Archive for October, 2006

I wrote before about the trend we’re now seeing on the Internet of centralizing services where managing user data (private, behavioral, content etc.) is involved. In that article I also mentioned how the companies offering those kinds of services will increasingly encourage users to give them and trust them with more and more of their data. Even, and indeed especially, … Continue reading

The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian reports that we’re all about to become DRM roadkill. Or, at least the people who were stupid enough to buy DRM protected music. Microsoft is setting the example and is showing everyone what corporations can do to those who buy DRM protected content. Just head on over to Microsoft’s PlaysForSure website and take a look at … Continue reading

In a previous post, I wrote about Google getting caught resetting viewer numbers on a few videos on it’s Google Video website. Prisonplanet reports that they’ve admitted to it, saying it was an error, but then did it again: Google Video has re-imposed a crass censorship policy to intentionally stifle the growth of Alex Jones’ Terror Storm documentary and prevent … Continue reading

On the picture above, you can see Bill Gates during happier days, or at least, what he thought were happy days. As you may be able to recall, Gates posed for that picture when Windows XP went gold. That was, as you can see on the picture, 62 days before the launch of Windows XP. Microsoft had introduced their Product … Continue reading

Actually, FireFox security probably isn’t getting worse, but what may be happening is that people are now beginning to wake up to, and find, the security vulnerabilities in the software. When FireFox first became available, everyone seemed to believe the hype that it was the most secure browser available. As a result, many people started using it, thinking all of … Continue reading