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Serious Privacy Concerns Taint MS Media Player

Once Microsoft (if it ever does) clears its baffles of the Security problem, the next issue that will plague them is Privacy. The arrogance displayed by the thoughtless program manager quoted below is exemplary of why Microsoft still just doesn’t get it. Combine...

A Fitting Eulogy for BeOS..

..will of course be written by a District Court Judge in the great city of San Francisco. The BeOS community, now washed up on the shore of a nearby deserted island, can watch the captain of their soon-to-be-scuttled ship attempt to extract some sense of pride as he...

World Economic Forum: Out with a Whimper.

http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/020205/0205davoswrap_1.html Tuesday February 5, 6:00 pm Eastern Time Forbes.com Davos Slips Out Of Town Quietly By Todd Jatras It was billed as one of the hottest tickets in the world, but the World Economic Forum and its 2,700 delegates barely...

Spam: How do I hate thee…

Tuesday February 05 04:00 PM EST Only worthy of forwarding because of the JMM statistic: 1,400 pieces of spam per day! -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/cn/20020205/tc/net_surfers_set_out_to_squelch _spam_1.html Net surfers set out to squelch spam By...

AOL Linux?

AOL might be buying Red Hat. This is probably the clearest shot across the bow of our friends in Redmond. Not only could AOL be a trojan horse to deploy Linux on to desktop PCs, but AOL would be purchasing yet another of Microsoft’s died-in-the-wool enemies. I...