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‘MUG Event Calendar’: Dr. Mac, Guy Kawasaki, more

‘MUG Event Calendar’: Dr. Mac, Guy Kawasaki, more

Posted by | May 9, 2011 | |

The month’s busiest week is coming to “The MUG Event Calendar. Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus is on the road this week, making three different user group appearances on his annual Mid-Atlantic MUG Tour, twice in Pennsylvania and once in New Jersey.

Guy Kawasaki will make an appearance at the May meeting of an Oregon group, and Gary Rozenzweig of MacMost will visit a Colorado group. Other topics on this week’s agenda include several iPad programs, eBay, digital photography, authoring iOS apps, what to do with old Macs, voice commands on the Mac, Google Groups, MobileMe, cloud computing and more.

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Greg’s Bite: Microsoft buys RIM? LOL

Greg’s Bite: Microsoft buys RIM? LOL

Posted by | May 5, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

Sometimes the synergy of two companies are so symmetrically fitting a merger or takeover is like a marriage made in heaven. Everything just fits like a glove.

Sometimes, such a business marriage is conceived in a far darker and hotter place. PC Magazine’s Peter Pachal appears to be having hallucinations or the blue screen of death happened on his PC, once too often. The URL for the story is: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384918,00.asp (this article is best read while eating corn flakes).

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Apple, others sued for pay fixing, ‘No Solicitation’ agreements

Apple, others sued for pay fixing, ‘No Solicitation’ agreements

Posted by | May 4, 2011 | , |

Another day, another lawsuit. Joseph R. Saveri of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, says Siddharth Hariharan, a former software engineer at Lucasfilm and founder and CEO of InEarth, today filed a class action lawsuit charging that several of the nation’s leading high-tech companies — including Apple — violated antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the pay of their employees and entering into “No Solicitation” agreements with each other.

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