DVDs and ODF Part II: Why Document Formats are NOT like the Highlander
To follow up on my previous post on DVDs and ODF, here are a few of the lessons we can draw from the evolution of video recording formats. Perhaps the [...]
DVDs and ODF Part I: What ODF Zealots Can Learn from Betamax and DVDs
Travel has gotten in the way of my promised blog post on the "ODF, CDF, and Character Assassination," but in the meantime I’ve been having an interesting conversation with reader [...]
Controversial Russian Business Network has suddenly dropped offline
The Register reports that the “Russian Business Network (RBN) - the [c]ontroversial hosting firm fingered by many as a nexus of malware exploits and cybercrime more generally - has suddenly [...]
Yahoo apologizes for giving dissident’s records to Chinese officials
According to the International Herald Tribune, Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony Tuesday at a heated U.S. congressional [...]
Red Hat clarifies that its Patent Promise extends only to suppliers.
Last week, I posted that it was unfair for Red Hat to complain that Microsoft does not give free patent licenses to competitors, when it doesn't either. I explained that [...]
Nanotechnology to replace disk drives within the next decade?
Slashdot writes that “[a]n Arizona State University researcher named Michael Kozicki claims that nanotechnology will replace disk drives in ten years. The article mentions three approaches: Nanowires (which replace electrons/capacitors), [...]