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Motorola Divides To Conquer

This morning, Motorola CEO Greg Brown said he will break Motorola into two separate companies: one company for mobile phones, and another for everything else, which includes set-top boxes, police radio systems and tools to run wireless networks.Iits troubled mobile devices business will become an individual publicly traded entity under a new management team. This [...]

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iPhone Case Doesn’t Scratch

The new invisibleSHIELD case for iPhones, iPods and other electronic devices originally created for the U. S. military to protect helicopter blades. It is a specially patented thin, polyurethane film that does not scratch. The invisibleSHIELD case is invisible and invincible – the shield does not scratch and protects your cell phones and MP3 players, [...]

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Other Bay Area HQs

There were several big business headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area that I rode past every day, including Pixar Studios, Peet Coffee, Bayer Biotech, and Novartis. The Bay Area is a magnet for biotechnology as well as the southern neighbor of San Jose being Silicon Valley with the world headquarters of Yahoo, Google, EBay [...]

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I Miss WordPad

How many years ago did someone decide that WordPad doesn’t need to be included as a Windows accessory? Now you get Notepad, which is good for stripping out unwanted formatting and keeping short notes on the desktop. But WordPad did a few more advanced things, like displaying the hyperlinks when you copy and paste a [...]

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Austin Technology

Everyone knows that second to San Jose, the best city in America for tech companies is Austin. The home office of Dell Computers and thousands of software and computer related companies all have either home offices or satellite offices in Austin. This is true for Pragma Systems, too. This company was founded in 1990 to [...]

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