Before you get any trans-gendered ideas here (or at least images of chicks in school uniforms) running through your head, hear me out.
As some of you may know Wired has had a Japanese schoolgirl watch for the past few years.  While the schoolgirls over in Tokyo may not always be onto something terribly cool, it’s […]

One of the boys from Redmond is attempting to school Apple on security breaches in OS X and how they respond.
He’s under the impression that Microsoft has a stirling reputation for quick response to security threats.  And here I thought their standard method was to ignore them entirely unless they had a fix on hand.
If […]

Turns out that the EC is just as baffled as we are on Microsoft’s latest press release concerning regulatory compliance.  Their shouting of “source code” and “free support” to the press apparently goes over about as well as a lead zepplin.
It turns out that “documented protocol” does mean the same thing on the other side […]

Dan’s once again assaying the “hierarchical top down media of old” (paraphrased) from his glossy light and fiber driven seat on the web.
Things seem to be leavening out in the media industry on the whole. Paper made it extremely easy to get into publishing the first time around, and cheap paperback novels were disruptive […]

Instead of providing proper documentation, Microsoft is once again trying to offer something else in liu of what they’re required to by their court verdict in the EU.
So instead of providing proper technical documentation on their server exchange formats, they’re offering unlimited technical support for free to organizations that (err…) license their protocols.  So all […]

Tom Cruise?   Why on earth would a tech company with a focus on online portal building like Yahoo! bring out Tom Cruise to speak to it’s employees?
Maybe they’ve just got a thing for scientologists.  Or have some on staff in the higher ups.  Spreading like cancer, no doubt…
Anyway I just can’t fathom the reasoning behind […]

Interesting quarters are attempting to open up DRM.  The French don’t seem to believe you should be tied in to any particular media type or forced to use files you’ve purchased in particular ways.  They’ve got some draft legislation that’s going before their upper house that will force sellers of music in France to interoperate […]

Hey, whadya know, actual North East news.  MobileLime has gotten a round of funding for it’s scheme to put a wireless payment device in everyones palm… via their cell phone of course.
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Just finished reading someone whining on digg about this one.  Apparently people are a little confused about what carrier neutrality means.
To set the story straight, we’re talking about providers giving equal priority to packets routed over there network and not biasing based on some “extra hidden fee” charged to the sender of said packets outside […]

With the ongoing war on the citizenry of the United States by vested rights holding interests (not all rights holding interests, mind, just a few nasty ones.  See: RIAA, MPAA, BSA) they’ve declared that their right to protect their IP is more important than your continued ability to draw breath.
Lemme run that by you one […]