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Skype Mobile, Zillow Zissues

Posted by rexdixon on October 28, 2006

Skype mobile. That seems to be a winner idea. I guess the eBay buy out is making Skype folks jump ship though. Too bad, I’m on Skype right now.

Zillow might have hit a road bump. I guess bad press is still good though. It gives your company some press that it might have never received; at least Technically Speaking.

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CarsDirect, Microsoft, FON, HomeSeer

Posted by rexdixon on October 28, 2006

CarsDirect looks to be Mike’s pick site to help the consumer buy a vehicle. You can see his car in the article that he wrote. Nice in depth article on how the site worked for him.

The Supreme Court said Friday that it would intervene in a patent dispute between giants Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas.

The WiFi-sharing company gave away 500 FON routers to those milling around, mostly workers on their lunch break. It’s not too hard to give away free routers and get people to take them — the hard part will be making any money, especially in the U.S.

HomeSeer just unveiled its newly unveiled PRO-100 Series-II. The home automation controller ups the ante on last year’s Series-I by housing a 1.5GHz Intel Celeron processor, 1GB of DDR RAM, four RS-232 serial ports, a pair of USB 2.0 inputs, Ethernet, audio in / out, and Windows XP already embedded.

Technically Speaking, The 2006 St. Louis Cardinal’s are baseball’s World Champion!

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2006 St. Louis Cardinals - World Champions!

Posted by rexdixon on October 28, 2006

Even though the so called “mainstream” press discounts the World Series this year as aWorld Champion St. Louis Cardinals! losing event as in this morning’s SI article - quote - “
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No Fall Classic, for sure.

Flatter than the Midwestern heartland and a flop in the TV ratings, this World Series crowned a champion that barely made it to the postseason and then had to survive rain and cold as much as the bumbling Detroit Tigers.

World Series Trophy - 2006 St. Louis CardinalsGuess what? It really does NOT matter what they write, Technically Speaking the overweight, beer chugging, hard liquor drinking, smoke another one — SI writer people don’t get on the field and win games or for that matter lose them. Bottom line - The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals are Major League Baseball’s - World Series Winner and the 2006 World Series Champions!

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