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Obama’s health plan woes

Rob @ July 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The keystone for Obama’s legislative docket was to pass his healthcare bill.  The goal is to offer government sponsored health insurance to help cover the 40 million plus people without any insurance at all, and also compete against insurance companies to keep costs down.  The plan looks great on paper and Obama has sworn he will […]

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Console war

Rob @ July 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Years ago, Nintendo was top dog with its high-tech Super Nintendo system and the supreme ruling of Mario over all other competitors.  Mario and Luigi laid the smackdown to Sonic and Tails for a long time, then Sony entered the market. Powered by its CD driven system — compared to game cartridges like Sega and […]

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Tiger’s not doing grrrrrreat

Rob @ July 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Tiger Woods was a name that evoked images of gold and glitter.  He was a force stronger than a hurricane, capable of knocking down an entire field of play.  He had the precision of a Navy SEAL with a sniper rifle that shot golf balls into the cup with uncanny accuracy. Then Tiger Woods succumbed […]

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Apple nips Palm in the USB socket

Rob @ July 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The Palm Pre, launched from as Sprint’s iPhone-esque device, is capable of everything and more.  As it has been in the past, nothing exactly branded as an iPhone killer has actually done anything other than fall flat on its back, scaling the mountain casting the smartphone shadow.

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Laptop wars

Rob @ July 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The last several months have seen Microsoft and Apple launching creative ad campaigns that have heated up the rivalry between the two giants.  Apple’s commercials launched after the horrible failure that was Windows Vista and showed Apple to be the easier, more user-friendly choice for laptops and computers based on operating system alone.  Apple has […]

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Spur gets cold feet at eleventh hour

Rob @ July 17, 2009 # One Comment

Richard Jefferson cancelled his wedding in the most bizarre of ways.   In the past, couples usually dissolved prior to becoming engaged, but sometimes it doesn’t work out and they break things off before the wedding.  Most couples, not even famous celebrities and athletes like Richard Jefferson, won’t wait until two hours before the deed […]

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Facebook 750 million away from one billion

Rob @ July 16, 2009 # 2 Comments

Facebook has gained a lot of popularity and has picked up steam as it competes with Myspace for online social networking supremacy.  Unlike Myspace however, Facebook’s quarter billion proclamation (with Myspace boasting similar numbers) is more substantial than Myspace’s because Facebook has long been tied to more actual users instead of pop-up spam accounts that […]

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Absurdity of collusion in baseball

Rob @ July 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Last winter, the free agent market for Major League Baseball experienced one of the rarest situations since the free agency came about.  In years past, bidding wars between teams filled the free agency period, with teams spending big bucks to get the hottest players available and fill their rosters with talent that held the potential […]

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Google’s new grill: Chrome is in

Rob @ July 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Google announced last year that Android would be revolutionary in the way that operating systems worked, and with its phone release, it showed promise.   It seems that even with the warm reception, Google has gone with the majority of the population in saying, So what?  As a results, Android has become a thing of […]

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Obama speaks of social evolution in repressed Russia

Rob @ July 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Obama has a difficult task ahead of him in repairing relations with Russia.   Since World War II, Russia and the United States haven’t been the best of friends, spending several decades in a Cold War until Reagan knocked a brick from a wall and the Soviet Union came crashing down.  Obama has vowed to […]

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