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| Sep 4, 2012 | Please Welcome Natasha Lomas And Darrell Etherington (And Drew Olanoff) To TechCrunch | At TechCrunch, we have a long and illustrious track record when it comes to hiring the absolute best-of-the-best in technology journalism.
Like many, I remember the day vividly when we hired MG Siegler, and the rest, as they say…is blogging... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Information explosion: how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation | Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson reader comments 70 with 51 posters participating, including story author
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| Jul 29, 2011 | Microsoft's Anti-Google Gmail Ad Fails -- Not Once, but Twice | Humor is a tough call in marketing, and it only gets harder in high tech. It's too easy for the jokes to get indecipherable without an engineering degree -- or, worse, to come off like a forced spoof of the cool kids written for a high scho... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Symbian CEO Lee Williams steps down | Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams has stepped down from his position citing “personal reasons”, Mobile Industry Review reports.
The foundation is a non-profit organization, founded in June 2008, that spearheads the development of the Symb... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | QWERTY candybars may be the next Windows Phone 7 form factor | From the very beginning, Microsoft have insisted on keeping complete control over both the form factors and internal specs of any phone that wishes to run their upcoming OS, Windows Phone 7.
So far, however, Microsoft have only given detail... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Microsoft to Corporate America: Fear Google | Microsoft (MSFT) has plenty of reason to fear Google (GOOG): online search dominance, enough ad revenues to fund anything, Android eating smartphone OS market share, Google Apps user-base growing at a dizzying rate, and an upcoming netbook ... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Data Leakage – Planning To Fail | By Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, specialists in secure infrastructure solutions.
Woking, Surrey: 23rd July 09 - After the loss, in a pub car park, of a memory stick containing information said to give access to government tax an... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Biometric ID Cards Come To Britain… Biometric ID Card Readers, Not So Much | The British government’s plans to introduce national ID cards that store biometric information about people have been causing controversy for some time. The first batch of the cards are now being issued to foreign nationals in the country, ... |
| Dec 12, 2008 | UK Police Want Magic 'This Computer Is Used By A Criminal' Alert Software | It seems that some folks in the UK police department are in their “wishful thinking” mode as we approach the holidays — and those wishes seem to include everything. Specifically, detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie is asking for a the... |
| May 3, 2008 | What Will Microsoft Do With Credentica? | Anybody following Identity/Privacy today is rooting for OpenID. They look like the good guys and they have momentum. However the purchase of Credentica by Microsoft in March was below most people’s radar screens. You would need a keen inter... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | BPI Crackdown Planned as BitTorrent Becomes ‘Too Easy’ | Industry associations such as the RIAA and IFPI grab most of the anti-piracy headlines in the music world. The UK’s British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has a lower profile, but one which was significantly raised due to its involvement in th... |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Zeus Technology wins Networking Product of the Year award | Zeus Technology wins Networking Product of the Year award
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Zeus’ ZXTM VA wins CNET Networks UK Technology Award
At CNET Network UK’s annual Business Technology awards ceremony on the 24th of September, a panel of 22 judges awarded... |
| Dec 18, 2006 | Is There A Balancing Act Between Sharing Health Info And Privacy? | Over in the UK, as they’re getting ready to rollout a new electronic patient record system for healthcare, there are a number of worries that such a system will inevitably lead to huge privacy breaches. Since it will be a centralized system... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | Ray Ozzie named top Agenda Setter for 2006 | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Aug 30, 2006 | The Disconnect In Demand For In-Flight Broadband And Service Success | Boeing’s decision to shut down Connexion, its in-flight broadband service, wasn’t too surprising, given the few carriers that had rolled out it. But in some sense, it was puzzling, because there’s such an apparent interest in in-flight broa... |
