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- When bandwidth is free
- If you haven't heard this already it bears repeating. (Picture from the University of Rochester.) Internet bandwidth is essential infrastructure. Like freeway lanes, like sea and airports, the quality and price of your Internet bandwidth determines how much it costs to do intellectual business...
- Blog posts 2008-12-25
- Will one company control the cloud?
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives question whether a few global companies will control all of cloud computing with a single set of standards, or if trust and the desire for data portability will mean many small clouds. Speakers include Barry Lynn of 3tera and Vance...
- Videos 2008-09-08
- I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wireless
- Google has now launched a campaign called FreeTheAirwaves aimed at making the "white space" between auctioned channels unlicensed. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
- In their paper Money Ruins Everything, Australian law professor Dan Hunter and economist John Quiggin right argue that open source and Internet creativity mandate changes in copyright law, which now favor industries whose costs have disappeared. "If copyright industries were, as once was the case, the only path for content...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Time to make a competitive Internet a priority
- The biggest accomplishment of open source in this decade has been to restore competition to the software market. High barriers to entry were allowing Microsoft and Oracle to expand their monopolies before open source helped companies both new and old make them work for it. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Monopoly HFS+ Patch 1.0.4 (Mac)
- Monopoly normally scans the mounted disks to find its CD, but if it sees an non-HFS disk, it stops the scan. This patch simply removes the HFS check from the software.
- Software downloads 1998-03-29
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- Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
- Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium3 Full copies or 3 Upgrade copies?The hard thing about comparing OS X with Windows is that you can only compare the Windows Upgrade version to the OS X in the retail chain because Windows Full, unlike OS X or Windows...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Why Windows 7 should be free
- Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Micro-USB to be universal EU phone charger
- Micro-USB to be universal EU phone chargerthe first thing the EU got rightas compared to the shambolic case with IE8 in windows 7RE: Micro-USB to be universal EU phone chargerYes.Probably the single most influential act that Obama could take is to require, as CIC of the Armed Forces, standard batteries...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- The case of the missing Sun refugees
- The case of the missing Sun refugeesMurph's rose colored glassesEvery IT vendor out there is on the "green" energy kick - and there are many thin client providers around too. If Sun survives, it will still have stiff competition anyway you look at it. This new client virtualization stuff goes...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-27
- Is the world now an open source society?
- Is the world now an open source society?The world of computing started as open sourceClosed source only came around when companies started earning money and wanted to guard secrets. Of course profit is what drives capitalism but there are places where open source is of a greater benefit to...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression
- The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?Can't blame Microsoft for doing what the EC wanted. ntntRE: Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?And this is the impact of the supposedly "consumer protecting" EC. Way to go EC, you just forced us to buy...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G S
- Apple makes big bucks profit per iPhone 3G SYou forgot a componentApple Logo = $421.04Medialets Sunspider Tests: iPhone 3GS 3x faster than Pre, 5x faster than G1In Medialets controlled tests on Javascript execution using Sunspider test suit provided by Webkit it found that the iPhone 3GS was significantly faster than...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- AV-Test calls Microsoft Security Essentials "very good"
- AV-Test calls Microsoft Security Essentials "very good"Wow...Not bad: 3200 and all detected with 0 false positives. Can't complain about that.I seriously think that MS should be allowed to ship MSE with every copy of Windows. We can argue about monopoly related issues when it comes to other non-essential functionality...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Microsoft unveils 'screaming deals' for Windows 7
- Microsoft unveils 'screaming deals' for Windows 7add at least 60% if you are outside the US! ntnt @pico_D: It cost that much to remove the browser? :) nt:)(Meant to be a reply to message, not user)RE: Microsoft unveils 'screaming deals' for Windows 7This isn't a deal for the versions of...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- iPhone 3G S: most extortionate iPhone yet?
- Zack Whittaker is currently knee-deep in paperwork, so covering for today is his good friend, Elliot Harrison, so don't send death threats regarding this post to the usual address. News has been tearing around all over the place about the new iPhone 3GS and after commenting on...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Counting down to Microsoft's Windows 7 retail-price unveiling
- Counting down to Microsoft's Windows 7 retail-price unveilingNot likely to change my mind about MS...I'm quite certain their pricing for their various crippled Win 7 OS versions will still be a huge rip off compared to the "one OS for one reasonable price" pricing structure of Apple's OS X. So,...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
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