Except for Robert Scoble, and of course Jason Calacanis, most of the commentary I see about Google is that their search position is unassailable. Considering how relatively young they are as a company, and how they sprang from nowhere to command a market that others thought could not be taken I don’t know why people would consider this to be true. Google won against the geeks favorite Alta Vista (helped by DEC mismanagment) and the force of Microsoft’s entry to the Internet (helped by the poor strategy of trying to create a separate web). It needs a good idea and excellent execution to take a market from an established and dominant player, or some mis-steps from the establishment.
As all of you that have been reading for a while remember the past two years I have traversed the halls of CES looking for the coolest gadgets. Andy McCaskey from Slashdot Review and yours truly are once again on the hunt for a sponsor to the show.
I have been asking people I meet that have an iPhone what they think about the latest movements by Apple to keep the iPhone locked down tight. Most have responded that they really are not happy with Apple!
Linus Torvalds has apparently been frustrated with the collective approach to producing code, with a group of security researchers. According to the security researchers nothing less than perfect security is acceptable, and they believe that having multiple security options means that a security module manager (LSM) cannot be removed, which is a theoretical security hole.
R&D magazine has posted its list of the top 10 inventions of 2007, and there is some really cool stuff going on out there. My favorite by far is the biomedical sensor, which can take some blood tests without taking your blood. You just touch it to the skin and it can detect the levels of compounds in the blood
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Declan McCullagh from CNet has dug up an interesting FCC filing from a DC freelance writer. Gail Mortenson has requested the FCC to mandate e-mail portability, meaning that if you switched email provider they would be forced to forward any emails to your new email address. As if email doesn’t sometimes already have trouble getting through clogged relays and spam filters, just imagine if your email was coming through a number of forwarding services, all of them under the control of companies you had told where to shove their email.
I was working on a reply piece to an article on Publishing 2.0 that claims that Facebook has no use for business. I absolutely disagree with this and while I was listing out the reasons why a Facebook style platform would be brilliant in a business situation (found on BusinessGeek if you are interested), two things popped into my head
I have made no secret of my opinion that DRM does nothing to limit illegal copying. Non-circumvention and usability are incompatible goals. What DRM does is seriously inconvenience users. The nefarious can get around whatever is there, and the honest user gets their use of the product compromised.
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