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The Evolution of the Diesel Engine

The talk about finding new alternative energy sources for our cars is not new. In fact, scientists and car engineers had begun finding ways to either use energy sources, or to optimize existing engine solutions back in the 1970’s.
People saw that big engines were very inefficient and they started looking for new solutions. The answer [...]

MSFT heart Windows Mobile

Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people…one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn’t use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product. To see just how passionate they can be, check out [...]

Thoughts on the 3G iPhone announcement

Apple’s 3G iPhone announcement today was probably the minimum necessary to please the community. The real news was the things that weren’t announced:
–No tablet device (again).
–No major changes to the form factor of the iPhone.
–No other major product announcements.
Apple has made its Macworld and WWDC keynotes into a specialized form of performance art, complete [...]

Nokia goes for 1% market share in the US

Okay, I’ll admit in advance that this is going to be a pretty snarky post, but it never ceases to amaze me how badly Nokia handles itself in the US market. In Europe and most of the rest of the world, Nokia operates like a fighter jet, incredibly nimble and powerful. But in [...]

WiMax gets closer and further away at the same time

A strangely cryptic article in the New York Times today announced that several companies had banded together “to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks” in the US (link). I read it and thought to myself: what, another new vaporware wireless technology? I couldn’t make sense of the [...]