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- News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- 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,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran
- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...
- Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- China demands new PCs carry spyware
- There comes a time when despite the allure of the market, Western industry should band together and turn its back on China. A time when the computer and Internet industry realizes that the censorship-and-repression tax the government is intent on levying is too high a price...
- Tags: Software, China, PC, Spyware, Computer, Tools & Techniques, Government, Internet, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct
- Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. “I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,â€...
- Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses
- It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...
- Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression
- Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyrics
- AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyricsATT censoring phonesIt's not surprising the phone company is trying to censor programming, TV networks such as sinclair censor as common practice.Well, thank goodness it was uncensored at the live venuetoo bad AT&T did what they did with their signal. Need to use more...
- Tags: Government, American Public, AT&T Corp., ATT
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- The true nature of open source
- The true nature of open sourceThat's why we need GPL3!...No more gimmiks with 'commercial' versions or proprietary binaries included.Heck, if this is 'open source' for you, than even M$ can claimed that they use OSS!So the closer to proprietary software...... open source software companies can get, the greater their chances...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, open source, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- Stallman's Fight Stalls GPL Version 3
- Stallman's Fight Stalls GPL Version 3Right on all countsEven Microsofties like John Carroll see the inherent wrongheadedness of software patents. They afford protection to concepts that were never intended to have the status of "intellectual property" in the first place. I would [i]love[/i] to see them struck down in an...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, Stallman, Stalin, GPL 3
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- "Bad idea" jeans
- "Bad idea" jeansHardly the first timeBy the way, please note that the US Embassy to Peru tried to do a bit if arm-twisting on Microsoft's behalf a few years back, as did the embassy to Brazil.Someone apparently failed to mention to the Ambassadors that the 19th Century ended a few...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Tech giants' 'nauseating collaboration' in China
- Congressman: Yahoo, Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft are "agentsCongressman: Yahoo, Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft are "agents of repression"In a House subcommittee hearing for global human rights, Rep. Tom Lantos accuses four major U.S. technology companies of "complete compliance" with Chinese repression of civil rights and political dissent. Their actions are, he...
- Tags: Real estate, collaboration
- Videos 2006-02-15
- Google censors themself
- Google censors themselfDon't be evil?I can't believe Google would do something like this. What ever happened to "Don't be evil"? What is more evil than a corporation censoring free speech?Chinese users who visit Google cannot find information about political issues such as Taiwanese independence, Falun Gong, the Tiananmensquare massacre, and...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
- Court dismisses Yahoo's free speech lawsuit
- Court dismisses Yahoo's free speech lawsuitBring Back the GuillotineIf the American people do not wake up soon there will not even be a vestige of the Bill of Rights left to pass on to the next generation.No branch of the federal government nor all of them combined have the right...
- Tags: Government, Yahoo! Inc., Amendment Process
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
- Missouri: 0, Toronto 1
- This is the last in my Christmas series: 2005: the missing headlies in which the game is that the headline has to be relevant to IT, and both true and demonstrably false. Think about everything you've read about IT this year and you should be willing to see a...
- Tags: Digger, Whit
- Blog posts 2005-12-29
- Bloggers have rights, too
- Bloggers have rights, tooYAWN...YAWN...blogger journalismTraditional journalists have rights which cannot be lightly abridged by the government, but they are also responsible to the managers of media companies, who must exercise some control over how journalists function and enforce some level of competence and quality (2nd rate though it often is)....
- Tags: Blogging, DSL, Broadband Internet, High-tech, blogger
- Discussion threads 2005-03-24
- Motorola moves units to China, India
- Motorola moves units to China, IndiaAnother Traitor!!!here we go again...I hope the people responsible lose their jobs, so they will know what its like!!Message has been deleted.Wow, the chinese are paid very wellMy brother inlaw just came back to Canada from a work trip to China for two weeks. While...
- Tags: Benefits, Outsourcing, government, Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-09
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