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Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us Takes Amnesty Road Show to Boston

Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us Takes Amnesty Road Show to Boston

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group, formed to lobby for amnesty legislation, will host an event in Boston on Tuesday, presumably to discuss with policymakers the need for more foreign workers in the high-tech industry.  The “The Future of Talent”

Raiders of the Lost Crappy Videogame

Strange to think of videogame cartridges turning up as archaeology, but a legend of the gaming world was just confirmed by a documentary crew working on a series to be broadcast over Microsoft’s Xbox network next year.   Microsoft is

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Yahoo/Microsoft  Enter Streaming TV Biz Everybody knows television as we know it is as dead, and this includes evil bundled cable television. Time for smart players to get in on the ground floor of Streaming while there still is one.

Alice Linahan: Texans Must Stand Up to Common Core

Alice Linahan: Texans Must Stand Up to Common Core

Speaking before the Patriots Rally for Freedom event held in March in Martindale, Texas, Alice Linahan, a self-described “Ticked-Off Mom” and co-founder of the Women on the Wall organization discussed how liberals in education are involved in “dumbing down our

Senator: Caterpillar Avoided Billions in Taxes

Senator: Caterpillar Avoided Billions in Taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. has used an aggressive tax strategy to shift profits overseas in order to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes, according to a new investigative report by a key Senate Democrat. Caterpillar has avoided

ObamaCare Launch Disaster: Send in the Lawyers!

ObamaCare Launch Disaster: Send in the Lawyers!

The ObamaCare launch disaster wasn’t all about the bumblers in the Obama Administration scarfing down $600 million and farting out a pile of 404 errors.  The state exchanges had a lot of trouble, too.  The worst ones are still abject

Windows XP Support is Ending: What You Should Do

Windows XP Support is Ending: What You Should Do

It’s hard to believe but after two years of warnings, 400million of you still run Windows XP on your computer. And on April 8th Microsoft is ending support. XP is finished – as in NO MORE SECURITY UPDATES for XP.

Texas 'Patriots for Freedom' Rally Draws Hundreds

Texas 'Patriots for Freedom' Rally Draws Hundreds

MARTINDALE, TEXAS–Hundreds of Texas patriots streamed in throughout the day to hear a solid line-up of conservative speakers at the “Patriots Rally for Freedom” event held near San Marcos on Saturday.   Event organizer Linda Buckmaster said, “People streamed in

Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama Administration vs. Truth

Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama Administration vs. Truth

It’s not just truth that is elusive for Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama Administration when it comes to Obamacare, it is reality that is more elusive.  In an interview with NBC News on September 30, 2013 HHS Secretary  Kathleen Sebelius said: “I think

Will Washington Take Down Apple–And Why?

Will Washington Take Down Apple–And Why?

The U.S. Department of Justice has not only successfully sued Apple for arguably non-existent anti-trust violations in the e-book market. It has even demanded – and gotten – a court-appointed “monitor” placed inside the company to supervise the company’s pricing

Australian TV Star Charlotte Dawson Hangs Self

Australian TV Star Charlotte Dawson Hangs Self

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47. Famed for TV shows such as “Australia’s Next Top Model,” the New

World View: Pakistan Asked to Send 30,000 Troops to Saudi Arabia

World View: Pakistan Asked to Send 30,000 Troops to Saudi Arabia

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) guarded by Microsoft Kinect game software Pakistan asked to send 30,000 troops to Saudi Arabia Iran calls al-Qaeda the ‘the Saudi-US lovechild of terrorism’ Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) guarded by

Gates steps down as Microsoft chairman, new CEO named

Microsoft said Tuesday that founder Bill Gates was stepping down as chairman to become a technology adviser to the tech giant as Indian-born Satya Nadella was named chief executive officer. Gates “will devote more time to the company” in his

Tech Firms Release Details on NSA Snooping Requests

On Monday, the nation’s largest tech companies began releasing data on the NSA’s requests for customer information.  The data shows that the government requested information on thousands of Americans.  Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tumbler were allowed to reveal