| Aug 29, 2006 | UK Cabinet Office Dinged For Violating The Copyright Of The UK Cabinet Office | Last week, the UK’s Cabinet Office got plenty of publicity for putting some videos on YouTube, suggesting that it was a good way to get certain messages out to the public. In fact, in that article, the reporter sounded surprised, noting tha... |
| Apr 25, 2006 | Rumors Of Cash's Demise Greatly Exaggerated | People have been dreaming of a cashless economy for some time, though for all of the promise, the stuff doesn’t seem to be going away. Now an analyst is predicting trouble for the ATM business, claiming that contactless, biometric payment s... |
| Dec 1, 2005 | UK Gov't Promises IDs Are Absolutely Un-Forgeable… Maybe | You should generally be careful when using “absolutes” (or should I say, you should always be careful in using absolutes?). Over in the UK, where they’re introducing a new national ID card, the former head of of MI5 has said any attempt to ... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | How Should Spammers Be Punished? | An opinion piece comparing the recent sentencing in three different spam-related cases notes the wide disparity in the sentences — but thinks it’s a good thing. The longer sentences were given in cases where the spam was simply part of a sc... |
| Jun 23, 2005 | Microsoft Says: Our Way Or The Spam Folder | A year ago, we noted that it certainly looked like a standards battle was brewing concerning various email sender authentication techniques, and wondered if it was going to create some difficulties. Well, here we go. While some of the diffe... |
| Apr 20, 2005 | UK Recording Industry Dismisses Promotional Impact Of File Sharing As Nonsense | The recording industry continues to keep its blinders on. After announcing new lawsuits targeted at people file sharing in the UK, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) — which is the UK equivalent of the RIAA — trotted out their favorite... |
| Mar 9, 2005 | Tony Blair Tests The Spamming Waters | What is it with politicians and spam? While they all proclaim to hate spam and pass useless laws that pretend to ban spam, they still have no problem sending out spam themselves. While it’s normally been used by politicians campaigning for ... |
| Nov 19, 2004 | Spam For Your Soul | It isn’t the first time that spam has been going around that doesn’t appear to have a clear purpose in actually selling something, but some spam watchers have noticed an awful lot of religious spam suddenly clogging our mail servers. The an... |
| Nov 10, 2004 | Has Spam Stabilized? | Could it be? Instead of continuing its devouring of all email, could spam actually be stabilizing? That’s the claim from one anti-spam firm who says for the past three months, the percentage of email they believe is spam has stayed relative... |
| May 27, 2004 | IT Blame Games | A while back, we were wondering whether or not a company is negligent if they “allow” themselves to be hacked and lose customer data. Nothing is foolproof, so there will always be security risks — both in the real world and the IT world. So... |
| Apr 21, 2004 | Political Spamming In India | While we’ve complained about political spam campaigns here in the US, it seems to have been taken to another level in India, where campaigns are spamming both email and text messaging accounts with wild abandon. In fact, the campaigns have ... |
| Apr 20, 2004 | How Dare Companies Trust Their Employees! | A new study in the UK has come out saying that, while more companies are providing internet access to employees, a smaller percentage are using filtering technology to block out “inappropriate” sites. The article makes this out to be a terr... |
| Apr 16, 2004 | No, This Time We're Serious About Video Calls | If there’s one thing you can count on, decade after decade, it’s predictions that people will start making video phone calls. The latest is mixing it with a 3G twist and suggesting that, even though regular videophones have failed on a regu... |
| Apr 14, 2004 | Tech Jargon Confusing People Into Buying | Recently we wrote about a study saying that too much tech jargon was scaring off buyers and suggested that companies focuse more on benefits than jargon to attract customers. Well, as some pointed out at the time, tech jargon can be a two w... |
| Apr 1, 2004 | Wireless Fools… | I have to admit, some of the April Fool’s news stories this year have been much more clever than in past years. Perhaps it’s just a sign of how ridiculous the tech industry is these days that all these stories seem just slightly plausible. ... |
| Mar 30, 2004 | Apple Says iPod Users Would Rather Be Mugged Than Tacky | Last month, we mentioned reports that Apple’s distinct white iPod headphones were attracting muggers who knew that the expensive device was tucked away in a pocket somewhere. For some reason, it took a month, but suddenly this is the big st... |
| Mar 26, 2004 | Watch Your Own Speeding Videos | There have been a lot of stories over the last few months about faulty speed cameras. However, in an effort to make them more acceptable, one safety camera group in the UK is going to let people log into a website and view their own safety ... |
