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- Apple nukes Psystar
- Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-15
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...
- Dangerous generalisationsNEWCASTLE UK - While I might agree with your argument in the special case of WSJ your logic breaks down for newspapers in general. The WSJ is a broadsheet for a very small sector,the Financial World, as opposed to The Times or The SUN where the aim is the...
- Tags: Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post Co., Google Inc., music
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
- Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again
- Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
- paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market
- Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- 'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case
- Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- How important is 1:1 to literacy?
- I think that writing with pencil and paper is over rated. I almost never write anything with a pencil anymore. The newer generations will write even less. Better that they learn to write with modern tools. And, what better way than to give each one a laptop.Tell that to Neal...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Smoking gun in Viacom, YouTube case?
- Given the size of Google.....It will be interesting to see exactly who these "employees" and "managers" are and if they were in a position to "expeditiously act."Let's say it was the CEO's secretary, on her own, who did the uploading - does that make Google non-compliant?It seems Viacom is arguing...
- Tags: E-mail, Viacom Inc., Smoking Gun, YouTube Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- I for one welcome no overlords
- GPLed software is not legally free.Only software distributed with no license at all is legally free. The GPL is admirably, artfully, and life-givingly crafted to compel specific downstream-of-distribution behaviors through legal encumbrance. Legally encumbered software is not legally free software. Period.We will know that the free software movement--where "GPLed" is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital rights management (DRM), OPEN SOURCE, Free Open-Source Software, GPLed software, Stallman, software, F/OSS, FLOSS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Court likely to cut damages in MSFT patent infringement case
- M$ must pay the pepperstealing from small competitors should not be allowed.small correctionits Piper. But you were close.Didn't read the patent?? WTFFrom what I understand and as part of the facts of the case, MS received a a copy of i4i's product for evaluation and was offered a license to...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., I4i
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- i4i vs. Microsoft appeal heard; Trash talk ensues
- i Just hope taht MS will have it in the jaw big time For once a little guy could give the knock-out to MS would be a joy ....Would be so niceWould love to see this one almost bankrupt Microsoft.Would love it even more if the next one wipes them...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Custom XML, Microsoft Corp., I4i
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules
- How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
- Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data
- Minor nitpick..but VA is a Commonwealth...NTNTI am not a fan of people who claim to be injured that are not.I am not saying she is lieing or they are being overly burdensome with proof requirements. I think if they just spent the dough to watch her at her house,...
- Tags: Facebook, privacy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is
- Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, mouth, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
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