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Thanks to OSXDaily for this one - the ten biggest things Apple is worth more than:

A few years back you couldn't go anywhere without hearing someone say: 'Advanced digital CMOS is now a commodity - available in any foundry'.

It's jaw-dropping to see Intel produce a microprocessor which runs on solar power.

What a laugh to see social networking site MySpace sold for $35 million by Sky which had bought it for $580 million.

Ordinary people often have more sense than the elite and, hopefully, the Greeks will vote against the austerity package tomorrow. Today's 48 hour strike is a good start. Why should the Greeks accept 30 years of debt service to pay for the mistakes of bankers and the politicos who are supposed to regulate them?

That super-nice guy in the Apple store doesn't find you particularly sympathetic - he's just implementing 'APPLE' - an acronym for the steps which an Apple store employee should use in dealing with customers.

So now there's an EC-backed Human Brain Project, led by the Swiss research institute EPFL to bring together everything we know, and all we can learn, about the workings of brain molecules, cells and connections.

Sometimes  the technical community leave you aghast.

It's a bit surprising when the financial statements of companies become the subject of spin.

Poor old Goldman Sachs - there they were sitting around Wall Street innocently minding their own business - in this case pumping up an asset bubble around social networking sites to make a speculative killing on Facebook - and along comes some absolute rotter who pours merde all over their cunning plan.

There two professions you never see on the TV - engineers and investment bankers.

It's not just Facebook, now LinkedIn is looking to cash in on the inflated asset values for social networking sites which have been boosted by Goldman Sachs' investment in Facebook.

The Facebook bollox has started. A post last week - A Super-Scam - pointed up the unholy alliance between Goldman Sachs and Facebook to hype Facebook shares before their IPO.

That old Techo-Ponzi scheme phase change memory  (PCM) refuses to die. Dubbed Techno-Ponzi because it's a good way of getting an R&D budget or raising some VC money, PCM  has been under development for 40 years without achieving commercial viability.

Good old stock market traders - they're as excitable as girls sometimes. The NXP share price shot up from $12-ish to $18-ish on news of the NFC Android software stack developed with Google for use in NXP's NFC controller.

Not that old chestnut again - the fire/power outage/factory screw-up which interrupts memory supply. I thought we'd never hear it again.

The Kindle makes all that talk about convergence look like bollox.