MC2 Post 1104 Are Publishers Trying To Kill Another Golden Goose

Apple, Publishers Sued Over e-book 

Pricing as Sales Jump

Link:  http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/09/apple_publishers_sued_over_e_book_pricing_as_sales_jump.html

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/4xkuofg

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New MC2 Trending TECH Topic Logo

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Courts Ban Sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab in Europe

Link:  http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/courts-ban-sale-of-samsung-galaxy-tab-in-europe/

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Amazon Cloud Outage: What Can Be Learned?

Link:  http://informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/231300449

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China Hit by 480,000 Trojan Horse Attacks in 2010

Link:  http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/237662/china_hit_by_480000_trojan_horse_attacks_in_2010.html 

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Fuel-efficiency rules set for heavy-duty trucks and buses

Link:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/administration-sets-fuel-efficiency-rules-for-heavy-duty-

trucks-and-buses/2011/08/09/gIQAn4Zv4I_story.html

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RIM, Apple, Vermillion, Ikea, RIAA: Intellectual Property

Good Piece about How RIM is Helping London Police investigating the use of the company's messaging service by rioters to plan disturbances.

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First China Copied Apple Stores, Now they have Ikea Look-Alike Chinese Stores

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Link:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/10/bloomberg1376-LPOIXN0UQVI901-258B0IDBORQSM493KQ9LLFVETK.DTL

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Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress will announce on Wednesday that Philip Levine, best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit, 

is to be the next poet laureate, succeeding W. S. Merwin.

Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/books/philip-levine-is-to-be-us-poet-laureate.html

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MC2 Post 656 HP to the Rescue?

HP to the Rescue?

Hewlett-Packard has made a surprise $1.2 billion bid 

for troubled mobile maker Palm.

Link: http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/4/28/hp-makes-low-ball-rescue-bid-for-palm/
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HP Buys Palm

You probably were not expecting this

Link:  http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1603448/hp-buys-palm

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Phones, tablets, netbooks: 

taking stock of the HP/Palm deal

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2cf5h2b

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Cloud PIX:

Where Are LA's Documents Going?

Out THERE SomeWhere ???

Los Angeles Snubs Microsoft for Google

Los Angeles, California has announced that it will move its 30,000 employess to Google Apps rather than Microsoft Office.

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1603486/los-angeles-snubs-microsoft-google

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Apple Buys Siri

Users can speak commands like "send a taxi to my house" or "get me a girlfriend who is just as fanatical about Apple as I am" and other impossible tasks.

The software uses GPS and speech-recognition technology, and the application translates the commands and uses search algorithms 
to find answers.

Hmmm. Trying to get rid of Google's search service off the iPhone, iPod Touch and the New iPad.

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1603477/apple-buys-siri

Webpage Before the Apple Buy: http://siri.com/

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Wingman Buying in on Buy Outs.

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Stephen Colbert had an iPad... On The Grammy's

Yes, I admit it, I Jumped when I Saw It!!!

Stephen Colbert had an iPad... On The Grammy's.

Now Why Doesn't Microsoft Do Stuff Like That?

Engadget Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/31/stephen-colbert-has-an-ipad/

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And What Are The iPad Hackers Finding?

Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, 

file downloads, and SMS 

(update: handwriting keyboard?)

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/confirmed-iphone-os-3-2-has-support-for-video-calling-file-dow/

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It Goes Both Ways, 

Yea!!!

iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch

Under 50 days away from the earliest iPad deliveries.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/30/ipad-ui-gets-ported-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch/

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What About Flash on the iPad?

Adobe on Flash and the iPad: 

'Apple is continuing 

to impose restrictions on their devices'

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/adobe-on-flash-and-the-ipad-apple-is-continuing-to-impose-rest/

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 Stephen Colbert, Keeps Saying: "I Want An iPad!" on his Show.

And I Guess, the Wingman Does Too!


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iPAD?: iMissed It By That Much Blog

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Missed It By That Much

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All Mouth's were Agape at the 

Apple "Event",  Yesterday.

You Would have thought you made a wrong turn, and ended up

at a "Window's Event".

So much Promise, So little Delivered.

This is the Wingman's Take.

