What's New is Old

Mark and Wes at the Ohgane Korean BBQ in Oakland, CA .Sites of Interest:Amazon CEO apologizes for removing George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm digital books from Kindle machines that had already purchased them.History of Amazon Acquisitions and Investments, including Zappos.com for $920 million.An old article about the history of Novell Netware, showing its importance at the time.iPhone factory worker committed suicide (or was pushed?) after being interrogated (tortured?) about a missing prototype.Plastic Logic will ship an ebook reader using AT&T cellular data service.New version of Palm Pre webOS lets it sync with iTunes again, and the legal fight begins.A Blackberry firmware update offered by UAE mobile carrier Etisalat was designed to spy on users.Mark thinks this and this are a lot worse than a country spying on Blackberries.CEO of AT&T said iPhone will not always be exclusive with them.Google maps had the moon for some time, and now the Google Earth program can be used to view the moon.Top 20 s