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Intel Sends Power, Sound Through the Air

Great now we can all get brain cancer while recharging our laptops.

Beneath the Game Sector Hype

ATVI (Modern Warfare) up 225% since Jan 1 2005
SNDA (China online gaming) up 69% since Jan 1 2005

There's no point in making selective arguments against a sector; you have to look at the sector as a whole.

Enterprise IT at a Crossroad

An interesting article. However "the cloud" consists primarily of vague marketing spiels as shown here. A recent study showed that cloud computing is actually MORE expensive for larger corporations. And let's not forget that cloud computing is still the poor brother of any dedicated network application in terms of true performance.

The one thing these spiels all have in common are the "fear factor" approach to proselytizing the concept of cloud computing : "Quick! get on train now! Or it will be TOO LATE for you and your IT organization!!!" What this really is about is yet another effort to drive IT purchasing into another black-hole, unproven solution at huge cost (and great benefit to providers of software and hardware).
Oh yes. Let's not forget the despite the extravagant claims, cloud computing is really a rebranding of co-location services with some addtional management tools which are (mostly) still in development and unproven.
For corporations with huge transactional requirements and critical performance? I don't think so.

Umpqua Holdings: Taking My Profits

Missed out on that one, huh? Oh ye of little faith! Expect money to continue into this stable, divi-paying player.