Ars Technica points out that Apple is now the strongest pro-DRM force in digital media. The Seattle Times reports that “[l]awyers [are] puzzled why Apple would go into [a] skirmish with Cisco”. According to NetworkWorld, “[s]ome Web site operators are complaining that Google is flagging their sites as containing malicious [...]
InfoWorld reports that “[o]ffshoring of software development by software companies is not costing Americans jobs, according to a report being announced Thursday by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).” ZDNet has an interesting article on the downside risks of Google as a public service. In an unrelated story, ZDNet [...]
Over on the Tech Liberation Front, the Show Me Institute’s Tim Lee is questioning my post on the role patents played in the development of Apple’s new iPhone. Unfortunately, it seems that Mr. Lee has been brainwashed by the mythology of the anti-software patent crowd. While I don’t have time [...]
The Washington Times reports that “[t]he U.S. Supreme Court yesterday made it easier to challenge the patents of drug maker Genentech Inc. and other companies that receive royalties on their products.” According to the BBC News, “[t]he EU's laws on labor migration are being tested by a court case about [...]
That is the big question on the day the world awoke with a technolust-at-first-sight hangover. How did Apple create a device so utterly cool and innovative that geeks, hipsters, and soccer mom's alike are now counting the days until they can buy one?