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Scoble is a big .NET idiot
Hey, if you’re gonna screw up, don’t make a little teeny mistake that you can sweep under the carpet and pretend you didn’t make. No, go out and prove yourself an idiot in a big way!!!That’s what I did today when I wrote about .NET’s moves to share source with developers. The reason I made [...]

Robot helicopter attack video
Here’s the autonomous robot helicopter video that we saw at Stanford University. Rocky is cheering on the robots to attack me and one does. The full video with interviews with the team members that explain what these things are and how they work will be up next week.Basically they have laser and other sensors that [...]

Verizon claims it has “iPhone killer”
Reuters reports on a new iPhone killer (Verizon’s claim, not mine) that’s coming soon from Verizon. Sounds great. Can’t wait to try it. I doubt people will wait in line, but who knows?Ahh, maybe this is why Steve Jobs lowered the price to $399 for the iPhone. Now that seems like an even more brilliant [...]

A Challenge to the Zune Advocates
OK, I’m taking quite a bit of heat from the Zune advocates in my comments — lots of them think I’m an idiot for bagging on Microsoft. So, here’s a challenge.I’ll give you one hour of airtime on ScobleShow.com to make the case for the Zune. You gotta come to my house in Half Moon [...]

Microsoft: releasing source after everyone else?
Another defensive move on part of Microsoft? Protect the tools business!So, Sun Microsystems open sourced Java.Adobe open sourced Flex.Now Microsoft is releasing the source of .NET. UPDATE: Krish points out that this isn’t open sourcing .NET, just releasing the source. That’s even lamer cause the other two have actually open sourced and are accepting submissions [...]

Is Microsoft in Zune to win?
When I interviewed Steve Ballmer a few years back he said Microsoft is in the game to win.But when you’re inside Microsoft the employees use different language. Many projects there are simply defensive ones. To keep a competitor from getting more inroads into one of its businesses. iPod, for instance, isn’t threatening to Microsoft directly, [...]

How to piss off Mike Arrington…
If you know Mike, founder of TechCrunch, you know that old-school media pisses him off so Henry Blodget today found a great way to piss off Mike. Say that CNET is gonna buy him. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mike buying CNET in a few years. I don’t think Henry’s really serious, it’s [...]

Matt Roe cracks me up
A few weeks back we toured the USS Hornet, a famous aircraft carrier that’s docked over in Alameda near San Francisco. Rocky put together a neat little video of the photowalk. But even if you don’t get much out of our photowalks you should check out the first minute or two. Matt Roe has the [...]