Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Today Google Video offered a full refund after [initially announcing](http://www.marklectic.com/2007/08/11/google-gets-bored-selling-videos-customers-screwed/) that customers would only get a Google Checkout credit. According to the story on [Ars Technica](http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/146540536/20070821-google-video-store-gets-stay-of-execution-full-refunds-coming.html), "Google has seen the error of its ways and is effectively doubling refunds for customers of its video store. The company also said it ...
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Google launched Google Videos a year ago and started selling TV episodes and other videos. It was never very popular and, even then, there were complaints about Google's use of Digital Restrictions Management technologies applied to the videos you bought.
Well now it seems Google has become bored with being in ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
The pundits are all a-buzz about Safari on Windows and wondering why Apple would do it.
Personally, I think it's really obvious why Apple has done it and its not about switchers or browser market share, it's about the iPhone.
The other announcement Steve jobs made during the WWDC keynote was that ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Wow. I've been in the IT industry for over ten years and one of the things I've learned is that strong companies compete and weak companies sue.
Microsoft's sabre rattling over possible patent violations in Linux and other open source software is incredible because of what it says about Microsoft. ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Today, the [FSF](http://www.fsf.org/) released the [latest draft of the GPLv3](http://gplv3.fsf.org/). The reported reason for the delay is to deal with the Novel/Microsoft deal. I.e., making explicit that if you distribute GPL licensed code, you are not allowed to sue people for patent violations implemented in that code.
A lot of people ...
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