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Now that the dust has settle for Apple's announcement of it's new tablet computer, the iPad, it has become clear that the iPad has its distractors. Of course, that was predictable. The Geeks off the world either love Apple or hate it. But some of the complaints have merit...

There are a number of featrues that this first iPad lacks. Michael Arrington compares the new iPad to a stone age tool on five features and concludes that the iPad has a touch screen - that that's about the only difference. Wired's Charlie Sorrel looks at ten features he thinks consumers will whine about. TechThinker has its own list of eight disappointments. From a computing point of view, the idea of not having an place to plug in an SD card or a USB drive would bother me, but I suppose there's always cloud storage. Not being able to multi-task or run multiple apps at once would require profound changes in my computing habits.

On the other hand, Ben Elowitz (cofounder & CEO of Wetpaint) thinks the iPad will kill Amazon's Kindle. Louis Gray also gives it a thumbs up.

So now, the big question... What will iPad version two look like?

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A Securities and Exchange Commission says that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to steadily sell off up to 10 million shares of Google stock over the next five years. At today's prices, that about five and a half billion dollars worth of stock.

Techcrunch brought the SEC filing to my attention.

Technically, the sale would mean that Page and Brin no long had a controlling interest in Google.

They would continue to be the largest shareholders, but would not be able to control the outcome of any shareholder vote as they do today. They, of course, could decide to stop selling just short of losing control. They also could probably find the other 2 percent of votes if they ever need it from CEO Eric Schmidt or a collection of other Google employees and loyal investors.

It will be interesting to see if the sale makes any real, practical difference in the way Google operates.

WIRED managed back on January 12th to put the Google-China blow up in a concise little nutshell.

Google has decided to stop censoring search results in China, after discovering that someone based in that country had attempted to hack into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists.

The incredible amount of buzz and hype since then has made it hard to ignore the story. Imagethief had one of the best early pieces on it. I especially like their list of things we don't know — like how Google weighs censorship, hacking, and its business problems in the overall scheme of this crisis; or how much (if at all) Google discusses this move with China before the announcement.

Is this whole thing really that big of an issue? Diane Meriigas thinks so - and has 10 reasons why the story matters. Among her reasons: what it does for Chinese search giant Baidu, and to Yahoo.

There are a few people who think Google is a hero because of this - standing up to the tyrant state of China. And there are distracters who think that China is backing away from a business lose and turning it into a public relationship win.

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I think a while ago I had a post about the World Bank`s recent ranking of the countries in respect to trade logistics and the situation in Africa. Well, here you can see the full ranking. The countries have been evaluated in criteria such as customs, infrastructure, international shipments, logistics competence, tracking and tracing, etc. As it is clear from the chart, Singapore now stands in first position. No wonder [...] Read More

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Inc. recently ran a piece on how it is now possible to move straight from Windows XP to Windows 7 - and avoid the nightrmare that is called Vista.

I have an XP PC and and XP laptop. About six months ago I got a new laptop through my work - loaded with Vista. Vista has some bugs. But the biggest issue was simpler. After years of relatively streamlined and linear upgrades, someone at Microsoft decided to diverge, become creative, and head off in new directions. Maybe they were high on something, I don't know. The result was that computers users had to relearn much of what they did - and learn to do it differently. By most accounts, Windows 7 steps back in line.

Moving from XP to Windows 7 isn't quite as easy as upgrading straight from Vista. But the Inc. piece gives you some insight into the task.