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A whole bunch of stories here.

One would think that the tech press would simply get over any Apple releases. But no. Given Apple's market capitalization that is not likely to happen anytime soon.

I rarely look for new, shiny stuffs as they appear. I do not want to be an alpha or beta tester for the latest consumer tech junk.

What I am intrigued by are Android L and Windows 9. Both promise to have real benefits rather than simply fancy new clothes.

Just to get a peek into the world of tech wonks this joker states that "Apple is a good monopoly." Seriously. Apple has no monopoly in any product line. There were smartphones before the whyPhone, and tablets before the whyPad. Apple's market share is shrinking in both of these categories as Android outsells the Apple products globally by roughly 10 to 1 in both categories and Android's uptake increases daily. Sure Apple is trying to break into the enterprise market with their partnership with IBM, but IBM's market share is shrinking as well. Google is quite nearly a monopoly. Google is throwing new gadgets out all the time. Android L looks to be killer. Apple has no monopoly in the USA, much less the rest of the planet. The other 6.7 billions of humans are what Google is playing to....betting against Google has not proven to be very smart. Android will be everywhere in five years. Everywhere.

On the ebola frontlines...

The US DoD is to blame for the current outbreak? Ermm, I do not trust any government, but this is just nonsense without extraordinary evidence. The claimant offers up Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone as evidence. West Africans are fearful enough about ebola without wholly unsubstantiated claims being cast about.

More ebola quick hits sans comment:

Ghana Cancels 2014 African Cashew Alliance Expo Over Ebola Concerns

Experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready next year: WHO

WHO advocates blood therapies in search of Ebola treatment

Fujifilm says French Ebola patient is taking its Avigan drug

Ebola is winning

Health worker claims world 'turned a blind eye' on Ebola

and finally.....

Susan Rice: Prepare to fight tomorrow's Ebola(Susan Rice is Obama's national security advisor)

Okay, one more just hit my RSS feed..

Computational model: Ebola could infect more than 1.4 million people by end of January 2015. This isn't especially new, but in case you may have missed it over the past few days..well, there it is.

I am off to toil

I may update later today.