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Unless you have been living under a rock this week, you probably have watched the “story of the week” unfold. Yeah, the one about the next generation iPhone appearing at a bar in Redwood City and somehow getting into the hands of Gizmodo, which now according to CNET, is being looked into by the Santa Clara police department checking into the possibility of theft charges – for whom not clear yet.

Ashlee Vance’s comprehensive piece on Microsoft in the New York Times yesterday raised a few question that are often pondered here in Silicon Valley: can big companies run a decent 40-yard dash?  And do they want to anyway?
Vance gives plenty of column inches to critics’ who characterize “Microsoft’s path as a long spiral toward irrelevance.”  Author Nicholas G. [...]

Less than 48 hours after hearing U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra address a gathering of Churchill Club members at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, I find myself a bit skeptical about what I heard.
Big picture, I’m delighted we now have a Chief Technology Officer, and I’m heartened that he’s ostensibly focused on [...]

Even Robert Scoble admitted it’s not easy being a one man news brand today. “It’s hard to get that traffic to build a business,” he said, while acknowledging he had a staggering 90,000 followers on Twitter. “You’re scratching for every viewer to come along.”
If it’s hard for him, it’s hard for anyone. And, of course, [...]