Yahoo Time Capsule?

Technically Speaking, somehow I must have been asleep at the wheel last week when this went down. Yahoo apparently had this event go down last Thursday? News to me! I didn’t read about this anywhere, until just now!

IBM sends jobs to China, Qantas Airlines ship 400 IT jobs to India, and MORE!

This actually was going to be a post just about IBM, but the article is much like this blog. Quick hit articles.

Technically Speaking, the top 2 articles about IBM and Qantas Airlines do not bode well for the economy here in the USA or Australia for 2007.

Google – Culture Enhances Innovation

Maintaining Google’s culture of innovation is a hot internal topic as the Internet search king turns eight this fall and opens offices in such cities as Beijing, Zurich and Bangalore.

In the past three years, Google’s work force has more than tripled, to 9,000 employees, and the company has launched a new product nearly every week, including some widely regarded as flops. When its offerings don’t catch on, Google isn’t shy about snapping up the competition, as it did this month when it agreed to acquire online video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

Technically Speaking, is that enough Google for you readers?

Google Racing To Digitize Libraries

Google is racing to be the first to digitize the nation’s libraries. As previously blogged about here, the University Of Wisconsin has given the thumbs up to Google. Microsoft (or is it Microsoft-Ubuntu?) and Yahoo are also in this race. Who will win?

Technically Speaking, the company with the most cash will win the race; or in this case unfortunately that won’t apply as I believe the HOT ticket will get to the finish line first.

Free.fr CEO handed suspended jail sentence

Free.fr who I have posted about here before, Xavier Niel, the chief executive of Free’s parent company, Iliad, was handed a suspended jail sentence for embezzling funds from a sex shop that allegedly was a front for prostitution racket. Technically Speaking, that is mixing sex and broadband!

Bill Gates Recommends Ubuntu

Originally found here on this blog, the picture is humor that everyone should be able to understand; Technically Speaking Bill Gates probably even got a smile out of this:

Smartmatic

Smartmatic is one of the possible brand names of voting machines you may run across next week at the polls on Tuesday November 7th, 2006. The other of course is the Diebold one. I find it quite interesting that the US government is now investigating the machine due to ties with the Venezuela government.

Technically Speaking, Rex Dixon and Hugo Chavez are drinking buddies – in another life! Honestly, NO, Hugo and Rex don’t hang out, — that was a JOKE — but it’s a good way to let everyone know —- Let’s Test The System next week!

LeWeb3, MySpace, TopTenSources, TV, Spam

Let me first clarify, none of the words following each of the commas have anything to do with the other word. Is that clear? I hope so. They do however refer to the 5 topics that will be posted in the below paragraphs. ONE topic per paragraph. That is the way I post things on this blog. I would guess 90% of the time, the word or phrase prior to the comma is in no way related to the next word of phrase. Now that all of that is out of the way, time to catch up on what is going on today…

LeWeb3 is being held on December 11-12th in Paris, France. It is a two days conference to discuss the next generation web and mobile services, virtual games/communties, old and new media and other topics. It is organized by Loic Le Meur of Six Apart. Speaking of Six Apart, I am actually quite impressed by the speed and ease of use of their new service Vox.

MySpace is now trying to protect copyrights. They have partnered up with a California startup called Gracenote. This will all be announced on Monday, but you can be in the know by then because you read the blogs!

TopTenSources scores $3.5 million in a venture round led by Highland Capital. The company is a human edited blog aggregator. They are also announcing they just acquired Blogniscient – a TechMeme type of news aggregator. The number of internet companies today boggles the mind. I guess we can all be thankful for the blogs!

Reinventing Television. I say the internet has already done that in the past 6-12 months. I for one am glad that you can watch online, and not be tied to the tube. Of course, this leads you to being tied to another tube all together! Glad it was in the 70’s today, I was able to get outside and actually do some needed yard work.

What’s behind all that SPAM you get these days? The ones with the kanji, the unintelligeable characters, and the ones with words such as FrEe V$I$A$G#R*A! as the subject line? It might just be a BOT! More like a BOT network. Look out, you remember the Terminator movie right? Who knows how close we are to that craziness! Okay, it’s just SPAM, right?

Technically Speaking, I want to apologize for the first paragraph above. I realize that the majority of my regular readers have already figured this out just by returning a few times a day. I just wanted to clarify my posting style for those that can’t use their God given common sense and realize after reading a few of my posts, what my style is for this blog.

BlueTie, more on VOX

BlueTie is another hosted e-mail service based on AJAX. This company has actually been around since 1999. Mike gave a great review, and says it’s a very fast service.

Vox – well I saw the ad on TechCrunch this morning, and I decided that I should check it out further by signing up for an account. From my initial walk thru, it does seem like a nice blogging service. You can find Rex Dixon there on Vox.

Technically Speaking, it’s a beautiful day for a parade here in St. Louis, MO!