I had slacked off reading some of the latest news, so I missed some of the events going on. I particularly missed that a major protest had been going on near Wall Street, and more particularly has received a lack of coverage by the news media. If anyone needs evidence of the perils of corporate-owned [...]
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Recently, I posted about Dylan M and his sudden unexplained loss of his Google account. The aftermath of the story is given in a follow up to the previous article on Consumerist. While it is nice to see a happy ending, the truth as to why Dylan had his account locked in the first place [...] (NOTE: in the time it took me to get this post ready for publication, Dylan did get his access restored. I will be following up with the conclusion of the story, which raises more points for discussion than I wanted to add to this post.) I have been cautious with regard to the new wave [...] A recent osnews.com story chronicles Google’s troubles with its music store project. From the article: Sadly, however, rumour has it the negotiations with the music industry have been so frustrating, Google is contemplating abandoning the entire project altogether. This has led some to wonder – why doesn’t Google, or a consortium of technology companies, just [...] Even though this is over a month old, this is a story I really wanted to discuss. Techcrunch covered a story in 2010 December about Google and its increasing tendency to serve up links to its own properties in search results, which is particularly noticeable in regards to searches for local businesses (such as the [...] Mashable recently reported on a Google Maps user that was injured while following walking directions from the site, and later sued Google and both the driver of the vehicle that hit her. Lauren Rosenberg used her Blackberry to get this set of directions in Park City, UT which include an 0.6 mile stretch on Deer [...] Normally I relish the opportunity to roast large companies like Google and hold them accountable. In this case, however, no sane person can possibly side with Google’s opponent, the Italian government, in this case. This TechCrunch story links to a post on the official Google blog which describes a situation where three Google employees were [...] As summarized in FSF’s open letter to Google, there is a strong case for Google releasing the VP8 video codec acquired from their purchase of On2 Technologies. I agree with most of what is in this open letter from the FSF. However, I have some doubt that VP8 will be a better choice than Theora [...] |
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