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When Google buys a company, everyone scratches their head and asks, why?

Bloggers immediately go into overdrive as they post speculations about what Google is up to, or they rant about the stupid decision on Google’s part in buying a company that has nothing to do with their services.

Everyone eventually forgets about the whole matter until months or years go by and Google surprises the world with a new service either changes the Internet forever, or nearly ruins a service that is offered by a competitor.

And then there are the Google wannabes. eBay leads the pack. Read the rest of this entry →

This article from the Register contains a lot of jargon and techno-babble. In our reading between the lines, we interpret this article to mean that Microsoft is one step closer to creating their own version of MS Linux.

We (namely, Adam Cochran, the guy who does all the work at talkingDigital) have predicted that Microsoft’s next major overhaul of Windows (not Windows 7, 8 or 9 – but total rewrite of the OS) will be their own brand of Linux.

Every step Microsoft takes acknowledging Linux, the closer they come to accepting it. I hope they name it something cool like MSLinux, or Open Windows.

Here’s the lengthy article from the Register – we warned you about the technogobledygook.

Microsoft set for open source outpouring? • The Register.

Big Secrets

In about 1985, I checked out a book called Big Secrets by William Poundstone. Actually I can’t remember if that was the book or one of his sequels, but in that book was a list of how to guess Social Security numbers.

Based on that list, I have been telling people for years that Social Security numbers were based on a simple system based on birth date and location. I have been challenged on this several times. Most often, people would tell me that if it were that simple, everyone would know.

Last week all the big tech news sites broke the “news” that Social Security numbers were based on a simple system of birth dates and location.

I felt smarter, but I wish that talkingdigital.org would have broke the news first.

Social Security Numbers Are Easy to Guess — Fox 2009 (706): 1 — ScienceNOW.