By David Sims
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The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music
is “Gimme Back My Dog” by Slobberbone:
Thanksgiving is First CoffeeSM’s
all-time favorite holiday, as it’s proven itself to be fairly impervious to
commercialization, and has retained its historical, religious, social and
gastronomical significance. It’s close as anything to a time when all Americans,
Christian, Muslim and Jew, black and white, rich and poor, conservative and
liberal, Cowboys and Redskins fans, can come together around a groaning board
and look each other in the eye and say “Hey, thanks.” Then try to grab the white meat before the
other guy gets it first.
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AOL’s latest instant
messaging client, AIM Triton is available live today. “It
text messages, launches phone calls via your broadband connection, enables
video along with all that VoIP and keeps track of other important messaging
info via SMS alerts,” according to a good early review on internetnews.
The biggest change for AOL subscribers is that it “integrates the usual text
messaging via IM with both the AOL and free AIM e-mail clients, provides SMS
mobile messaging and integrates voice and video chat sessions.”
Available at the AIM.com site, the new service is replacing all PC-based
versions of AIM, provided the end-user is running Windows 2000 or XP.
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Has HP,
like, officially changed their name from Hewlett-Packard, the way KFC did from Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Got a press release trumpeting how great HP’s server revenue
growth was in 2005, beating the pants off everyone else and all that, according
to third quarter 2005 figures released today by IDC, and careful scrutiny fails
to find the words “Hewlett” or “Packard” anywhere except way, way down at the
bottom where you get “© 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The
information contained herein is subject to change without notice. HP shall not
be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.”
You’d think someone in my line of work would be up on stuff
like this, wouldn’t you?
Anyway, whatever their eponym – boy that English degree comes in handy – HP was No. 1 in total worldwide revenue for
the three major operating systems of Windows, Linux and UNIX individually as
well as combined. “Together,” the press release declaims in stentorian tones, “these
three operating systems comprise more than 95 percent of all servers shipped
worldwide and 80 percent of all server revenue earned.”
HP was No. 1 in total UNIX server revenue worldwide, outpacing IBM and
Sun; No. 1 in total Linux revenue and
units shipped, held the top position in x86 Linux server revenue and regained
the top spot in x86 Linux server units shipped; No. 1 in Windows revenue and
units, growing faster than the market year-over-year in revenue and taking
market share from IBM and Dell – both of which experienced year-over-year
declines in revenue share.
HP – kicking butt and taking names.
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Rich Lowry
has a great “I’m thankful for” column, one that struck First CoffeeSM
was his mentioning the work the U.S. Coast
Guard did in New Orleans: “While the rest of us pointed fingers and
bemoaned all that divides us during Hurricane Katrina, the Coast Guard was
saving more than 20,000 people from the floodwaters. It was responsible for
what should have been some of the most enduring images from the hurricane:
rescuers and the rescued – black and white, young and old, male and female –
intertwined in one another’s arms as they ascended in harnesses toward
helicopters, and safety, overhead.”
But that didn’t fit the skewed script the mainstream media wanted
to push on the country, so instead we got bombarded with all those now-discredited
as complete fiction stories about uncontrolled mayhem in the Superdome, roving
gangs of criminals (many actually wearing “I Voted For Bush” t-shirts) and such
garbage.
No wonder the MSM’s now statistically one of the least
trusted institutions in America, with a confidence rating of about 22%, and the New
York Times is cutting hundreds of jobs and the Los Angeles Times’ circulation is plummeting: They simply can’t be
relied upon anymore to do anything other than dutifully transcribe left-wing
talking points. Looking for the truth in the MSM anymore is kind of like taking
the Jewish heritage tour of New Zealand.
First Coffee’SMs
thankful for the blogosphere.
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Nokia and Advanced Info Service Plc,
one of Thailand’s mobile phone service operators, have signed a deal worth over $55 million to expand
AIS’ GSM network in the Northern, Central and Southern regions of Thailand.
The expansion will improve network coverage and capacity and
enable AIS to boost service quality and offer innovative multimedia and
convergence services.
Under the agreement, Nokia is supplying radio network
expansion and Nokia Unified Core Network products, including IP Multimedia
Subsystem, 3GPP Release 4 MSC Server and Nokia Presence.
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First CoffeeSM’s
thankful for spending Turkey Day in Turkey with a few other expat Americans
and, in the tradition of the first Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, some foreign
guests. Kind of funny to think of “foreigners” here in Antalya where we’re the
foreigners.
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Larry Ellison has been ordered to pay $122
million to settle a suit brought by Oracle shareholders filed in 2001 over
the fact that he sold shares knowing the company would soon report an earnings
shortfall.
The deal calls for him to pay $100 million to charity – if
he pays Oracle shareholders he pays himself in the process – and $22 million in
legal fees.
Gee, that slashes his bank account from $17 billion to $16.88
billion.
First CoffeeSM’s thankful for the fact that
Americans overall contributed $1.7 billion to the Asian tsunami relief, $2.7
billion to Katrina relief and, yearly, without being told to do so by judges,
or ignorant, useless U.N. ticks named Jan
Egelund, contribute $200 billion to
charitable causes, a staggeringly generous sum.
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Here’s the biggest non-news item of the week: The Microsoft Xbox 360 is selling
well.
Right. Now clean up the coffee you spilled on your computer.
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Sistema, the largest private sector
consumer services company in Russia and the CIS, has announced the completion of the consolidation of its
fixed-line telecommunications operators under Comstar United TeleSystems.
Comstar UTS now owns majority stakes in Sistema’s fixed-line businesses,
including 99% of MTU-Inform, 100% of Telmos, 100% of MTU-Intel (including 100%
of Golden Line) and 55.62% of MGTS.
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First CoffeeSM’s thankful for hitting the 50,000 word mark last night
in the NaNoWriMo
month-long novel writing program. Thank you, Chris Baty.
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