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April 2007 Google NYC Speaker Series

For April, Luiz Barroso, Google Distinguished Engineer, will talk about "Watts, Faults, and Other Fascinating Dirty Words Computer Architects Can No Longer Afford to Ignore".

April 5, at 6:30pm.

Palm seems closer to linkup with Motorola

The WSJ is noting the snapping up of call options on Palm's stock, "Palm Calls Rise on Rumors of Linkup with Motorola," echoing the rumors floated by CNBC that Palm will acquired by Motorola. It's expected that this will be announced today, before they issue their quarterly earnings report due after the close of trading, today.

It'd be nice to search "The" book about search

I'm listening to the Audible.com version of John Battelle's "The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture" (Unabridged).

There's a section where John makes a point about how preventing deep linking for bloggers keeps valuable resources such as the online versions of the Wall Street Journal and The Economist off his radar screen.

Now, how do I search this audio book. I don't even have a table of contents to consult? And, what I really need is a digital version that I can highlight, bookmark, and annotate. AFAIK, there is no version available that will allow this.

I did go to Amazon.com, and was able to search his book with the search term "Wall Street Journal." I'm not able to copy the text, but you can read the passage where he makes the point that these august pubs are not linkable. It looks like you have access to the full text of the book. You can buy certain books that you can read online via AmazonOnlineReader which allows you to highlight, bookmark, annotate, tag, and copy & paste into another document, but, Battelle's book is not one of them.

Is Palm the right choice for Motorola?

Tomorrow is supposed to the day of reckoning for the bid to takeover Palm, with a number of private equity firms as well as Nokia and Motorola making bids. The latest from CNBC cites a Palm shareholder as suggesting that it's Motorola that will win the bid.

Om says it makes the most sense for Motorola to takeover this company.

He's right. It has the won general IT-department approval for enterprise support, which complements Motoral's purchase of the push-email company Good, whose service I hear works very well on the Treo. The Treo also has implemented Windows Mobile better than most smartphones. It has a fan base and plenty of word of mouth cred to keep the brand going.