November 15, 2007
Thomas “The Hammer” Vinje Abuses IGF
Thomas Vinje, the longtime legal hitman for anti-Microsoft front groups, used the forum of a United Nations conference on Internet Governance to try to re-launch a baseless [...]
Study predicts “anemic growth” for IT spending in 2008
Internetnews.com reports that, according to research released this week by Computer Economics, “IT spending in 2008 will increase by only low single digit percentages and may be [...]
Microsoft and GSM Association promote 3G mobile telecommunications
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 Right to Royally Irritate One’s Customers
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]