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Techapalooza

Today CONNECT & Cox put on a special luncheon atop Diamond View Towers in the outfield of Petco Part. This event, affectionately known as Techapalooza is great opportunity to meet the people at COX and learn how a partnership with Cox can benefit your organization.

It was surprising to me to learn that less than 50% of COX’s revenue is now coming from their cable division. And that in addition to Internet access and phone service, the company is offering a wide variety local services (still not to sure about their Kudzu system though ;-).

But let me tell you, there’s a standup comedian in every COX executive, starting with the CEO, Bill Geppert. Very entertaining event and of course exceptional views from the top of the Diamond View Tower.

UCSD Entrepreneurship Competition

Yesterday UCSD Entrepreneurship Competition was kicked of with the most inpiratioanl interview of Qualcomm founder Irwin Javobs. Chris Kameir and Irwin Jacobs, UCSD October 1st 2008 The goal of the Entrepreneurship Competition is to foster community involvement and technological innovation by bringing multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and business-minded students together with local area entrepreneurs and professionals. And there is no better icon that would symbolize the success of this concept that Irwin Jacobs. Alhtough Dr, Jacob will turn 75 in two weeks he was more energetic than most 30 year olds I know. If you get a chance to hear him speak (about anything) go (I will). In the meantime I will follow his advice and buy a Kindle 😉

Google OS

Have you (we) been fooled into believing that Google released “just” a browser? Alhtough it seems like the initial deployment franzy came to a squicking hold, the blog world is still in uproar about Google’s latest release. But maybe we should start to look under the Chrome hood to see if Google’s browser is really more the operating system.

It may not be too obvious to the everyday user (although they probably did not download Chrome in the first place), but most developers probably noticed that the Task Manager inside the Developer menu not only lists each page you have opened and how much memory and processing time it uses but it also lets you end processes just like your Windows Task Manager or any other OS.

Does anybody remember Netscape … ? Just call it ‘Google OS’ already.

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Google Satelite?

There have been reports that Google launched a satelite over the weekend to gather high resolution images of the earth. Whereas the launch of the satelite can be confirmed, the involvement of Google is still in question, specfically as the website for the project does not list google as one of its partners.

LinkedIn Hacked

It seems that LinkedIn got hacked. The site is showing a permanent ‘Http/1.1 Service Unavailable’ message for the last hour or so.