| Mar 19, 2004 | Identity Theft Made Easy: Just Ask People For Their Info | Last year, there was a study saying that if you wanted to get someone’s password, they would cough it up in exchange for a pen. It seems that things haven’t gotten much better. A study in the UK shows that many people will cough up their mo... |
| Mar 17, 2004 | Virgin's Free Train WiFi – Neither Free, Nor On Trains | Not sure if this is just sloppy reporting or misleading PR. Last year, Virgin Railways in the UK announced that they were putting WiFi on their trains – which they weren’t. They were simply putting WiFi in some stations. Now, they’ve done i... |
| Mar 9, 2004 | Web Copycats | Stories like this seem to come up every so often, as online publishers begin to realize that their content is not protected. A car enthusiast website owner discovered that someone had taken all of the content for his site (including the pag... |
| Mar 9, 2004 | Lots Of WiFi Equipment Failing Certification Tests | The Wi-Fi Alliance is saying that over 25% of the equipment they test has failed to receive WiFi certification. That equipment can still be marketed as 802.11-compatible, but without the WiFi name. Of course, the article doesn’t say how man... |
| Mar 5, 2004 | UK Government Slams Useless Anti-Virus Industry | It appears the UK government has caught on to what a lot of people have been noticing lately: most anti-virus software hasn’t done anything to stop viruses. In fact, they found that, while 99% of companies were using anti-virus software, 68... |
| Mar 2, 2004 | Can People Keep Their Feet On The Ground When Money Flows? | Uh oh. There have been lots of little signs that things in the startup/tech world were picking up, but now it seems that even the venture capitalists are convinced we’re entering the next boom. That might be all that matters, because those ... |
| Feb 26, 2004 | Identity Theft Awareness Growing | With all the stories floating around about online identity theft it’s almost hard to believe that anyone isn’t aware of it. The good news, though, is that many more people are aware of the potential for identity theft, but that doesn’t seem... |
| Feb 24, 2004 | CEOs Done With Cost Cutting | A new study from IBM is being used to suggest that the economy is coming back. They asked a bunch of CEOs what they’re focusing on now and discovered that after years of focusing on “cost cutting”, CEOs are done with that. Now they’re focus... |
| Feb 24, 2004 | Useless Study: Businesses More Interested In WiFi Than In 3G | In what has to be one of the more useless studies around, a group of CIOs were asked which was more important to them these days: 3G or WiFi. Take a wild guess at the answer. Of course CIOs are more interested in WiFi. It’s here now, it wor... |
| Feb 23, 2004 | How Dell Thinks They've Made The World A Safer Place | While this has been joked about on various mailing lists and websites, the folks over at Silicon.com are now really making fun of Dell for asking their “big, dumb question” to anyone trying to buy a computer in the US: asking users whether ... |
| Feb 5, 2004 | Orange Tries Try Before You Buy For Data Services | Realizing that people aren’t rushing out to sign up for various new data offerings, Orange has realized that it’s tough to make people pay for something when they don’t understand the value. Thus, they’re going to offer a new “try before yo... |
| Feb 4, 2004 | CD-Wow Accused Of Unfairly Blaming Industry For Price Increase | The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certainly seems a bit touchy on the whole CD Wow mess. Last week BPI won a ruling against CD Wow saying it was illegal for them to source (completely legitimate) CDs from Asia where they were cheaper.... |
| Jan 29, 2004 | Hanging On Every Word From Google Folks | It’s been widely discussed how every time Alan Greenspan speaks, people pick through everything he says, and tries to interpret every single word choice as an indicator of what he really means. It seems that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getti... |
| Jan 21, 2004 | Video Phones Won't Catch On Because They'll Uncover Liars | Something of an odd prediction, suggesting that 3G video phones will never catch on because it will make it more difficult to lie about your location. I hadn’t realized that so many people used their mobile phones as a way of lying about wh... |
| Jan 20, 2004 | Hiding Your Last Will And Testament In Your USB Watch | Among the gadgets on my “list of things I want” is the popular “USB Watch” available from a variety of sources, that is a somewhat stylish watch that includes a well-hidden USB memory device that can store up to 256 megs. Now, someone in Au... |
| Jan 19, 2004 | It's Buy Your Employees A PC Day In The UK | Over in the UK they have some complicated regulations concerning incentives for helping companies help their employees buy computers. They’re trying to make it easier with a set of guidelines that make the system clear. Companies can get a ... |
| Jan 12, 2004 | Pro-RFID Group Sends Wrong Email To Anti-RFID Group | You’ve all heard stories (or been a part of) about email exchanges where the wrong thing was sent to the wrong person. One of the more common mistakes is someone hitting “reply” instead of “forward” and typing in a comment that the original... |
