Art of the Silicon Valley publicity stunt: Ellison vs. Benioff
Give me my million back, I'll take my dreamy keynote to St. Regis. Bagels and Clouds for all!
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Stark Sips: 2010 Honker Blanc Sauvignon Blanc ($14, 88 pts.)
No one, it seems, just drinks a glass of wine anymore. They savor the terroir, wax poetic about vines... sing about exotic grapes like Fiano.
Hollywood bound
Can you guess where we are, and on which train?
Scoring Tim Cook, Apple iPhone 5… oops 4S
And... greeting cards?! Talk about filler. Next time, they should just stop the presentation, and have us all do the downward dog.
Scoring Adobe: HTML5, Creative Cloud, Touch Apps
Cutting loose Flash and embracing open source are wins.
Napa Wines: 5 picks from Mount Veeder
Tom Meadowcroft on how he ended up making wine for the A.J. Foyt racing team: "They just called me up, and said 'Hey, I hear…
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook getting axed?
It looks like it's easier for the likes of Apple and Google to sell to the enterprise than it is for RIM to sell to…
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On News: Google, RSS, Editorial
I'm still at the mercy of what are ultimately little bots scouring the WWW to surface what mathematicians think is the right stuff.
Prediction: $199 Kindle Fires = this holiday’s Cabbage Patch kids
There's carnage aplenty in the iPad's wake including RIM (BlackBerry PlayBook), and HP (WebOS). But Amazon (with Google's help) could be a force.