It seems that a U.S. group has been granted the funds for a trip to the U.K. by several groups including a couple in the U.K., http://bit.ly/UGyjZ. This was brought to my attention by @THErealDVORAK on twitter a few moments ago. The Register comments on the funds being wasted on a holiday for the blogging group. I would take a different stance on that. The funds were spent in the U.K., on U.K. goods and services, not on U.S. goods and services.

The goal of the visit, a meeting with U.K. professionals about the web 2.0 and beyond will benefit the entire group and help business learn to use the web to grow their market.

Apple iPhone has flaw in SMS system. Fix is coming. MSFT Bing does crappy job with news. I am sure it is because of a lack of bots. The company pulls a sickening ad off the net. I have it posted on Dvorak.org. Sheep are shrinking due to climate change says scientist. Mozilla Firefox already has a bug. Motorola going into the femtocell business. The Register says Seagate needs to catch up with SSD business. New Symbian coming out. CIO magazine reports on Ritzy homes. ASCAP contends royalties are due for each ring rung. Huh?

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Bing can search Tweets. Go, why would you want to? Ballmer re-announced Bing at the D7 conference. Ha. The geneticists cannot predict mental illness. Satellite phonecos want to make hybrid phones. Will still be too pricey. iPhones are overheating. RIAA beats Usenet in court. More Steve Jobs back at work stories. HP doing a 12-core workstation. Firefox 3.5 very fast they say. We’ll see.

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Firefox 3.5 rolls out. Get it now. China is filtering out Garfield the Cat. Pirate Bay sale worries some. Dell going into the Android too? Where is the picture of Steve Jobs who is supposedly back at work. Confusion over Comcast 4G, WiMax. Forrester says tech biz bottoms in Q3. Palm Pre beating sales expectations says PR company. NYT sez few oldsters see themselves as old. Did someone pay money for this survey? Anti-Google stories surfacing. Yahoo shuts down another company I never heard of. Will this ever end? Maine making sure all kids get a computer. Flash headed to Android phone. Robot navigates like a person. Toshiba last man standing regarding the 1.8-inch HD. Look for a sale on Netbooks.

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I received my Dell mini 10v by FedEx on Friday and quickly began the changing. I installed Windows 7 and all the drivers I could from dell. I charged the battery up and updated the bios. It’s curious that there were two bios upgrades already.

I then watched an episode of Royal Pains on Hulu, to assess the video behavior and was not unpleased. The video was as good as my Toshiba, as long as I buffered a bit, and played full screen.

One thing I don’t like is that when it goes to sleep, the SD card doesn’t wakeup.

I am typing this on my Mini 10v and find the keyboard is a bit small but larger than the mini9. I like the function key utility that allows what would be a Fn+ stoke to just be the key. Making volume adjustments a one key affair.

I bought mine with the 16gb SSD and the six cell battery for all day life.

Stay tuned for upadates as I continue to explore the uses of a netbook.

Tear down says new iPhone costs $179 to build. MSFT Hohm in the news. Seems silly to me. Palm says Pre is selling well. Stock goes up. Windows 7 on sale. Red Hat profits are up. Linux now has an anti-virus product. Weird UK stories. Xmos $4.50 CPU? Also the plug computer is headed your way. Look for phase-change memory to flop along with the flying saucer car. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com, code word TECH. Check it out.

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Palm Pre hits one million app downloads. HTC Hero has new slick interface. You are too late to get MSFT security software. Company also wants everyone to switch off of Windows 7 Beta and get RC1. Metro PCS says $5 a month for International calls. Sharp TV busted. Boxee now has Windows version. Also they do a deal with MLB. Microsoft sees mobile advertising increasing. Meanwhile Ballmer says ALL old media will be dead in 10 years. HP brags about 5101 Netbook. Larry Ellison looking good. IBM getting involved with food safety? Why?

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Intel in bed with Nokia. Why now? Steve Jobs seen on Apple Campus. Stock pickers are liking Motorola because of Android. Bogus HP PR. The company goes gah-gah over social networking too. Bing could ruin Microsoft. IBM in the battery business? Since when? Microsoft caps downloads for its security software. 3DV bought by Microsoft. Paul Allen offers a MSFT patch himself! The Nerd Bird flies again! Five reasons Blu-ray is hurting. Show sponsored by Squarespace.com codeword Tech.

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Apple promoting it’s current executive over Steve Jobs. This is fishy. HP’s new printer does not need a PC. Why? FTC going after the bloggers and Twitterers. Microsoft poaching people left and right. Never works out. The Buick is being re-positioned. It is ridiculous. Apple bans Commodore 64 from iPhone. Why? Who cares? Microsoft will put 10-percent of its income into search. Why? Kodachrome is officially dead. Sony Blu-ray a dud!

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Google trying to filter porn for the Chinese. Poor woman nailed by RIAA for $2 million. Bozeman wants workers to fork over their Facebook passwords. No Xbox360 anytime soon. Natal controller seems to be dead in the water. Win7 wallpaper on Netbooks may not be changeable. Why? Zune using new nVidia chip. New Sony laptops to have Blu-ray inside. Canada giving up on warrants when it comes to the Internet. This show brought to you by Squarespace.com code word TECH.

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