Apple Tips IBM's Apple Cart; Britain Does Same to EU Charter
Major shifts in the computer world are shaking the blogosphere, now that Apple is dropping IBM as its chip supplier and moving to Intel, according to CNET news. Sotto blog calls it "gobsmackingly unexpected news," Daring Fireball speculates about the impact and reasons, and Microsoft's Robert Scoble confirms the switch.
Two recent blows by Dutch and French voters to hopes of a unified Europe and single currency brought Tony Blair back into the limelight today, now that he's given up on the EU mission for now and is focusing on Africa instead. A Fistful of Euros blog discusses the Brits' bailing out of EU charter idea.
Just curious: since much of the EU discussion centers around currency, how do three of the major currencies stack up? BlogPulse takes a visual look:
Leaving Iraq...Today's No. 11 link is a Washington Post discussion of theory vs. reality in the war in Iraq, while Rod Nordland, Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief for the last two years, gives a pessimistically honest assessment of what's been lost...and gained....in the ongoing conflict. When the world's most powerful army can't protect a two-mile stretch of highway from downtown Baghdad to the the airport, or collect its own garbage, how is "progress" for Iraq ever to be defined, he wonders?
Elsewhere in politics, Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean is making friends but not his fund-raising goals, according to reports. And Google is testing Sitemaps to help sites improve their coverage in Google's index.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: A look at the world's hot spots....
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 6, 2005 11:23 AM
