Topics on businesses, good and bad.
The collective tech sphere (which has been holding its breath wondering what lawsuit-happy Apple was waiting for) can now breathe again. The article says that this “pretty much spells the end for Psystar.” He’s probably right, because it’s not likely Psystar can afford to defend itself… but if it can take this all the way …
If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …
Interesting Terms of Service on Google Gears… not only does it explicitly exclude open-source products from the usual disassembly prohibitions, but it enjoins you (if you develop code that uses it) to “protect the privacy and legal rights of those users” (section 5.5). Not the sort of thing you generally see in a software license, …
I’ve always liked Bruce Schneier, a very well-known security professional. Earlier this month, he tackled the thorny question of how You’ve Been Left Behind, a post-Rapture service for those who believe in that Christian concept, secures the information that you give them to ensure that it won’t be stolen or prematurely released. If you’re not …
A sad farewell to Windows XP. It wasn’t the greatest, but it was a lot better than the piece-of-excrement successor that Microsoft is trying to force on everyone right now.
“Pot, meet kettle.” 🙂
And again, life imitates art — in this case, the horse-racing game in the men’s bathroom in one of the Austin Powers movies, which was controlled by the “flow” of those standing at the urinals below it. Gotta love technology… and admire the business sense of the two guys who created it.
The people at Mozilla have come up with a neat idea for Firefox 3: they’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded program in a twenty-four hour period, on an as-yet-undecided day next month. To see a breakdown (by country) of how many people have pledged to do, or to pledge to …
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From the WFT? department… a company in Singapore is claiming that they own a patent for linking to other web pages by way of an image, and is trying to extort money from companies whose websites use that method (which is very common, and was enshrined in the HTML specifications well over a decade ago). …
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An interesting view of why Microsoft now says it’s going to add Open Document Format support to Office. I’m not sure I believe it though… Microsoft has a very long history of being less than truthful about why it’s doing things.