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- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
- I've been investigating Apple Cocoa API as I plan to complement my Windows and UNIX development skills with skills in Mac development. That doesn't mean I am willing to accept weak attacks what I consider to be a superior development platform: .NET. by John Carroll
- Tags: Win32, API, Apple Inc., Programmer, Smokescreen, WinForms, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
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- IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate
- IBM move reopens Open Office XML debateWhich side attacked?I have the impression that requiring Microsoft to go through the standards process was an attempt to make it more difficult to sell Office. The strategy: governments and perhaps other organizations could mandate that formats used for saving documents had...
- Tags: Vertical industries, XML, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., government, Microsoft Office, Open Office XML debate, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?What was done was wrong. Period.Hacking is hacking. I sure hope a case can be made against this persons.As much as I can't stand the thought of Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from running this country, and no children...I'm NOT...
- Tags: Hacking, Sarah Palin, e-mail, e-mail hacker, David Kernell
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Failed government IT: 'The mother of all databases'
- Failed government IT: 'The mother of all databases'Just another reason to keep government smallThis is just another example of how incompitant our government can be. This is a huge problem all over the government and it is wasting billions of our hard earned money while some would like to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Keep-It-Simple, government, database, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Yahoo: Icahn just a short-termer
- Yahoo: Icahn just a short-termerYahoo's BOD is desperate to save face in light......of their mistake of not selling to MS at $33/share. CNN announced today that Yahoo is now willing to sell at $33/share if Microsoft would offer it to them again.Yahoo's BOD messed up bad. All this "short termer"...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link
- An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution linkAssaults on Fair Use benefit no oneThe AP is hurting themselves as well as their consumers by this short-sighted action. While use of an entire article or other substantial body of work is copyright infringement, there is an important...
- Tags: adtribution, fair use, news article
- Discussion threads 2008-06-21
- Thoughts on AOL's Bebo acquisition
- Rumors of Google or News Corp.-owned MySpace buying Bebo have proved to be a smokescreen for the social networking site's new owner: Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. In a statement released this morning, AOL said it had acquired Bebo for $850 million in cash (pending U.S. and EU...
- Tags: Bebo, Acquisition, America Online Inc., British Broadcasting Corp., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Snakes on a Plain...and Down the Avenue
- Seems Belem, Brazil, has a reptile problem. We're not talking about lawyers and politicians either, though these reptiles also slither on their bellies. These are the legless snakes who cannot speak with their forked tongues. And the Belemites are worried their city on a level plain at...
- Tags: Brazil, Greenpeace, Deforestation, Sugar, Government, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March
- No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-MarchNot strange at all.There is always a 30 day period between release of a Microsoft OS or SP from RTM to general release. This is to allow the OEMs to get their hardware ready for the general release. They did not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, service pack, SP1, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Apple, the $20 iPod touch update and GAAP
- Since my post yesterday about the $20 iPod touch software update several readers have contacted me to explain how Apple had to charge for this update because of generally accepted accounting principles GAAP. This issue, so I'm told, is much the same as the way Apple had to charge $1.99 the 802.11n...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Digital Media, GAAP, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- IE team shares ... a version number
- The Internet Explorer team has posted a new nugget of info about the next version of Microsoft's browser. The next release of IE will be called -- wait for it -- "Internet Explorer 8." That's it. More info to come -- at least...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Internet Explorer Team, Microsoft Platforms Team, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- EU opens antitrust probe against Qualcomm
- EU opens antitrust probe against QualcommWhine, whine, whineThat's all I'm hearing. "They're charging us more than we want to pay - go get 'em, EU commission."QUALCOMM and MicrosoftPress from QUALCOMM. This very much is related to Microsoft."May 04, 2006 — QUALCOMM Incorporated and Microsoft Corp. today jointly announced a...
- Tags: Corporate law, Benefits, Qualcomm Inc., Microsoft Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Patent law overhaul: Bad for start-ups?
- Patent law overhaul: Bad for start-ups?All patents must die [nt].The same dire cries were heard ....The same dire cries and predictions were heard decades ago whenthe "truth in lending" reforms were instituted for the financialsector.You have to admit, they do have a pointand it is a very valid one.Re: Patent...
- Tags: innovator, Kamen, patent, Patent Law, innovation
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Apple Store "Sleepover" for one reason only-to oversee iPhone arrival
- The reported iPhone-driven Apple Sleepover" tonight is so transparent in cause I am surprised others haven't seen through this smokescreen.To review, and as AppleInsider tells us, this is all about at least two Apple Store employees spending all of tonight at their store. It must be deduced that cots...
- Tags: Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eye
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eyeUntrustworthy?Personally, I don't trust it. They appear to have *preemptively* singled out how Google is worse than Microsoft - why? They take offense to things that don't matter to me (what is wrong with seeing whether someone has read an e-mail...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., Privacy International
- Discussion threads 2007-06-10
- Who believes White House emails were lost?
- Writing in ComputerWorld, Steve Duplessie attacks the "lost" White House emails surrounding the US Attorneys flap. He says the claims that the emails were lost is just a "smokescreen." If the White House is telling Congress it lost those questionable e-mails, that means the mail client that authored the...
- Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Gates urges federal data privacy law
- Gates urges federal data privacy lawWe agree on one thingOnly I'd go one farther: I would let people decide who gets to keep their information on file. Maybe you like the idea of instant credit, maybe you don't care. If you don't you should have the ability to...
- Tags: SECURITY, citizenship, Microsoft Corp., EULA, privacy
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- The commie smear against open source
- The commie smear against open sourceDo you blame them?The reaction is based on fear. Open Source is a challenge to the current echo system. Many of the old school developers and programmers aren't sure how or if they can make a living in this new world. People get scared when...
- Tags: Government, communist, commie, open source, GPL, Dana, software, GNU
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Senate Democrats badger FCC boss on Net neutrality
- Senate Democrats badger FCC boss on Net neutralityFeading off the Public CommonsThe public decides what is public. I suspect US citizens have gotten use to owning both the air waves and all things Internet. Its about communication necessary for democracy. Its about freedom.Enron/Blockbuster's plan to create choke points in Internet...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, U.S. Senate, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Google's achilles heel
- A chance conversation last week alerted me to a potential chink in Googles apparently impregnable market position. As the mythical Greek hero Achilles found, just a small area of vulnerability in his case a single heel is enough to bring down even the most invincible of combatants. Google...
- Tags: SEARCH, search engine, advertisement, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
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