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Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
September 27, 2006

A startup formed by Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and two other Apple veterans bought a Newport Beach semiconductor company for $260 million.

Wozniak, former Apple chairman and CEO, and former COO Gil Amelio and CTO Ellen Hancock formed Acquicor Technolcogy Inc. and their first acquisition was the [...]

More astroturfing on net neutrality issue 8/23/2006 3:22:44 PM, by Eric Bangeman

Astroturf. Featured prominently in the cookie-cutter stadiums of the 60s and 70s, it is a pale imitation of the natural grass fields it replaced and attempted to resemble. In today’s lexicon, astroturfing has taken on a whole new meaning: industry groups masquerading as grassroots [...]

Ars Technica just published this tidbit called “Employers may face liability for connectivity addiction”:

Let’s begin with a hypothetical situation: You are hired to do a job which requires you to drink alcoholic beverages. At the start, everything is fine, and you are in complete control. Over time, your employer begins to ask [...]

Ars Technica mentions in an article titled”Web 2.0, meet Astroturf 2.0:

“A new report from the non-profit group Common Cause details the ways that industry groups are setting up fake grassroots organizations (aka “astroturf” organizations) to join the fight against Net neutrality legislation. Five such groups are profiled in the newly released report, entitled Wolves in [...]

Search the web for “Adnan Hajj” and you’ll get plenty of reading on doctored news photos making their way into mainstream media. In this case, Reuters published a very obviously Photoshoped image.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. If an image is worth a thousand words, there seems to be no lack of people [...]

I just caught this on eWeek: “Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs”, by Peter Galli—August 7, 2006

“Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said.

“As Virtual [...]