no sound. Now there are some features I kinda of like, the new tab window with the panes showing your most viewed is unique. I’m not sure that new features are going to help if Google can’t get the basic features working ASAP.

Googlers gah-gah over the Google Chrome browser. Will Microsoft be affected? I think not. Chrome is more of a competitor to Safari than anything else. I think it leads to the Google OS. Dell bringing out a ultralite notebook. WiMAX rolling in Baltimore. 802.11n still in draft mode? Why? GUN now 25 years old. Picassa to add face recognition. New iPods on Sept. 9? Looks like it.

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Google Chrome, the new browser from Google will be launching as a beta version September 2nd in more than 100 countries. Check out the link for a comic book describing Chrome.


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Veoh wins court suit regarding video uploads. Good news for Google in Viacom suit. Jobs given false obit. He’s still alive. Apple applying for touch screen Mac patent. Microsoft gets patent for the PageUp PageDown butons. nVidia SLI now runs on Intel motherboards. Dell slipping again. Virtual worlds being hacked. Quebec sued for not considering Open Source. Sony-Ericsson may be over.

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Orange throttling iPhone 3G speeds. Why offer 3G if you do not want to deliver the product? D90 comes out but not seemingly as good as the Canon. My thoughts on Nikon versus Canon. Computer virus found on Space Station computer. IE8 getting more and more useless PR. Sneaky deal done between Microsoft and Immersion. Lawsuits abound. Dell explaining the Cloud Computing trademark debate. Cisco needs to buy more companies says THE STREET.

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