January 27, 2012

New Siri Patent Paves Way For Apple Stock To Run To $1,000

On October 12, 2011, I started a series on Forbes titled ‘œFuture of Apple.’ The first article in the series was ‘˜Tim Cook’s Leadership Determines Whether Apple Hits $100 or $1,000 Next‘.

Now I have come across Apple’s plan to become a $1,000 stock. Obviously, the plan is secret and Apple did not give me access to it. I was able to connect the dots from the gobbledygook contained in an Apple document. The document is United States Patent Application 20120016678. The document is purported to be a simple patent application for Siri. On the surface the document is benign as shown by the abstract reproduced below:

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions.

… Please click here or the title below to read more.

January 27, 2012

Be Prepared To Sell Your Soul If You Use Google

Yes, I admit I use Google (GOOG) products. Much has recently been written about the new privacy policy from Google. The discussion in media did not bother me as I thought I would easily deal with privacy issues. Then I, too, received my Dear Google User email.

The email starts out by claiming it is about privacy. The email itself is benign, however buried in the links is a bomb. Now Google has made it mandatory for you to sell your soul to Google if you want to use its products.

I am not referring to soul in the religious sense but subscribing to the contemporary definition popular in the scientific community.… Please click here or the title below to read more.

January 27, 2012