IE has steadily lost market share over the last two years ...
Techflash puts as nice a spin on the situation as Microsoft could want, babbling on about Vista 7 and wonderful "experiences". Robert Pogson astutely notices the growing difference between Net Applications and everyone else's data,
NetApplications hides its sample and indeed has just made the umpteenth wiggle to their data-analysis to try to keep that other OS over 90% share on the desktop… Clearly, they are not operating in the same universe [as wikipedia] with such divergent results.
As a perhaps unintended consequence of Domscheit-Berg's sabotage of Wikileaks, a large collection of US cables has leaked without the Wikileaks redaction to remove names of individuals. The person Snorrason who is quoted as blaming this on Wikileaks itself is one of Domscheit-Berg's associates.
AFACT and MPAA worked hard to get Village Roadshow and the Seven Network to agree to be the public Australian faces on the case to make it clear there are Australian equities at stake, and this isn’t just Hollywood “bullying some poor little Australian ISP.” ...
AFACT/MPAA have hired Australia's top copyright lawyer, Michael Williams of Gilbert & Tobin, to represent them in this case. Williams, well-known to the Mission and highly respected in the Australian legal community, was the lawyer behind the successful Cooper and Kazaa IPR cases in Australia. ... Ellis did not want to begin by tangling with Telstra, Australia's former telecom monopoly and still-dominant player in telephony and internet, and a company with the financial resources and demonstrated willingness to fight hard and dirty, in court and out.)
As usual, if you actually fight, you win.
The agency overseeing the remains of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seeks billions of dollars in compensation from banks ... including Bank of America, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, as early as Friday.
PJ calls out The Register and Microsoft in this latest round of FUD, intentionally not linked.
Perchance Metz forgot to mention the Microsoft connection? Well, that's what Groklaw is for. Here's some background on who is really behind all this Google-smear/accusation nonsense. Note that Google has pointed out that Foundem is backed by ICOMP, an organization funded largely by Microsoft. I don't know about you, but I'm mighty sick of Microsoft's Machiavellian ways.
Any advertiser that hands me Foundem, Bing, Yahoo or any other Microsoft related promotion has failed.
Our Linux expert, Joe Brockmeier (known in the Linux community as Zonker) said that Intel and Nokia have "done everything entirely wrong, from start to finish" when it came to MeeGo. They put obstacles in the way for developers and innovation was hampered. When Moblin and Maemo were merged, the Linux community was not entirely behind the move and developers were discouraged from making changes that were not under the thumb of either Intel or Nokia. ... MeeGo was supposed to be Intel's way to tie an operating system to a chip and create a device line that would be entirely Atom. ... was designed as a response to mobile devices not supporting Intel's Atom line of mobile processors.
Nokia should have run with ARM and Maemo when they had the market to themselves. Listening to Intel was fatal.
US and other ISPs that block or slow encrypted traffic are no better.
It is one thing to cause a stolen computer to report its IP address or its geographical location in an effort to track it down. It is something entirely different to violate federal wiretapping laws by intercepting the electronic communications of the person using the stolen laptop.
The company was obviously staffed by bored people looking for titillation. That they occasionally catch thieves is no assurance that they won't be spying on other people, such as this inadvertent receiver of stolen property, or the laptop's owner. Non free software always has the power to spy and can not be trusted.
The first duty of social software is to improve its users' social experience. Facebook's longstanding demand that its users should only have one identity is either a toweringly arrogant willingness to harm people's social experience in service to doctrine; or it is a miniature figleaf covering a huge, throbbing passion for making it easier to sell our identities to advertisers. Google has adopted the Facebook doctrine at the very moment in which the figleaf slipped, when people all over the world are noticing that remaking ancient patterns of social interaction to conform to advertising-driven dogma exposes you to everything from humiliation at school to torture in the cells of a Middle Eastern despot. There could be no stupider moment for Google to subscribe to the gospel of Zuckerberg, and there is no better time for Google to show us an alternative.
The documents also reveal that the mobile backscatter machines cannot be American National Standards Institute “certified people scanners” because of the high level of radiation output and because subjects would not know they have been scanned.
So great is the perceived threat to medical research that a group of American doctors and scientists have issued a protest saying: "The use of patents or exorbitant licensing fees to prevent physicians and clinical laboratories from performing genetic tests limits access to medical care, jeopardizes the quality of medical care, and unreasonably raises its cost." Once a patent has been issued on a drug or discovery, scientists must pay outrageous licensing fees in order to do further research in the given area, thus preventing the development of cures due to lack of funding.
Sarkozy believes that the right to an intellectual monopoly - the right to *exclude* people from knowledge - is absolutely equal to the fundamental right to freedom. ... Sarkozy seems to regard supporting his fat-cat chums in the copyright industries as more important that truly helping the broader culture French culture, or even - heaven forfend - supporting universal ideals like freedom.
In addition to getting police involved in minor file-sharing cases, CIAPC are also sending out pre-settlement letters to alleged infringers. In 2010 the group sent out around 100 letters and have promised to double that in 2011.
Music is the target of this extortion but the laws apply equally to journals and other more serious material.
Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might. ... Höffner has researched that early heyday of printed material in Germany and reached a surprising conclusion -- unlike neighboring England and France, Germany experienced an unparalleled explosion of knowledge in the 19th century. ... The market for scientific literature didn't collapse even as copyright law gradually became established in Germany in the 1840s. German publishers did, however, react to the new situation in a restrictive way reminiscent of their British colleagues, cranking up prices and doing away with the low-price market.
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Jose_X
2011-09-05 22:14:54
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-09-06 01:15:44