In order to meet increasing production demands, Samsung is seeking $1 billion in bonds to finance an expansion to their Texas facility that creates processors for the Apple iPhone and iPad.
Michael Stanclift
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- Forum Name:
- Marshalus
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- Kansas City
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- 15 July 2001
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Biography
Virtually benevolent, heavily caffeinated. Michael is an data center consultant and professional geek. He's a member of the VMware vExpert and Cisco Champion influencer programs, a VMware Certified Advanced Professional, EMC Certified Implementation Engineer, Cisco Certified Networking Associate and Cisco Datacenter Specialist.
Thanks to a grant to his middle school from Microsoft, he has been a legitimate system administrator from the time he was in the 13. While in high school he was inspired to become a journalist by his newspaper advisor, and later studied journalism at Baker University. Unsure of exactly where the profession of journalism would go in the future, and if it could pay the bills, he left school to peruse a career in information technology. Although his IT career more than pays the bills, his love of writing, reporting and analysis has never died.
From 2002 to 2009 he was a full time senior staffer at Neowin serving in nearly every capacity and position on the site over the 7 year period. Originally hired after responding to a post by Neobond for gaming news reporters, he went on to later serve as one of the original Supervisors, and eventually as the first Managing Editor where he setup the formatting, staffing, policies and procedures that have established Neowin as a technology blogging powerhouse. He retired from the site in mid-2009 to peruse other interests. In late 2011 he returned is a part time news contributor.
He lives in Kansas City with his wife, two sons and dog.
The demo of Nokia's Tango video chat application rolled into their release of Windows Phone 7 contains the camera graphics used to flip from the front to back camera in Apple's iOS.
Backupify is a freemium cloud service that allows people to archive their Gmail and other Google data onto Amazon's S3 service. Neowin takes a quick look at this service and its uses.
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GoDaddy is officially off the list of supporters for the Stop Online Piracy Act. But will this change do anything to stop the flood of people who are boycotting the provider for their initial support?
Domain registrar Namecheap has accused GoDaddy of attempting to thwart the transfer of domains, in violation of ICANN rules. GoDaddy currently faces an Internet boycott for it's support of SOPA.
SOPA author Lamar Smith has released a list of his supporters. While they're mostly media companies, law firms and publishing companies, there are a few interesting exceptions.
Google Android chief Andy Rubin announced on Twitter and Google+ that Android has supposed 700,000 daily activations, doubling their 300,000 mark that they reached this time last year.
After RIAA was caught downloading copyrighted material from their own IP block, they've come up with an explanation that seems to mirror what defendants they sue commonly use. It wasn't really them.
Apple is set to acquire Israeli NAND flash design firm Anobit for an estimated $500 million dollars, according to a report by Reuters. Apple also plans to invest in a new R&D facility in Israel.
T-Mobile will gain AWS spectrum in 128 cities and a seven year nationwide UMTS roaming agreement, which will allow the provider to expand coverage, and make it more attractive to a future buyer.
The failure of the planned AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile has Kansas City based competitor Sprint smiling. Sprint had previously sued to stop the merger, saying it would crush competition in the market.
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Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee, have asked the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into Google's business practices and how their search results highlight their other web properties.