I’ve been reading around and about the innertubes today, and there is a lot of speculation about what will happen next week. Well, here at Rip Ragged we strive to maintain your knowledge of the future at its absolute dancing-naked-on-a-razor-blade-multiple-orgasmic-jeez-us-I-have-to-urinate peak.
Before we lay bare the raw, unvarnished future let me say that no one has [...]

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Nope.
Gizmodo reports and the echosphere rattles. Another Jobsian health rumor hit the innertubes on the penultimate trading day of the year.
Coincidence? You do the arithmetic.
Ghoulish pigs.
Just between us kids, I’m beginning to think that the internet almost requires discarding taste, decency, and morality before you can be considered a participant.
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As a general thing, I don’t [...]

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The Macalope is one of my favorite bloggers. In the Apple blogosphere, he’s certainly my second favorite, right after me. In his most recent post, he rips into Rob Enderle. Rob Enderle has written something again.
Meh.
Enderle’s opinions suit those who pay for them. He knows nothing about business. He’s a lousy writer. The fact that [...]

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I remember when I was a kid, TV shows would sometimes break in with a news flash. Well, there isn’t any news to flash today. Or any news about Flash today, either. That is not stopping anyone from writing about it in the echosphere, though.
You know what I’m talking about. It’s that “Flash on the [...]

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I read it. I think it was on Forbes. Some cat named “Common” uses it. There you have it.
As soon as Microsoft gets through with the whole “Vista Capable” thing maybe Zune will lift them up to being a cutting edge company again. Of course, that should be just about time for “Windows 7 Suitable.”
Just [...]

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Over on ChannelWeb, Brian Kraemer opines that the iPhone probably isn’t invincible in spite of numerically irrefutable data that says it is.
It’s the number 2 smartphone provider ahead of RIM, selling more units than RAZR (which, in recent promotions you can get a service discount a rebate and a kiss from a cute cashier if [...]

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