| Jan 12, 2004 | Blaming Child Porn On The Internet | dan winckler writes in with a link to a story about a new report from a children’s charity looking at the rise in child porn arrests over the past fifteen years, and basically blaming the internet – and saying we need to create systems that... |
| Jan 12, 2004 | Stupid Study Blasts Mobile Phones For Child Porn | What is it with bad studies and people who want to blame bad actions on neutral technologies? The latest is that suddenly everyone is afraid of how mobile phones can be used for child porn thanks to a dreadful and misleading study from a ch... |
| Jan 7, 2004 | Amazon Investigated For Shipping CDs Overseas | A friend of mine once pointed out to me that, on certain CDs that are quite difficult or expensive to get in the US, if you log in to Amazon’s UK site, you can get them much cheaper. Of course, it looks like some folks in the UK do the same... |
| Jan 7, 2004 | How Much Data Are You Willing To Give Up For What? | This shouldn’t really be much of a surprise at all, but the article is written as if it’s completely out of the blue that people shopping for groceries have no problem being tracked by RFID, if they receive discounts. There is a limit, thou... |
| Jan 6, 2004 | Taking Away Intellectual Property Protection For Those With Market Power | Over at Silicon.com, someone has come up with an interesting suggestion for adjusting intellectual property laws for software – saying that if you own more than 50% of the market, you should be forced to give away your product – and its sou... |
| Jan 5, 2004 | BT Trying Different WiFi Pricing Schemes | BT is trying to expand their WiFi offerings by lowering the cost of their “hotspot in a box” offering and offering different subscription plans for users. I’m not sure all of this makes sense. If they really want to expand their footprint, ... |
| Dec 22, 2003 | Scam Within A Scam Warning | There have been a ton of warnings about so-called “phishing” spam scams – where a very realistic email from a well-known financial firm asks you to confirm the details of your account. Of course, the email isn’t real and the scammers just w... |
| Dec 18, 2003 | Adobe Launches Own E-Book Store | So soon after Barnes & Noble shut down their own eBook store, Adobe apparently realized they need to jumpstart this market on their own, if they want to make sure that electronic books start showing up in their preferred pdf format. So,... |
| Dec 17, 2003 | One Half Of All Street Crime Involving Mobile Phones? | Over in the UK they’ve decided that it’s finally time (no, really, this time we mean it!) to crack down on mobile phone theft. The interesting factoid to me, was the claim that approximately half of all street crime in London now involves a... |
| Dec 16, 2003 | Disputed SCO Code Won't Be Made Public | I’m sure all of the many many sites focusing on the SCO lawsuit will have more thoughts on this, but the latest news is that, despite an original ruling saying that SCO needed to make the disputed code public, SCO has now convinced the judg... |
| Dec 2, 2003 | Latest Spam Designed Only To Annoy Spamhaus | The spammers have been getting angry lately, because it appears that the work of many anti-spammers is actually somewhat effective. So, instead of focusing on, perhaps, figuring out a way to market legitimate products without pissing off ju... |
| Dec 1, 2003 | Vigilantes Destroying Mobile Phone Masts | There are plenty of stories about people worried about mobile phone masts being put up in their communities. As much as they like the idea of better mobile phone coverage, they’re worried about the potential for health problems. Now, howeve... |
| Dec 1, 2003 | Technology Making Work Less Stressful Or More Stressful? | While there have been lots of talk about how computers and technology are causing problems in the workplace, on the whole, it appears that people are pretty happy with new technologies. A new study shows that, for many people, information t... |
| Nov 26, 2003 | Tracking Everyone, All The Time | Privacy? What’s that? While a bunch of companies have been advertising systems to let people track their children at all times, now the companies that pitch such offerings are expanding them, saying that you should also be spying on your em... |
| Nov 21, 2003 | Good Time To Be In The Computer Security Business | While IT spending still isn’t increasing noticeably, it turns out that a larger and larger portion of the budget is focused on security spending. In other words, security companies have done a bad enough job protecting computers that securi... |
| Nov 18, 2003 | PalmSource Pushing For Smartphone Apps | Realizing that the more apps people get hooked on, the more convinced they’ll be to stick with a particular platform, the newly separated PalmSource is pushing for new smartphone applications. Unlike non-connected PalmOS powered devices, th... |
