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		<title>My Apple iPad experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPad Experience Over the past week I have had the opportunity to use my Apple iPad extensively. The experience has been amazing with one exception the lack of multitasking beyond Apple’s core applications (* Note as of Thursday the lack of multitasking now has a resolution coming this fall as part of iPhone OS4). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=417&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the dawn of Ubiquitous Computing, aka Cloud Computing era</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 22nd 1984 &#8211; Apple Computer launched the Macintosh&#8230; Introducing the world to distributed graphical desktop computing. &#8230;.Fast forward 26 years later through the roller coaster ride of technology&#8230;. April 3rd 2010 &#8211; The Apple iPad arrives to the public and Apple Inc. introduces us to the dawn of Ubiquitous Internet Computing, or what may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=399&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generational Effect!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 03:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see what the generational effect will be in 5 to 10 years as a younger generation who have never known life without a computer enter the work force and start to shape and influence the technologies utilized in the workforce. Based on this photo I would suspect that Apple will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=386&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The AIM bot &#8220;TheGreatHatsby&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for many months now I have been receiving IM&#8217;s from random AIM accounts all ending with COHO. The IM&#8217;s come in usually with some sort of comment like hello or how are you. Many times I ignore them but recently I wanted to know what was initiating these messages. After some reseach I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=370&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hat&#8217;s off to the flight crew on flight 1549</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surveillance cameras capture flight 1549 crash landing into the Hudson River. The pilot Chesley B. &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger, III was the last person to leave US Airways Flight 1549 — a true captain, he swept the center aisle twice to ensure no one else was still on board. The moral here is that preparing is key, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=365&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disruptive Innovation: Never satisfied or excessive attention to detail?</title>
		<link>http://rgates.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/disruptive-innovation-never-satisfied-or-excessive-attention-to-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have been writing a fair amount of blog posts about Apple and Steve Jobs recently and so as I started to think about why. As I looked at what was getting me jazzed I realized we are seeing some disruptive innovation continuing to come from Apple in an area I was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=319&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacWorld 2009 Predictions</title>
		<link>http://rgates.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/macworld-2009-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Saturday everyone, Looking forward to 2009. To start off the new year we have CES and MacWorld kicking off this week. Even with the recent announcements that this will be the last MacWorld Apple attends Macworld is still expected to attract faithful despite Steve Jobs&#8217; absence. What I find interesting is that the rumor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=269&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disruptive Innovations &#8211; The end of retail as you know it.</title>
		<link>http://rgates.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/disruptive-innovations-the-end-of-retail-as-you-know-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rgates.wordpress.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following posts titled &#8220;Disruptive Innovations&#8221; will be a series of posts throughout 2009 related to areas where I see disruptive events that may alter a marketplace. Disruptive technologies are technological innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market place does not expect. Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=118&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Business Sayings</title>
		<link>http://rgates.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/worst-business-sayings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rgates.wordpress.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading some business articles and stumbled across the following article at Telegraph.co.uk. I have seen some of these sayings used way to often. I can recall a meeting many years ago where I would bet each one of the 20 was used during that meeting. Let&#8217;s just say that company is no longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=127&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One idea to improve fuel economy in US Cars</title>
		<link>http://rgates.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/one-idea-to-improve-fuel-economy-in-us-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have for many years driven an Audi. I was turned on to Audi for a few reasons one of which is the all time All-Wheel-Drive which provides for amazing handling in most road conditions (Let&#8217;s face it nothing will save you in ice). One of the things that I have noticed over the years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rgates.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4339119&amp;post=116&amp;subd=rgates&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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