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Other News: Moto's Slide. Motorola drops off the top-ten chipmakers list - for the first time in history. [MacInTouch]
In my ongoing debate about whether or not to switch I present this factoid. Motorola is moving less product, and this is death to a company in an industry that requires Capital Expenditures of ~2billion for each new revision of it's chip making processes. Intel poops out 2 new fab plants a YEAR. How do you compete against that! Motorola has always had other markets away from the desktop market, and this has helped them stay afloat, but there are a lot of players in Motorola's niche markets, and it's increasingly harder to compete in those markets with outsourced, hired gun fabs like TMSC. That's where Nvidia fabs its own designs. One stop shops like Motorola will fall by the wayside in the face of monopoly providers like Intel.
7:07:09 PM 
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Oregon Scientific releases flash thincam. Oregon Scientific today released "the world's thinnest" 1.3-megapixel digital camera with an 8mm sup... [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network]
The first version of this camera is based on the same guts as my Logitech Pocket Digital, my first and currently only digital camera. This new model uses the first full revision of the basic Smal Camera developer kit. And the SD card is a nice touch. The higher resolution might also wind up being a great side benefit. I hope Logitech has a revision scheduled for the Pocket Digital and makes a new model for this coming year. I bought my current camera about this time last year, and have taken so many pictures, it boggles my mind. Can't wait to see what this camera looks like when Oregon starts shipping it.
7:01:51 PM
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Atom evolves despite RSS transfer. A key sticking point in the debate over Weblog-related standards was addressed last week when UserLand Software transferred ownership of its RSS 2.0 specification to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. [InfoWorld: Top News]
I think everyone agrees that RSS moving to Harvard was a good idea. Now the other talking points can be addressed and resolved, making the RSS a bona-fide standard with clearly defined and published API's. This is one spec, no one should be allowed to OWN outright.
6:58:07 PM
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Report: Inadequate IT contributed to 9/11 intelligence failure. A report by the joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks highlights a lack of IT infrastructure and technology turf battles that continued even after the attacks. [Computerworld News]
I do believe that adding the Department of Homeland Security doesn't help the animosity between the CIA and NSA, or help them share info better with the FBI. I think it adds yet another organization against which the other 3 will chafe. Wasn't there a time in the not so distant past where the CIA didn't exist? And isn't the same true for the NSA. The FBI is older than any of them, it was created by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906 I think. Why were they the odd man out. Is it because they were "domestic" and not "international", I think all these organizations lord their privileges over one another, especially when it comes to issues of scope. The bigger the scope, the wider the geography, the bigger the acclaim, the bigger the budget.
7:40:00 AM
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