( Please remember, My iPod Touch IS Jailbroken. )

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Here Are The Problems:

1. Too Pricey ( Better Not wait a Month on a Price Drop Here )

2. No Camera ( Big Ball Drop here )

3. No Real Operating System ( Just an iTouch Hand-Me-Down )

4. All That Space and No Multitasking ( Move Over Newton )

5. Where's the "Beef", the "New Interface" ? ( Brushed Aside, i Guess )

There Are Things About the iPad that are OK,

but I already Have an iTouch.

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So I expect a Lot.

But even the iPad's stupid name, makes

Window's "Zune" Almost Classy...

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Techmeme Links:  Were TOO Fricking Long,

491 Characters vs. 26?


Apple is not the only Bozo's This week.

Use the TinyURL instead: http://tinyurl.com/y9jcuh9

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Apple iPad Link:

Link: http://www.apple.com/ipad/

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Wingman: Watching the Apple FanBoy's Running for Cover.

They're Not Dumb you Know...
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Post 556: Is XO Really A Knockout or Knockoff?

OLPC Unveils Tablet-Like 

XO Computer 

at Below $100

Link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20091226115804_OLPC_Unveils_Tablet_Like_XO_Computer_at_Below_100.html

Of Course XbitLabs Says The Problem 

with this new Incantation 

is that it can't run Windows...

 

Is That Really a Curse or a Blessing?
 

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Linux and Apple Don't Need To Run Windows,

And They're Doing Just Fine Thank You...

(It's Actually, Their Biggest DRAW!)

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Wingman, Just Saying, You Know...

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Apple Creating the NEXT BIG THING with Intel???

"Light Peak" Stuff

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Apple Creating the NEXT BIG THING

with Intel???

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Check Out iPhone, iPod Schematic
with EXTERNAL DISPLAY...
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This Exclusive Post At Engadget, is giving us a
peek of what Apple is doing with Intel to bring
out The Next Big Thing...
Mark your Calendars and hang on.

This Could Be A Bumpy Ride.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/

TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/yaw6nny

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Wingman Peeking Around The Next Corner, as Always...

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MC2 TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/y8rcb4y

Why Not Make it Easier??
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Post 461: Wingman Tells ALL: How I Do My BLOG!

Wingman: How I Do My BLOG!

The BULK of MC2 Blogs are about the Icons Pictured ABOVE

I usually start by Checking Daily Rotation that has a list of the Top Ten
Stories from Over 300 TECH Sites.


You'll notice I have a Link to Daily Rotation on my Favorite MC2 Links on the Right Column.

((Just Added the Daily Rotation News Script on the Right Column too.))


Next I Check Engadget for Pictured New Gadgets that Look Interesting
to Me.

It's My Blog, Remember...




Next, if I have to go that far, I check out RefDesk, a Child-Safe Reference Desk Site

That I recommend to All School Age Students from

Grade School to College.

If I can't find anything worth blogging about from these sites, I fall back

on TV Science Shows like NOVA or magazine-format "News" Shows

like CBS Sunday Morning and 60 minutes.

And Lastly, I refer to my current Books of Interest, which I must admit

runs the Gamut of Topics.

Physics, Marketing, History, Science Fiction, and the occasional

Current Novels People are Talking About,

like an Oprah Pick.
(One in the Last Two Years is OK.)

The Pillars of the Earth.

And Finally, Movies and TV Shows (mostly on USA).

There You Go, my Secrets to My Blogging Ideas.

Wingman, Tells How He Does It.

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The BIG Apple Apology by Wingman...

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The BIG Apology by Wingman...
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Many, many Years ago I stated uncategorically : "Nobody needs 30,000 songs in their pocket. Not even Mozart."
I was, of course, berating the iPod and the $30,000 dollars that music would cost to Put In an iPod.

Today, after over a year Owner of the iPod Touch 2G, I feel compelled to state uncategorically :

"I Was Wrong!". And: "I apologized..."

The incredible device called the iPhone and in my case, the iPod Touch has "Changed my TUNE.".

I've never been a "FanBoy" for Apple. Especially since they've built their beautiful machine on top of BSD, not Linux. But even Nokia knows what's Really Under the Hood, even if Apple doesn't Say The Name: Linux.

The logic behind the cost-factor still applies, but the Gadget Store, and the Linux-Based iPhone Hack has turned the Tide. This is Not Your Grand-Dad's Newton...