| Nov 10, 2003 | Spammers Hijacking Servers Is Nothing New | While there are plenty of stories these days about spammers hijacking computers around the world to send out more spam, you might not realize that this is nothing new. A story published five years ago said that, at the time, one in five cor... |
| Nov 3, 2003 | Virus Writers Stuck In A Rut? | Anti-virus companies love to get people worked up into a lather about all the virus threats out there, because it helps them sell more product. So, it wasn’t much of a surprise that, following the “big” virus and trojan horse problems in Au... |
| Oct 24, 2003 | Worried About Links In France | Over in France, folks are worried about sites that link to illegal content. The article is a translation of one that (apparently) was originally written in French, and so it’s a bit confusing in some spots. It seems like they’re trying to c... |
| Oct 22, 2003 | Gullible Users Still The Weakest Security Link | For all the worries about software that isn’t secure enough, it appears that the weakest link is still the users themselves, who are more than willing to hand over their password for a chance to win a prize. Hackers are (for good reason) us... |
| Oct 17, 2003 | Trojan Defense Works Again | That’s it. If you ever get arrested for any type of crime that involves a computer, your defense is clear: “it wasn’t me, it was a secret trojan horse that got installed on my computer.” It’s worked for someone accused of child porn and for... |
| Oct 15, 2003 | Full Hotel Coverage For WiFi: It's Not Just For The Lobby Any More | While I’m sure this will become an increasingly common announcement, Marriott today announced that they’ve completely WiFi-enabled a hotel in the UK. They’re not just talking about the lobby or certain guest rooms, but the whole damn hotel.... |
| Oct 14, 2003 | Is M2M The Next Big Money Maker In The Mobile World? | Well, it looks like we’ve found the “next big thing” to hype in the mobile world. Analysts are starting to come out with their usual “$xx billion in 5 years” predictions for “M2M” mobile connections. It’s not entirely clear what M2M connect... |
| Oct 14, 2003 | Now Let's Wait Until 2006 For 3G | While Hutchison’s 3 keeps pushing ahead with their 3G offering, it seems like they might be way ahead of the crowd in Europe. A new study is predicting that 3G services won’t really catch on until 2006 in Europe – and until then it’ll be mo... |
| Oct 13, 2003 | Online Betting Patterns Reveal Tennis Match Fixing | Sports players purposely losing games in exchange for betting money is nothing new at all. However, patterns in internet betting may make it easier to catch those involved. Authorities are now investigating a number of tennis players accuse... |
| Oct 2, 2003 | Email Is The Cholesterol Of Modern Business | A good followup to the earlier post today about fixing the email problem. It seems that others agree that part of the problem is that too many people are trying to do things over email that would be better served via other methods. The prob... |
| Sep 26, 2003 | Is Copied Software A Threat To Civilization As We Know It? | If you thought the RIAA was bad (and they are), you should read some of what the BSA is now saying. They’re basically trying to blame all the world’s problems on anyone who dares copy software. They say that pirated software is funding orga... |
| Sep 25, 2003 | BSA Takes A Page From The RIAA: 'Fess Up For Amnesty | Looks like the software industry’s BSA is taking a page from the RIAA and are offering some form of “amnesty” to anyone who ‘fesses up about using unauthorized software. Silicon.com takes a look at the offer and wonders who would possibly b... |
| Sep 23, 2003 | WiFi: Go (Far) East, Young Wireless Technology… | Is WiFi the next big thing in China? It depends on who you talk to, apparently. According to China Daily there’s huge demand for WiFi in China and WiFi equipment sales are only going to increase rapidly in the near future. However, this oth... |
| Sep 23, 2003 | Police Networks Over GPRS | Last week we wrote about the San Mateo police department covering their downtown area with a WiFi mesh for police to use to retrieve and send data to police databases. Over in the UK, however, a police department has decided to go with a GP... |
| Sep 18, 2003 | UK Spam Laws: Too Little, Too Late, Too Lame | Just a few days ago we reported that British politicians were saying spam was all the US’s fault because we wouldn’t pass the spam legislation they wanted. So, how are they doing over there in the UK? Here’s a report that suggests their own... |
| Sep 12, 2003 | Nigerian Scammers Following Up Spam With Telemarketing Calls | Sick of having Nigerian princesses offering you millions over email? They might start telemarketing you as well. Admittedly, there’s only a single data point, but Silicon.com is reporting the story of one man who says he started receiving a... |
| Sep 8, 2003 | Finance People Don't Understand Technology | You wouldn’t think that we needed a study to point this out, but following last week’s story predicting that CFOs were going to take a bigger role in determining IT purchases, we pointed out the fact that most CFOs don’t understand enough a... |
