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Aaron Sorkin ("West Wing”, “A Few Good Men”, "The Social Network") has just been hired to write and direct the film adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple's Steve Jobs.

 Cisco may have sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley on Wednesday with its weak guidance, but tech investors should also note the much more positive tone struck by IBM on the same day.

This has been a particularly frenetic earnings season, and the interviews are coming thick and fast. Later today I will be speaking to Cisco CFO Frank Calderoni and BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp about their companies' respective quarterly results.

Do you have any questions for Calderoni and Beauchamp? If so, then email me at james.rogers@thestreet.com, or send a direct message to @jamesjrogers on Twitter.

By now, you've probably seen the huge zipper on Google's homepage when enter a search query.  If not, it's definitely worth looking at.  It's pretty interesting.

It might sound somewhat old-fashioned to some but it looks like high quality audio is starting to make a big comeback.

There is a growing number of people who prefer listening to music rather than what comes out of those tiny, downloadable, horrible sounding music files.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced that they are planning to release a series of guidelines meant to protect consumers when they're online.

In its preliminary report, issued back in December, 2010, the FTC hinted at new rules that would “balance the private interests of consumers with innovation that relies on consumer information to develop beneficial new products and services.”

Comcast's NBC Sports Group has announced a deal that makes Google's YouTube the official video-on-demand provider for the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics.

With this agreement, NBC will be the the “exclusive online destination” for all in-venue video.

For the first time, NBCOlympics.com is planning to stream all of this year's Olympics events live on the Internet.

I will be heading out of San Francisco on Thursday, taking the Caltrain down to sunny San Jose to visit Cisco, where I have some interesting interviews lined up.