Yahoo!News reports that “Microsoft Corp. and the GSM Association are promoting 3G (third generation) mobile telecommunications by asking companies to build laptop PCs that automatically connect to the Internet wirelessly over mobile phone networks. They're hosting a contest challenging companies to design mobile phone-like connectivity into easy-to-use laptops aimed at [...]
Recently, You Tube removed a video posted by a user of her baby dancing to a Prince song after receiving a takedown request from Univiersal Music Group because Universal claimed the video infringed its copyrights []. And, for all those who have watched the grainy and barely [...]
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 most important one is that: unlike the Highlander, there CAN be MORE than one. 1. Multiple Standards Can Live Side [...]
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 Yoon Kit on my previous post (referenced here by Peter Galli in ZDNet). Yoon questioned my assertion that, "Any policy [...]
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 dropped offline. According to Trend Micro, the Register says, “the infamous network dropped off the net at around 0200 GMT [...]