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		<title>Out Of Control Satellite May Interrupt Cable Television</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/05/12/out-of-control-satellite-may-interrupt-cable-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out Of Control Satellite Threatens US TV Service &#8211; Space News &#8211; redOrbit. This is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to cable television. Only basic cable is included in my rent, and I have always been hesitant about upgrading, but, ironically, this is exactly the upgrade that I wanted, and I never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPad Carnage</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/02/02/ipad-carnage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new product announcements never make much sense at the time they are made. It takes a while for people to understand the ramifications of the technology being introduced and the shakedowns that will ensue. The iPad announcement may well have been the paradigmatic enigmatic announcement. The stock has tanked, and everyone is talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AOL Time Warner: The Stupidity of Greedy CEOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News  &#124;  Why AOL Time Warner failed to change the world More than ten years after a horribly ill-conceived and thoroughly fraudulent union between an old world entertainment company, Time-Warner, and new-age chimera, AOL, predictably failed, people are wasting ink trying to analyze why the venture failed in a feeble attempt to gloss over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Microsoft Sucks</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/09/12/why-microsoft-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing can possibly explain Microsoft&#8217;s total ineptitude in the consumer electronics market than the composition of its board. The only real techie is Bill Gates, who never really understood consumer electronics. Reed Hastings understands the efficiencies to be gained from digital delivery of movies, but nobody on this board knows has the background that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to End Corporate Cell Phone Monopolies</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/07/24/time-to-end-corporate-cell-phone-monopolies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Stuck Apologizing For AT&#38;T Yet Again With A $30 iTunes Credit Naturally, this pisses me off because it will ultimately hurt the bottom line of my Apple stock, and because it means that I will be stuck with the same lousy AT&#38;T service for some time. The local phone company has no authority to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising in a Houseboat</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/07/22/cruising-in-a-houseboat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amsterdam Tests Residential 1Gbps Fiber &#8211; While city muni-fiber operation delivers fiber to the house boat&#8230; &#8211; dslreports.com. On some level, it&#8217;s infuriating to know that houseboats in Amsterdam get better internet bandwidth than the most luxurious penthouse in Manhattan or San Francisco.]]></description>
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		<title>The Merits of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/06/the-merits-of-excellence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SGI, Once Mighty Graphics Giant, Gobbled Up For Pittance &#8211; Wolfe&#8217;s Den Blog &#8211; InformationWeek Considering the number of innovative, pioneering corporations that have fallen by the way side or disappeared in the rapidly evolving technology sector&#8211;names like Digital Equipment Company, Netscape Communications, and Sun Microsystems&#8211;one comes face to face with the fundamental question regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First in Capitalism, Last in Broadband</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/05/27/first-in-capitalism-last-in-broadband/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Technology &#124; Broadband World: Mapping the global picture Extolling the virtues of a &#8220;pure and unadulterated capitalism&#8221; has always been in vogue in the United States, and it has never changed the fact the country is lagging in many critical measures of quality of life, chief among them life expectancy and infant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On News, Knowledge and Information</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/04/02/on-news-knowledge-and-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Broadband Is Fine, Nothing To See Here &#8211; The New York Times methodically fixing all broadband issues.. &#8211; dslreports.com Where do you turn when you need objective assessment of the state of broadband connections in the US? Not the New York Times, apparently. Dslreports.com, by far the greatest resource in the US on evaluating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Rule of Consulting</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/30/first-rule-of-consulting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCain: Obama needs to consult on stimulus &#124; Politics &#124; Reuters The most important consideration one makes in seeking advice is finding a reliable source for the advice. Given that the entire economic crisis in the United States can be traced to Republican policies that de-regulated markets, that stiffled enforcement of white collar crime laws, [...]]]></description>
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