The MPEG-LA says h.264 will be freebeer forever. Seem like Google won Apple’s war against Flash. This is all very confusing.

Intel seems to be buying Infineon for $2B. This is a lot of money but may actually be worth it as opposed to $7.68B for McAfee.

The modder community seems to have more sense than Nokia and Froyo is a whisker away from being useful on the N900. This will actually make it useful after Nokia goes Meego and pretends the 600 EUR flagship phone never existed.

OpenSolaris is no more. You can trust Oracle to be consistent.

The Western World is worried about the involvement of Western companies in Iran and the involvement of non Western companies in the West. This seems to be the start of the trade wars.

And cause getting your privies scanned, photographed and archived in airports wasn’t enough, the naked scanners are coming to vans in the street. But hey, ever since a highschool principal can install spying software in the student’s laptops and snap secret pics of them in their bedrooms anything goes right ?

Microsoft released stuff on WP7 Xbox Live. It’s clearly the less sucky part of the thing. Lets see how it works out. Meanwhile, MS caved to Facebook and added fb chat. Dangerous times indeed.

Google’s Net neutrality isn’t evil enough for Holywood and it’s too neutral for TimeWarner. And RIAA wants to jam filtering in cause “copyright infringement and child pornography”. Cause you know, noone wants child pornography and it’s so much easier to bundle the two together.

Meanwhile, Google is busy getting Dish into the GTV

Taking stealth pics of minors in their bedrooms is OK. Or at least that’s what FBI thinks regarding Pennsylvania peeping tom school principals. Yeah, that’s it. Won’t noone think of the children ?? We should set the RIAA on them

They’re everywhere and the want to be in your cell phone too. RIAA wants a FM radio everywhere. Betcha you believed it couldn’t get any more stupid eh ?

People claim to have jailbroken the PS3. Lets recap, PS3 gets left alone for years and a few months after Sony kills the ability to run third party OSs it gets set free again. Proof homebrewers actually exist and are much much smarter than pirates.

On a side note, Portugal made the news by having a crazy price for the iPhone4.

Big news this week was Oracle suing Google. Google has money and Larry wants it. Most likely, Oracle bought Sun just for the license racketeering. Let’s see how this works out. Google had some evilness of its own and made a joint proposal with Verizon about net unneutrality. If someone had any doubt the proposal is evil, AT&T came forward supporting it and dispelled any doubts. Hollywood, on the other hand, thinks it’s not evil enough mostly cause it makes it harder to stop content distribution over the wired Internet (oh DVDs where have you gone …).

Smartphones keep growing, Android moves ahead of iPhone globally.

Microsoft keeps having bad weeks. Preparing for the back to school onslaught they decided to put a rather defensive don’t switch to Mac campaign. Cause you know, some tuners don’t work on Macs. And some games aren’t available on Mac. Dam’n it! Don’t look at Valve. Look over here. Really! What ? Open Source in enterprise ? No, say it ain’t so.

Comic Relief: Murdoch says it owns ‘Sky’ in ‘Skype’.

Glad to know US has its priorities straight. FBI has been putting resources into “intellectual property infringement” and pulling from missing persons. They’re probably busy with people pre-suing would be bootleggers as Does 100 at a time.

RIM caved and Saudis can keep their Blackberrys. More countries will obviously follow suit.

RIM has too much AES for SA and so it’s bye-bye Blackberry in Saudi Arabia.

Firefox going 41%, IE 39% in Europe. Yes, we do know more about the internets.

Any kid with patience and USD1500 can listen to your 2G calls. Time to get with the 3G people. Meanwhile, the naked scanners scored a bunch of porn and it’s for keeps!

Washington Post believes WikiLeaks must be stopped. Seems to me they’re just pissed about amateurs doing their job. The author of the article went on to say Julien Assange is a foreigner operating out of US so the US Govt has a number of ways to deal with him. These people scare me.

Yeah so, remember Vodafone 360 ? Not anymore!

Intel may be raking it in but ARM is trucking it in. The winner with the smartphone boom ? ARM! (remember kids, the magical A8 is just another ARM).

Who knew, Oracle is taking down MS.

Macs buy lots of games. Or Macs buy the same amount of games with far far less choice.

Oh sweet irony. US Copyright Group’s website is totally stollen from a competitor. They even copied the other guy’s copyright statement.

The UK govt won’t move from IE6 cause it’s too expensive. As opposed, you know, to maintaining the reams of firewalls and IDSs you need to not be instap0wned with IE6. And kids, stay away from the 2G

Yahoo is up but didn’t impress. Apple has yet another monster quarter and almost overtook Microsoft. Meanwhile, Microsoft writes off a wad of cash on the Kin debacle and hopes to have actual Kinect games in 18 months. I guess this wasn’t their week. Did I mention HP is not going to make WindowsPhone7 stuff ?

