Henry Cipolla

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What does the Cash for Clunkers achieve?

What does the Cash for Clunkers achieve? By now most people have seen the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) bill (referred to as ‘Cash For Clunker’s). The stated goals are: Get gas guzzlers off the road to help sustain the environment Stimulate the economy by increasing car sales Unfortunately, the fine print on the article [...]

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Noteworthy things about the recent mobile phone launches

a quick recap of some of the things I personally found interesting or worth noting about all of the various smartphone announced / releases over the last few weeks: 1) TomTom is not the first GPS maker to have a mobile app When it was announced at WWDC that Tomtom was making an application for [...]

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Took a bit of a break there

It has been a little while since I’ve written anything. Hopefully all 0 of my loyal fans will look past this slight hiatus and continue to adore me. Obviously the bulk of my time has been taken up by my quest to start a successful software company with Andrew. While we have done quite a [...]

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Yet another absurd Slashdot story

Here we have another example of Slashdot taking non-news, making it sound very sensational, giving it some anti-Microsoft spin, and then passing it off as something newsworthy. Could you imagine how horribly skewed your perception of the world would be if you took every story and description on Slashdot as truth? Today’s example: Boot Record [...]

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