thinking-the-unthinkable-is-oracle-considering-buying-hp?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/08/22/thinking-the-unthinkable-is-oracle-considering-buying-hp/

"A hostile Oracle bid for HP would pit Larry and his sidekick Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP, against HP CEO – and former SAP co-CEO – Leo Apotheker, along with HP Chairman Ray Lane, who himself was once the #2 man at Oracle, and left when it became clear that Ellison had no plans to step down from the top job. Meanwhile, HP is furious with Oracle from its announcement earlier this year that it will no longer develop software for the Itanium server processor that HP had developed with Intel. These two companies do not like each other, and it is hard to imagine they could work out friendly terms. This is a smack down I'd pay money to see."

photography buffs should check out this site...

this dude got the skillz.

http://kristinandkayla.blogspot.com/

mobile patent wars

all roads lead to apple...

http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/0817_POST-1_Mobile-Patents.jpg

NYT: Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-chief-without-meeting-him.xml

"However hasty the process, board members felt they had little choice. "I believe the search committee did a good job. They worked hard. There were very few choices," one participant said. " So many people they called said they weren't interested. People didn't want to follow in Mark's footsteps. But Mr. Apotheker was a mistake. We all made it. Sometimes you make a mistake."
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She’ll Stick to Apotheker’s HP Strategies

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-22/hewlett-packard-says-meg-whitman-will-succeed-apotheker-as-chief-executive.html

"Whitman defended her record at the helm of EBay.

"I have run a large company -- not obviously as large as HP, but I have run a very large company," she said. "While I don't have years of experience in an enterprise business, I bought a lot of software. I was one of the largest enterprise customers in Silicon Valley."

"That's like saying, 'I've bought an iPhone, so I can run Apple Inc. (AAPL)" said Whitmore at Deutsche Bank."
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China Creates "Infinite Hero Bacon" by Cloning Invincible Earthquake Pig

http://m.gizmodo.com/5841491/china-unlocks-infinite-hero-bacon-achievement-by-cloning-invincible-earthquake-pig

"After the massive earthquake struck and killed tens of thousands of people in Sichaun and neighboring Shaanxi and Gansu on May 12, 2008, Zhu Jianqiang survived against all odds under the rubble by eating charcoal and drinking rain water. His harrowing tale was embraced as a natural coping mechanism for the devastated citizenry, and now his genetic superstuff will be kept alive for generations to come."

One more reason I love my Atrix

I can has a screenshot app without having to root my phone!

Thank you Edward Kim and "Screenshot It".

I find the ability to take screenshots incredibly useful.  Used it all the time on my Samsung Galaxy Tab then went thru a series of devices that did not allow it. :(

One day I will have the guts to root my phone, but that day is not today.

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/06/screenshot-grabs-atrixs-screen-root-required/

New Android apps I love

Parcels - tracks your incoming packages and days to delivery in one list. Just choose the carrier and paste in the tracking number. Let's you name your packages too.

Pocket Auctions - mobile ebay app, makes it easy to search items, and manage buying and selling. It reminded me yesterday that I had a win that apparently has not shipped yet. Much better than viewing the mobile site on my phone.

QuickPic - replacement for Gallery, which under Motorola Blur is a hot mess, only one directory for sdcard pix with no option to create more. Blur's Gallery doesn't allow changing the sort order so I always had to scroll, scroll, scroll to the other end of the Gallery.
QuickPic makes it easy to move files into new directories, AND sorts in descending time order so newest pix are in front. Apparently replicates Gallery functionality found on other phones.

Lol Sites - easy viewing of Lol Cats, Lol Dogs, People of Walmart, EpicWin, Failblog, etc. Cannot tell you how much time i have wasted on this.

RageReader - if you read Reddit you have run across these, cartoons using a standard set of cartoon faces representing happy, stupid, perplexed, smug, and of course rage emotions. Immature, profane, and an acquired taste. But it's amazing how many situations can be represented by about 5 emotions. Have wasted even more time here. Makes want to post these faces to Facebook as comments.

Perhaps the size of the GM Volt?

http://m.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/10/power-substation-seems-less-formidable-than-it/

"Officials with the state's largest public utility said that the worker was switching off a series capacitor, a piece of equipment the size of a small car, at the substation. The capacitor was having trouble earlier in the day."
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My husband is a "Trolldad" - Trolldad | Know Your Meme

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trolldad

I spend way too much time browsing Reddit and RageReader

Trolling at the airport gone wrong... :)
http://i.imgur.com/hz4Co.png

Shared using #RageReader for Android http://bit.ly/rreader

How Apple has found success in China, and why it's just the beginning. - TNW AppleTNW Apple

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/09/05/how-apple-has-found-success-in-china-and-why-its-just-the-beginning/

" Together, the iPhone and iPad accounted for 60.98% of Apple's revenue in the last four quarters.

Numbers like these are why Apple is so hot to get the iPhone launched in a big way in China. Although the companyhas been selling the iPhone officially on China Unicom since 2009, Unicom is the smallest of the three major Chinese carriers.

Of course, when we saysmall, we're talking about 180 million subscribers, more thanAT&T or Verizon in the US. That's how big the potential market for the iPhone is in China.

The big fish is reallyChina Mobile, the 616 million-subscriber juggernaut that is China's largest mobile carrier. That's why it's not surprising that then-COO Tim Cook was seen visiting China Mobile in June. Apple wants to get this deal made.

Even more evidence came in the form of China Mobile's chairman Wang Jianzhou stating during an earnings call last month that then-CEO Steve Jobs had met with him several times already about the deal."

Bets on smashing success in Las Vegas - Economy - NZ Herald Mobile

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/economy/news/article.php?c_id=34&objectid=10749289

"Ed Mumm started Dig This after renting and operating an excavator for two days while building a house in Colorado.

"I thought to myself: 'If I'm having this much fun, imagine the number of people who don't get to do this stuff who would love to do this'," he said."