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Open Letter to David Oringdulph – Housing Market Abuse

Posted in Legend Homes, Oregonian, Real Estate, prognostication, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’ve avoided the entire “Chicken Little” the sky is falling on the housing market to pump up my blog stats. But, I’m sooooo tired of the constant whining about the mortgage crisis and especially annoyed at a naive article from Matrix Development (Legend Homes) CEO, David Oringdulph on Sunday, October 21st that Ryan Frank [...]

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Ho, Ho, Ho – It’s A Merry Imus Season!

Posted in Imus, Life, Talk Radio, WABC, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Is this a bad dream? Imus coming back to the radio dial? Not to satellite radio, but to AM radio…didn’t he just leave? Didn’t the broadcast exec’s learn anything? I previously blogged on this HERE.
For nearly 3 whole weeks the offensive Imus statement focused attention on offensive [...]

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Tektronix and Craftsman Tools?

Posted in Bruggere, Coffee, Danaher, Howard Vollum, Langler, Technology, Tektronix, tagged , , , , , , , on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

They have something in common now that the grand-daddy of Oregon’s high-tech will be sold to a Washington, D.C., conglomerate called Danaher Corp. (DHR) for $2.8 billion in cash. They offered $38 per share prior to the NYSE opening bell and Tek gained 33% to a five year high. And to think the [...]

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Intel Launches Cool Software

Posted in CoolSW, Intel®, Technology, prediction, tagged , , , , , , on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There was joke floating around a few years ago about “What’s the difference between Intel, Inc. and Jurassic Park?”  As the joke goes one is a high tech dinosaur park and the other is a movie! 

Well, these days Intel is firing on all cylinders and the latest activity from the semiconductor company is not typical…they launched [...]

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Leahy/Hatch Patent Reform Bill (S 1145)

Posted in Government, Hatch, Leahy, S1145, Technology, tagged , , , , on October 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »

The hi-tech industry is rediscovering the value of intellectual property rights with a major legislative win on Sept 7th as the House of Representatives approved the first significant overhaul of patent law in 50 years.  Most hi-tech companies are at minimum watching, but many are actively engaged in the effort to overhaul the U.S. patent [...]

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TechCrunch 40 Observations

Posted in Techcrunch40, Technology on October 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I recently attended Techcrunch 40.  A new conference hosted by TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis with the support of many sponsors.  The format was dead simple — give 40 of the hottest startups from around the world an opportunity to announce and demo their products at a conference. The companies didn’t pay anything to do this.  A [...]

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