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- Snow Leopard: Why students shouldn't care less
- NonZealot, 1You've just gone up a notch in my books. Good comment!RE: Snow Leopard: Why students shouldn't care lessIt's obvious that you are happy with that old code clunker Windows that is held together with string and chewing gum so stick with it and have a good day.Apple digs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Snow Leopard, driver upgrade, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all
- The UK's High Court of Justice has ruled that Michael Arrington and Interserve Inc libeled Sam Sethi (see above.) The original plaint claimed that Arrington/Interserve engaged in a: "...sustained campaign of character assassination against the Claimant alleging fraud; bank forgery and other crimes;...
- Tags: U.K., Sam Sethi, Arrington/Interserve, TVs, Blogging, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extradition
- Gary McKinnon, the Briton who allegedly hacked into 97 NASA and Defense Department computers, has lost even more pleas to avoid extradition to the U.S., Wired reports. Despite McKinnon's arguments that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and could be at risk for psychosis, the judge ruled there was...
- Tags: U.S., U.S. Supreme Court, Britain, McKinnon, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- DOJ confirms Google Books investigation
- Is the Justice Department actually investigating the Google Books deal? Yes, the department confirmed to the federal judge reviewing the class action settlement. It is looking into whether the deal violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, The New York Times reports. In a letter to the judge,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Appeals filed in The Pirate Bay case
- Pirate Bay defendant Peter Sunde's lawyer says he will appeal his client's conviction based on Judge Tomas Norstöm's undisclosed ties to the copyright industry, News.com reports. Attorney Peter Althin also says that Sunde has no liability for the alleged wrongdoing of The Pirate Bay, since he was...
- Tags: Trial, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association
- The Pirate Bay may have grounds for a retrial. It turns out that the judge in the case, Tomas Norstrom, might have a slight conflict of interest. He's a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection...
- Tags: Judge, Peer To Peer (P2P), Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Internet, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Bullish Cross: Apple is an undervalued stock prize
- Bullish Cross: Apple is an undervalued stock prizeuh... math skillz.8.23% of the internet using market has any mac.5.80 have intel2.43 have ppcit ain't half :Pheck its less than a third(29.5%)What absolute garbage...'objective' view?What absolute garbage, the only company which is “radically undervalued [company] in the tech sector on an objective...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Much More Important, Apple Inc., stock, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter.....All this does is re-enforces that accountability for ones actions are almost non-existent and will only serve to encourage other miscreants to follow in this punks steps.As for the level of knowledge in the law sector... you seem about...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, cybercrime fighter, Ringleader, cybercrime group, job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web
- It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'
- SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is a copy of Unix'there a few people that are out of realitymac bride is one ballmer is also a other one keep spinning idiot spinning .......They aren't dead yet? ]:)The sad thing is......I strongly suspect that he really believes it.Words right outta...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., LINUX IS, SCO Chief
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign II
- Following yesterday's post on the management changes at SAP and the pending departure of Peter Zencke, I got a call from SAP. Would I be available to discuss the issue with Peter ASAP? Here's some highlights from the conversation: As reported, Zencke is retiring from the...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it
- When Jason Perlow reported on last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, he sought to compliment the company by giving CEO Steve Ballmer a Gorbachev-like birthmark right. But Gorbachev was a Communist. He wasn't elected. He was the product of a dictatorial society which was rotting from the inside,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Baldness, Standards System, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Why metered Internet is a really bad idea
- The above image from Lauren Weinstein's blog shows why metered Internet is a really bad idea and obnoxious. It shows Canadian ISP Rogers Internet altering web pages to warn you when you go over 75% of your 75GB cap. I checked on the Rogers website for...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Plan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service
- Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling. The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Problem, Internet Service Provider, DOCSIS, Internet Service, ACL, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Where is the new money in open source for 2008?
- The end-of-year predictions for open source are already starting to trickle in and one theme emerges clearly. The search is on for new money. Raven Zachary of The 451 Group expects that money to come from the usual suspects -- enterprise vendors. ...
- Tags: TechDirt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07
- D-Wave demonstrates latest quantum computer prototype at SC07Other researchers aren't convinced...It's good to see there was someone from ZDNet at the demo - I've been watching D-Wave from the UK for a while, and put something up earlier in the week, based on the publicity, and the reactions of the...
- Tags: D-Wave, quantum computer, patent
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedent
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedentDownloading?You're doing the same thing the RIAA is doing when you say that "the downloading and sharing of copyrighted material is illegal." Actually, the sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, the downloading is not. Obviously the RIAA would like to blur this distinction...
- Tags: Digital media, court case, RIAA, copyrighted data, Copyright-Infringement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- More on Linux vs Windows
- Last week's discussions on using Linux to catch Peter Principled bosses between rocks and hard places included a comment from ARyKaXaN in which he points out that Wintel's majority market position makes it the standard against which most people judge other products and then concludes that as long "as...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, GUI, Unix, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
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