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Shaq Predicts Florida vs. LSU Game On Twitter

Shaquille O’Neal (@THE_REAL_SHAQ) is obviously an LSU fan.  Because on Saturday, October 3rd, not only was he excited about LSU beating Georgia, but he went on to predict, in Shaq fashion, the outcome of this coming weekend’s LSU vs. Florida game. Here’s what he said: “Fla can kiss dat undefeated record goodbye next weekend”

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Facebook Measures Happiness And Confirms That Monday’s Suck!

With the massive amounts of status updates conducted each day on Facebook, there is no shortage of data to tell whether people are feeling happy or sad. And over time, this data can show trends as to how the nation as a whole (the United States for example) is feeling emotionally. That’s exactly what Facebook […]

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Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Takes A Beating Over Past 10 Years

With the launch of Bing and the merger with Yahoo, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) had high hopes for gaining search engine market share! Unfortunately, after only 2 months on the web it’s starting to look like Bing has peaked.  From 247wallst.com:

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Android News Technology

Google Android Phone From Verizon – We Finally Have A Photo

I sent out my first post this morning around 5 AM about the breaking news of Verizon and Google having a conference call to discuss a partnership with Android – Google’s mobile phone operating system. Then later in the day, prior to the 10AM conference call, I did an update to the story that said […]

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Unemployed – Thanks To Twitter!

CNET has a great story about a waiter in Beverly Hills who was actually tweeting about his experiences with famous people whom he served. His name is Jon-Barrett Ingels, and his Twitter profile is @PapaBarrett Well, one day in walks Jane Adams – the star of “Hung” on HBO – into the restaurant that Ingels […]

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Google Local Business Ads Coming For Google Maps

Google claims that over 80% of all local searches for business are now done through Google’s search engine.  And these searches for local business are typically in close proximity to where the business is physically located. Google has just launched Local Listing Ads – a way for a local business to have to gain advertising […]

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Android Technology

*BREAKING* Google Android, Verizon To Launch 2 New Phones With Google Voice

I’ve been following this story all morning and wrote about the development here and here. To get you up to date, Google and Verizon had a scheduled conference call for 7AM PST – 10AM EST, where they were to discuss a possible deal to bring Google Android OS onto phones sold by Verizon. BREAKING NEWS […]