Archive for August 28th, 2009
When the Free Software Foundation scores a hit, it’s usually a home run. This one literally hasn’t landed yet. Their latest campaign, Windows 7 Sins, is a brutal, gloves-are-off-now attack on Microsoft’s well-known monopolistic and anti-consumer tactics. Some of them are pretty damning. I’ll go through each of the 7 sins and reply with my take on [ READ MORE ]
The Blade has a recent entry on the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The FCC inquired about the rejection to all three companies involved: Apple, Google, and AT&T (which has an exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone in the US market). The interesting part here is the reaction from each company. AT&T denies any [ READ MORE ]
A recent UPI story details the case of Mark Guard, charged with stealing electricity in London. The taxpayers will have to pay over £5,000 (US$8,200) for the two separate hearings before the case was dropped. Mark was filming a documentary about crime and the homeless. During the filming squatters entered a vacant building, setting off a [ READ MORE ]