Nokia also had some bad news with a 40% net drop compared to last year. The average unit price also went down from 64 to 61 EUR. As I explained before, when you lose the high end you’re doomed.

On the Android front, Baidu is going to ripoff android which, is actually supposed to happen.

Real live fuel cells on sale. You can even make your own hydrogen for 500 bucks.

On the ObAussieMadness, the Australian govt censors itself relating to censorship. Why don’t you guys just thrown ‘em in a cave somewhere and let them censor each other ?

Cow Clicker for the no-nonsense Facebook user. On serious news, PC gamers rule, console gamers droll.

New York Times exposes operational procedures on the Deepwater Horizon rig were beyond lax and actual bonafide Microsoft BSODs were involved in the monitoring failures.

The big thing this week was the AntennaGate. Long story short, all phones suck, free cases for everybody. Nokia took it personal and say their phones look like they’ve been hit with the ugly stick cause for Nokia antenna performance comes first. RIM just said they’ve being designing good stuff for 20y their phones don’t have the suck.

LTE SIMs from Verizon. Shiny!

Microsoft says iPhone4 might be Apple’s Vista. This is stupid cause: a) comparing your disasters to other people’s hiccups is stupid; b) they just canceled the Kin! On more Microsoft news, Infoworld reviewed Windows Phone 7 and it isn’t pretty. They pretty much confirmed my take on the UI.

Intel managed to pull nearly $3b of profit in the last quarter. That gotta be bad news for AMD. Meanwhile, Google tries to make developers irrelevant. And Motorola tries to make customers irrelevant. And against all odds, SonyEricsson turned the 2nd black quarter mostly to X10. Android to the rescue ?

On pirate news, another story about how RIAA screws musicians out of money and Canada’s DMCA minister gives up on defending DMCA. And we figured out RIAA is actually being egged on by ambulance chasing lawyers. And a UK royalty group wants ISPs to pay for … stuff.

Btw, BP says the Gulf disaster as stopped. Yeah, we don’t believe it either.

HTC is raking it in, most likely through Android fame. Meanwhile Nokia is starting to fall apart starting with the wireless modem division. And cause the world doesn’t stop for Nokia, Intel got MeeGo action on a x86 powered phone.

Google apparently sent Zynga some get-out-of-facebook money. Rather interesting development.

Brazil won’t take unnecessary DRM and just signed into law that DRM that breaks fair use is illegal. That is the exact opposite of what USA, RIAA, MPAA, ACTA and all that are trying to force on us: any fair use that breaks DRM is illegal. UK ISPs don’t like the “Digital Economy Act”. If you follow my rants this shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. Meanwhile, in supreme irony, the Australian Govt found Google guilty of privacy breach. Cause forcing a blocking-and-snooping huge firewall on the country clearly isn’t privacy breach.

From the “are we safe yet?” department, four glocks went missing from Israeli PM’s entourage checked luggage. And Islam isn’t easy going on dangling naughty bits so Dubai canned the naked scanners cause as we learned on a previous story they’re totally capable of revealing small penises and other private parts.

MeeGo for handsets is running on actual hardware. Oh well, let’s see how this pans out. Cause you see, even symbian-guru gives up.

The other, other, other Microsoft mobile thing is gone. Not much surprise there.

Google seems to be pulling out of China. It seems to be about all the new regulation about search engines.

Remember kids, UK is not a tourist friendly country. On the other hand, Finland makes broadband a legal right.

Vuvuzela symphony at BP headquarters. Meanwhile, a “BP spill” bill is making the rounds and the actual oil is making its way up Louisiana.

Meego pre-alpha for handsets is coming out June 30th and the final version is going to be done in October. That’s a whole lot of planning! And whole lot of hurt in Nokia’s future. Meanwhile, and cause while Nokia is using the N900 as the MeeGo dev platform it won’t actually support it (way to go Nokia! we love you too!) people are all busy trying to get Froyo into the N900.

A couple of European WiMAX operators close down. Why not just the pull the plug all at once ?

Microsoft surprised the world with bringing IE9 into the present with canvas, video, audio and font support. The Chakra JS engine also seems to be coming along quite zippy and canvas has HW acceleration so it might actually get useful in the future. It even gets up to 83 in ACID3 too.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers says CC, EFF and others are undermining copyright and are all around anti-american. Someone should educate this copyright wetpants crusaders about Creative Commons and Open Source Software being all about copyright. Without strong protection there wouldn’t be the GPL or Share Alike.

I remember more than 20 years ago reading about how huge fields of solar arrays in the Sahara would power us and bring pockets of shady green to the desert. Seems like now is actually going to happen with Europe lining up to import electricity from the Sahara.

Meanwhile, the Gulf gusher is still gushing and people are reporting BP is burning sea turtles alive in “controlled burns”.