The Wired article, Rude Awakening for File Sharers, highlights the common misconceptions that people have over ‘paid’ and ‘legitimate’ software and files. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has demonstrated that the two terms do not necessarily equate with each other, by proceeding to take action against paid subscribers of Kazaa, who are now …
Microsoft has lost another major client, The US Navy: The new way of fighting is built around Internet standards, including web pages, routers, Ethernet, instant messaging, and chat rooms. Casualties appear to be both expensive customized systems and Microsoft software. What users probably don’t like about Microsoft: High price tags for many of its products, …
Today was ‘Patch-The-PCs’ day. Fixing the Microsoft Windows security flaws, that is. A big thank you to the LSD Research Group for spotting the kinks in the armour, and not releasing the source code over the Internet for evil hackers to prey on. If Microsoft were a car manufacturer, there’d be countless casualties, product recalls …
Zeldman reports that parent company AOL has dismantled most of Netscape in a mass-firing exercise. However, the Mozilla spirit will live on over at mozillafoundation.org. According to a press release, AOL has pledged US$2 million over the next two years to support this new independent movement. Red Hat and Sun Microsystems have also promised software …
The latest Netcraft survey is out. Apache has increased its market (server) share by 0.56% to 63.72%, while Microsoft has fallen 0.90% to 25.95% overall. More details here. In more bad news for Microsoft, eight major players have formed an alliance with Linux for consumer electronic devices. Sony, Matsushita (parent of Panasonic), Hitachi, NEC, Sharp, …
As Sheryl has mentioned, mobile phone users in Singapore now have the freedom to switch telcos without paying a levy. It’s definitely about time the IDA did something about levies! Seven years ago, UK telco customers were already retaining their numbers at no charge. Which goes to prove that you don’t just need the technology; …
They called OS 10.2 Jaguar. And the latest version? What else, but Panther (press release). I’m now wondering what version 10.4 will be called. How about Cheetah? Since we keep on stealing glances at sleek-bodied Macs, scheming to get our hands on one. Or Hyena. Together with its behemoth G5 processors, the folks at Apple …
Microsoft is involved in another big legal battle, but this time I’m on their side. The company estimates that more than 80 percent of the more than 2.5 billion e-mail messages sent each day to Hotmail users are spam. It now blocks most of those spam messages.
The NYTimes reports that Microsoft has agreed to pay AOL Time Warner US$750 million in compensation and grant them licence to integrate more fully with the Windows operating system where browsers and instant messaging are concerned. Of course, the settlement amount pales in comparison to the price AOL paid for Netscape in 1999 – US$10 …