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Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has offered up an apology for using the Kindle's remote wipe feature to delete illegal copies of 1984 and Animal Farm mistakenly sold to customers. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Apology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Post? What post?

I've just had to take a post down, which a lot of you have probably already read. My bad, my bad a lot. Without going into too much detail, just forget you ever saw that post for the time being. I'll deny it was ever there anyway. ...

Tags: Apology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected?

Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected?What apology? And what's with the crazy links?de Icaza's interview reads absolutely nothing like an apology. It does, however, read like a statement that Mono is still highly relevant because Microsoft's source code "release" is nothing more than hand waving and hot air. It benefits...

Tags: .NET, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, apology, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected?

Miguel de Icaza's interview with Paula Rooney reads like an apology, but as in all those weepy romantic comedies that will come out in the next months, it comes too late. Novell is like the unfaithful lover who comes to your door while still engaged and begs...

Tags: Google Inc., Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apology, Open Source Movement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-05

Apple's $100 million apology a financial wash

Apple's $100 million apology a financial washAnd MILLIONS in free advertisingThe story about the coupon and price drop (letting people know they can now get an iphone for $399) is in EVERY single major news source - TV, radio, newspaper, web.The value publicity free advertising of that is is almost...

Tags: Financial accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Operational accounting, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., apology, Microsoft Corp., financial

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Apple iPhone crisis: Succeeding after failing

Apple just released a bunch of new products, including iPods and an upgraded iPhone. But for many people, the new iPhone price cut was more significant than Apple's splashy product announcements. By significantly lowering the iPhone price so soon after its introduction, Apple alienated legions of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apology, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone

Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...

Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Additional Resources

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license

Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Is Windows 7 a Mac OS X wannabe? That explains why I like it

no, it looks like kde but doesn't have it's functionalityjust put kde 3.5. with transparent taskbar and crystal theme and you got what win7 looks like.and kde 3.5. was way older than vista and 7.So it IS about pride after all?To Apple fans it is always important who copied who....

Tags: Operating systems, TRANSPARENCY, Apple Mac OS, task bar, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Mac OS X mega patch covers 58 security vulnerabilities

Yikes, that sounds bad[i]The majority of the flaws could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of an unpatched system, meaning that this update carries an "extremely critical rating."[/i]Makes me glad I run an alternate OS.473MB?!?!?!How do dial up users get this update?There is a potential positive spin on...

Tags: Patches, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, patch management, Apple Inc., exploit, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

Yesterday, a "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your phone right now!" message popped up on the screens of a large number of automatically exploited Dutch iPhone users, demanding $4.95 for instructions on how to secure their iPhones and remove the message from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SSH, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-11-03

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?

Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...

Tags: NETWORKING, H1N1 flu, network, marketing, network congestion, flu, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Carper option in final Senate health bill

opt outdoes that mean a state can decide, whether or not, their citizens can get national health care?"Let the trolling begin in earnest."?I think you meant:"[i]Let those who disagree with me begin posting.[/i]"No......trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to get responses. You've even admitted you're doing that, because...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, U.S. Senate, health care, insurance, Carper, Lasik

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Apple ad swings at Windows 7: 'Trust me, this time it's going to be different'

Hilarious! Apple is getting quite bold these days, I think they smell bloodNT.Just like Snow Leopard was supposed to fix all that was wrong with LeopardBut it didn't. :(Poor Apple, that sound you hear of glass shattering is not the sound of Windows, it is the glass house in which...

Tags: Operating systems, Investment, advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Win7, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Failure as a springboard to success

A quick questionJono,How would characterize an apology that started out "If I have offended [you; anyone; etc]...". Do you think that type of wording would undermine it? I'm of the opinion that it weakens the apology and puts some of the responsibility on the persons you are apologizing...

Tags: springboard

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Lawmakers to FCC: Time for a closer look at Google Voice

Nothing alleged about it[i]the alleged rejection by Apple of the Google Voice app for the iPhone.[/i]Apple did reject the application, of this there is no doubt. Only after it was made public did Apple backpeddle and say that they are still reviewing it. The fact remains that Google submitted it...

Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Google Inc., closer look, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Verizon ad trashes AT&T's 3G coverage

However, JD Power tells us a slightly different storyAccording to their latest survey the iPhone is ranked top in customer satisfaction for both consumer and business users. In fact I was surprised at the size of the large margin the iPhone has with business users.I guess this means that if...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., phone, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T 3G coverage, AT&T 3G, advertisement, Apple Inc., 3G

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet

Back in May 2008 Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed an upcoming, larger, "version of the iPhone" based on Intel's Atom platform. His comments were later retracted by Intel corporate who claimed that Schwaderer’s comments were misinterpreted. In its carefully-worded apology, Intel implied that Atom wasn't suitable...

Tags: ARM, Apple Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Chip, Tablets, Notebooks, Smart Phones, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-05