This is Something Different. The Cross Platform Game Changer pundits have been giving "Lip-Service" to for oh-so-many years.

The Wonder of Wonders is Apple's Second Grand Slam in a Row. The First was of course, the iTunes Store. And the Second: The Gadget Store, and the Billion Plus Apps that changes your pocket computer into what-ever you want.

Brilliant.

Thank you Steve Jobs for okaying this Process.

Wingman, humbled by gadgetry again...

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August 6 1997 On This Day Microsoft Saved Apple.

The Day Microsoft Saved Apple.
August 6 1997

Macworld Boston 1997


The Day Fan Boys

Booed Bill and Steve

said "No, no no.".

And the World has said:

"i ,i , i " every since.

iPod, iTunes, iPhone

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I guess Bill is $orry now.

Story Link at: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/

But maybe Not, competition is

Good for Every One.

And Hindsight is Always

2020.

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From YouTube:
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MacWorld Boston 1997 -Full Version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI&eurl=http%

3A%2F%2Fmediacircus2.blogspot.com%

2F&feature=player_embedded

From 113 characters to 25 with

TinyUrl: http://tinyurl.com/lsrn82

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It's Good to see the Whole Thing
As a Reminder of how Far Apple
Has Come
From the Brink...
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Crazy Things being shown at Siggraph in New Orleans:

Like a

"Touchable Hologram".

Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23940/

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Wingman, Is Reading History and and Science Fiction like the books

Mark Twain by Ron Powers

and Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Get Ready for a Blacker than Black Friday!

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Get Ready for a Blacker than Black Friday!

Link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/12/apple_may_launch_most_aggressive_black_friday_sale_yet.html
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Bad "Economic Issues" is forcing many retailers to take matters into their own hands, and began Pre-Black Friday Sales last weekend. Walmart and K Mart had "Black Friday, Saturday and Sundays" with big cuts in Flat screen HD tvs, laptop computers and Playstation 2 and 3's special sales.

Even Apple is expecting rival PC vendors will be offering deep-cuts on the "REAL" Black Friday and Apple will counter with deeper-than-deep (read:"blacker than black:) cuts on a number of Mac models.

Let the Sales Begin...

Is there a way to keep track of these Black Friday Deals?

Glad you asked. Yes, indeed there is, at these Web Sites Dealing with the Up-Coming Black Friday Sales:
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http://bfads.net/
Some items listed under Newest Activity:
110 items to RadioShack
65 items to Sports Authority
53 items to Ace Hardware
30 items to Sam's Club
36 items to JCPenney
6 items to Staples
56 items to CVS Pharmacy
47 items to Rite Aid
58 items to Gander Mountain
8 items to Tommy Hilfiger
23 items to Dell Home
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http://www.blackfriday.info/
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

Even Google News Results for "Black Friday Sales". Remember to click reload to update the results.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=finding+black+friday+sales&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_group&resnum=4&ct=title
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Wingman.

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More Problems at nVIDIA

Just when things start to look good at nVIDIA,
another blast of Bad News to the Video Card Maker.

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Source:
http://www.engadget.com/
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Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective...
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According to ENGADGET:

"..it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected..."

That's not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only "previous-generation" chips were problematic --

This is Not Good for nVidia and maybe even Apple's switch to the nVidia Chipset for their "New" Macbooks.
(see my blog titled: Apple Switch Graphic Horses in Mid-Stream?)


Wingman

MacBook Rumor Mill Cranking UP...

On Monday, Apple finance chief Peter Oppenheimer, turned the machine on with:

The rumour mill has further been fuelled by Apple finance chief Peter Oppenheimer in the company's recent quarterly conference call, on Monday.

"We are working to develop new products that contains technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline," said trumpeted.

The source said the product should arrive before the end of October.

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-horizon

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That was followed by some pretty "Snappy Apple" Numbers on Wall Street:

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Good Apple Numbers
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During the third quarter, the company shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh computers,
11,011,000 iPods and sold 717,000 Iphone units.

According to Steve Jobs:

Apple "is busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months."

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/22/record-results-apple
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Macbook Touch ???
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An informer for Macdailynews has come out with a variety of claims about a new device.

These include talk of a Macbook-sized screen in Iphone-like glass, with fully-featured multi-touch on Mac OS X.

