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I have posted on BusinessGeek about SCO’s latest fun and games in declaring bankruptcy. I don’t believe they are ignorant of the fact that doing so won’t protect them from paying Novell, you cannot protect money that doesn’t rightfully belong to you. It is also unlikely to be a tactic to turn the tide in their ongoing law suits.
With both of the boards approving it, and now with no opposition from US regulators, the Acer acquisition of Gateway will go ahead. In my opinion this is a huge deal for the corporate PC market. Acer has some significant competitive advantages. It’s Taiwan base puts its very close to the major component manufacturers, in fact it is itself a huge producer of components to the other PC vendors through both its OEM business and it’s Benq brand.
There is a great video on YouTube explaining the downside of modern copyright law using the story of a very famous drum loop called the Amen Break. The video is called Amen Brother. It is 18 minutes long so be warned, but if you want to skip to the explanation of why current copyright law hurts the economy rather than encourages it, this part starts at 14:46. If even that is too long I’ll provide a summary.
Back to normal show lengths here. This show is packed from end to end and I talk a little bit about my iPhone unlocking experience and T-Mobile Edge Slowness Sponsors: Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Twitter Me http://www.twitter.com/geeknews My Facebook
Well I understand why Sprint and Verizon are kicking the heck out of both AT&T and T-Mobile when it comes to connection speeds. This afternoon I had the chance to put AT&T and T-Mobile head to head on their respective Edge Networks with the iPhone.
Ars Technica reports today that UPnP has been approved by the easy to remember ISO/IEC JTC 1 (International Standards Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 in case you were wondering) as an official standard. As part of the article they discuss how Microsoft has addressed some of the “security flaws” that were in the original implementation.
Quite Literally my team at RawVoice has been burning the midnight oil to get two products into full production and out of Beta testing. As of very late tonight two new products have been put into full production.
It is possibly a blogging faux-pas to link to a blog entry on another site that links back to an entry on this site. Especially when I have written all 3 posts, but I expanded a little on my previous Sun post on BusinessGeek. I have gone more in depth into the Brand equity implications and a basic financial analysis of Sun’s ability to compete. If phrases like “Brand equity”, “Gross Margin” and “Cost of Sale” make you yawn reflexively, this article may not be your cup of tea.
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Sun has been in trouble for a number of years. While they make good product and have good services, the market and value of their core product has declined significantly in relation to Intel servers. All of the Unix market has declined, but other players that had other businesses to prop the Unix segment up (notable IBM and HP) were able to cope better. Sun’s strategy for a long time was to avoid caving in to commodity hardware and operating systems. Java, N1 and thin client (to name a few) were strategies to drive the decision away from the platform where they could compete better. As were strategic relationships with the likes of Oracle. And Sun arguably did a better job than any other company in capatalising on the Internet boom, which cave them a significant war chest of money and customers.
I upgraded to Office 2007 a few weeks ago and have decided that was a big mistake. I am now looking at pulling Office 2007 off the machine and downgrading to Office 2003.
If Google wants to really make Google Reader sizzle they can add RSS feeds to the Google Reader Search results. I would like a RSS feeds for the searches I do on my own Google Reader feed list. This way I can subscribe to search results of the 1000 or so feeds I am subscribed to.
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