| Sep 3, 2003 | Are CFOs Pushing Out CIOs? | How hard is it to balance both sides of a cost-benefit equation? Why does it seem that so many people can only look at one side? During the boom years, when tech spending was crazy, people were only looking at the supposed “benefit” (and ev... |
| Sep 2, 2003 | Everyone Makes Digital Blunders | Time and experience with the internet or other digital technologies hasn’t meant any decrease in folks making some sort of digitally influenced faux pas. It seems that just about everyone has a story of sending the wrong email to the wrong ... |
| Aug 28, 2003 | Nokia Looking For Another Billion Users | Apparently 1.2 billion users isn’t enough for Nokia. It was only recently that Nokia was concerned that their market was getting saturated and was talking about coming up with ways to convince people they needed multiple mobile phones (a di... |
| Aug 28, 2003 | Ringtone Piracy Booming In Asia | Is it really any surprise that ringtone piracy is occurring? It’s even less of a surprise that it’s happening in Asia, where music piracy is rampant. Of course, chasing down each of the folks responsible is probably a costly activity. For o... |
| Aug 20, 2003 | Yahoo Testing A Google-Free Lifestyle In Australia | This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but Yahoo, who has bought, or is in the process of buying, just about every other search vendor other than their “search partner” Google, wants to move Google out from the Yahoo search wo... |
| Aug 19, 2003 | Is Getting Canned Voicemail From Stars Really That Appealing? | Maybe I’m just too cynical. However, I don’t really see the appeal of a newly launched service that will let mobile phone users receive canned voicemail messages from their favorite sports stars in the UK. Now, I know that football (soccer,... |
| Aug 14, 2003 | What's The Cost Of Spam False Positives? | We’ve had plenty of stories suggesting that spam filters often were causing more problems than they were solving, but this is the first time I’ve seen anything indicating the cost of spam filters flagging false positives. A research firm is... |
| Aug 14, 2003 | Microsoft Offering Music Downloads In Europe | I don’t think this is a huge surprise, but there has been a ton of press coverage this morning about a Microsoft-branded music download service in Europe. It’s another “me too” music download service that charges per song and comes bundled ... |
| Aug 13, 2003 | Fears Of Workers Wasting Time Online Unfounded | Silicon.com often runs some interesting stories that they posted “five years ago”, and then catches you up with the situation today. They often do a pretty good job of putting things in perspective, and relating it to a situation today. The... |
| Aug 4, 2003 | How Can You Blame WiFi For Shoulder Surfing? | Is there something they put in the journalists’ morning coffee that makes them stop thinking about things when it comes to WiFi security stories? The latest is this bizarre piece from Silicon.com talking about the “dangers” of someone “shou... |
| Aug 1, 2003 | OS War Over, OS Dead, Sun Won, Redmond Lost | Someone needs to tell Bill Gates, but Sun’s Scott McNealy has decided that Microsoft has lost the OS wars. This seems to be a bit of wishful thinking, but the idea is that people are increasingly moving to a web services world, and who woul... |
| Jul 29, 2003 | 5 Years Ago… Compaq Spends $3m On Altavista.com Address | How quickly things change. Back in the early days of the web, Digital Equipment Corporate set up a nice little search engine called AltaVista, that they ran at altavista.digital.com. Originally, they took a very Google-esque strategy of sel... |
| Jul 22, 2003 | Sendo Drops Orange Lawsuit | Back in June, Sendo launched a lawsuit against Orange for selling the SPV phone from HTC. This was really an extension of their highly publicized lawsuit against Microsoft, who Sendo claims stole their intellectual property and gave it to o... |
| Jul 18, 2003 | People Becoming Resigned To Spam | Some new studies about spam suggest that there’s a bit of anti-spam backlash going on. First, fewer people now say spam is “very annoying”. The folks behind the study say that this suggests people are (a) using better tools to fight spam an... |
| Jul 10, 2003 | The Text Messaging Time Bomb – And Some DRM | I have to admit that I’m usually suspicious of any sort of industry analysis “predicting” market sizes. They’re almost always wrong, they almost never look back and admit how badly they were wrong and (more importantly) why they were wrong.... |
| Jul 10, 2003 | Bill Gates Is The Internet's Biggest Fraud | I saw this hoax email a few years ago, but it’s quite some time since anyone has sent it my way again. However, it appears that the new population of gullible emailers keeps growing. A new study suggests that the “Bill Gates will give you m... |
| Jul 10, 2003 | Fat Lady Sings For MP3.com | MP3.com, one of the original online music sites, that nearly got sued out of existence until they were cheap enough for Universal music to buy, looks like it won’t be around much longer. Vivendi, the distressed owner of Universal, has shut ... |