Apparently, he believes this is why the company bought P.A. Semi - and the device may include Immersion's haptic technology which may allow tactile feedback, among other new touch-screen features.

Similarly to the Iphone, the device is purported to contain GPS, a DVD-RW drive and an accelerometer. It will be App-Store compatible, yet able to run standard Mac applications.

Apparently, the same informer has spoken to Macdailynews previously concerning over products tip-bits and has got the information right.

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-horizon
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And another "KICK" of The Rumor Mill Machine
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Apple plans mystery "product transition" before September's end

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link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/21/apple_plans_mystery_product_transition_before_septembers_end.html
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Wingman, watching the Mill-Bits Fall...

Apple WAX

From:

Macbreak Weekly 91:
(Monocle Pete's Magic Yacht Wax) Podcast Filter:

http://www.twit.tv/mbw

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, Liana Lehua, Andy Ihnatko, Merlin Mann, and Alex Lindsay

3G baby got (a plastic) back, the iFund Whrrls, OS X 10.5.3 update, and more.

Possible New 3G iPhone Pictures

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/even-more-leaked-3g-iphone-photos-make-it-out/

Leopard Update: problems with Apple's gcal (online calendar program)

Made me update my calendar programs in Linux just-in-case
They both have a similar lineage.

These post have been rather fast and furious lately, and I apologize, but time constraints have been rather tight lately.
Other skuttlebutt gleaned from the above podcast (Do check it out, if you can) was the new lower price of Amazon's Kindle Book Reader (Now $360.00...down from $400.00). Still too high.

And maybe Apple might have a Multimedia/Book Reader is also in the rumor mills.

Tah tah.

BLOG: A Pocket Full of Miracles-MP3 Players

I purchased for My Wife for Valentine's Day an MP3 player.

The Creative 2GB Zen Stone Plus pictured here. About the size of a fat thumb. I installed 150 of her favorite songs and the audiobook "Pillars of the Earth". (40 plus hours of listening for the book).

Long time readers of my posts, on my many Blogs, have often heard me criticize the Apple iPod.

I have repeated said: "No One needs to carry around with him 15, 000 of his or her 'favorite' songs."

Okay, the Great Composers maybe, but for us ordinary music lovers that ability is simply overkill.

Especially at .99 cents each that would cost "roughly" 15,000 dollars! (The sound you hear is Apple smiling with lots of coin jingling in their pockets, all the way to the Bank).

On that pointy point of accounting I remain steadfast.

But recently a deluge of moderately priced mp3 players have hit the market that Apple created.

An iPod is really just an MP3 Player, that Apple has cleverly marketed as "A Simply Delicious Fanboy must have". But now low-price changes the "playing field" (pun intended).

And Add to this must-take-along mix, audio books by audible.com and a new form MEDIA player takes shape.

Remember the often forgotten tenet of the WWW is "Content is King".

And yes, the latest iPods are still doing nicely, an advertised Sale on Frys Friday AD boast a mind-boggling 160 GB (hard drive) of storage, enough to hold 40,000 songs. I dare say some of your least favorite songs might be able to sneak in there. It sells for $349.00 on sale!

The lower priced mp3 players, (read: Non-Apple and well under $100), of 1 to 8 GB of flash memory storage work quite nicely than you.

The 2 GB Creative Zen Stone player pictured above, holds over 200 mp3 songs and two audio books, with room for a third to be added shortly, (most likely the recent Best Seller: Einstein).

That really IS a pocketful of miracles.

The Good, The Better and the SCARY

Early in the year, Motley Fool said: Google was the Worst Stock to own in 2007.


What Fools!!!

In March, Google was selling for $440.00 a share, the lowest for the year, but still GOOD.

It's IPO, quite a few years ago, was around $80+ a share.

That might have been the report that Motley saw that precipitated that faulty advice.

However.....Just a few months later, the tide turned. And everyone was feeling peachy when it saw the good numbers for Apple and even Microsoft, last week.

Then the other Google Giant SHOE hit the Fan...

Today 10/31/2007, in after hours trading, Google hit 707.48 a share as of 6:48 PM ET.

During the day, most analysts were slack-jawed at the year-end closing performance of Google stock. But some hinted that it could cross the $900.00 mark before the end of the year.

How about that as being pretty Scary?