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  1. Terrific, insightful, common sense blog by IT guru Andrew Baker on why firms standardize on IT technology @ http://bit.ly/5J1kp7
  2. Storage continues to be a bright spot: EMC leads followed by IBM, HP, Dell & NetApp. Enterprise storage demands triple, quadruple YoY
  3. HP expected to report strong financials later today. HP should beat street on: cost cutting; strong services + strong consumer & enterprise
  4. Dell sales slipped 15% to $12.9B; income dropped 54%. But Dell optimistic due to strong demand for Win7; Dell must also sell more consumer
  5. Lot of hopes and future revenue riding on Windows 7: Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba & Sony to name a few...
  6. Gap between womens vs. mens pay widens: women now make $.77 for every $1 men make, down from $.78 in 2007, Bureau of Labor says
  7. Electric fish like eels have a dimmer switch that lets them automatically turn down the lights; wish my utility company could do that!
  8. Tube TVs use 1/3 the energy of plasma TV s;43% < than LCDs, says PG&E; Californians buy 11% of US's TVs - 4M a year. Talk about power drain
  9. California sets limits on LCD, plasma TV power consumption: go green or go dark. 42" TVs must use < 183 watts by 2011 & <116 watts by 2013.
  10. Rumor mill: Apple may do a Black Friday sale of 15% to 30% off. Hope this one is true...
  11. Take that Cisco: HP buys 3Com for $2.5B cash. Network giants continue to grow by acquisition as they invade rivals' spaces. Very interesting
  12. AMD's challenge: find a way to spike sales and gain marketshare worldwide. Intel is tough but so is AMD & it's chips are excellent
  13. Intel's slate not totally wiped clean: chipmaker still faces actions by US FTC and EC regulatory bodies. AMD's shares soar on news.
  14. Intel pays AMD $1.25B to settle anti-trust & patent suits in US & Japan. Intel agrees to abide by set of fair business practices. Good move
  15. Latest Msft Patch Tuesday count: 6 bulletins to fix 15 Windows & Office bugs. Msft security is better, but battle is never-ending.
  16. Popularity has its price: Apple releases mega-patch to fix 58 OS X security vulnerabilities. Security by obscurity days may be over 4 Macs
  17. Cisco, which cut 2500 jobs in early '09 may start hiring again after latest strong quarter financial results.
  18. Still profitable Adobe Systems to cut 680 jobs -9% of workforce in bid to boost profit margins.
  19. One silver lining in EC cloud: Neelie Kroes term as EC trade commissioner is set to expire at the end of 2009.
  20. EC has initiated antitrust actions against long list of US firms: Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle the list keeps growing