Why won’t WiMAX just stay dead ? Clearwire is adding about 41million people to its coverage. Hopefully for them the basestations can be converted to LTE.
Nintendo’s profit dropped for the first time in 6 years from $2.79B to $2.44B, mostly from a drop on Wii sales. This isn’t exactly good news but it isn’t doom either, lets see how the 3DS works for them.
On “piracy” news, a Dutch study says file sharers spend more on media than rest of the crowd. The Songwriters Guild of America apparently would someone burglarize their homes than share their music. Either that or they don’t actually believe media sharing is worse than actual, physical, property theft. And Canada got upset about being on the same class as China and Russia on copyright infringement matters. And on “protecting the children”, the peeping tom US school says photographing students in their privacy is actually an IT procedure failure.
And on “security” news, some airport screener somehow got on a naked scanner and his colleagues noticed he has a tiny penis. As a result he got somewhat upset after a year of teasing and decided to beat up one of them. But remember, there’s nothing to fear from the naked scanners, your privacy is safe guarded.
This week the Pope is coming to Portugal so I decided to throw this in, listening to “faith healers” actually turns you dumb.
Remember kids, Facebook sucks and Facebook is evil.
The big splash this week was HP buying Palm. My first reaction was, that’s the end of it, but as stuff started coming up about HP canceling the Slate I changed my mind to mild optimism. On the same week MS killed the non existing Courier which implies HP somehow pulled out of the deal. Meanwhile, Apple sells one million iPads.
Microsoft in one swoop took the bat to Flash by supporting HTML5 on IE9 and to Firefox by only supporting H.264. Microsoft basically sees a bright future full on Silverlight and IE9 while trying to ignore Chrome exists.
Back in 2007 the Danish Anti Piracy Group was talking in Sweden and went on at length about how the anti piracy guys think child pornography is great. The logic behind it is, as I explained before, child porn is a strawman the RIAAs can use to force Governments into passing general censorship laws. They intend(ed) to use child porn to show filtering works and then once the Giant Firewall is established they take control of it and start doing whatever they feel like. Meanwhile, don’t feel sad for the music industry as revenue grew on piraty markets. The IFPI points out the growth in South Korea and Sweden but forgets to mention Mexico, Australia and Brazil.
Nokia announced the N8 which is pretty solid hardware. Sadly, as Nokia is ever more confused, it will run Symbian^3. Meanwhile, Qt moves along with a new development environment and promise of MeeGo and Symbian source compatibility. And to great shock to some people Apple is now the largest US phone maker overtaking, even more shockingly, Motorola.
HTC can’t get a break. Now Microsoft says Android infringes on its patents and the Taiwan guys cut a licensing deal with the devil^WMicrosoft. Google better start to put some weight into this is with IP insurance on Android or manufacturers will be scared away.
Remember kids, Facebook sucks so check up on what Facebook reveals about you.
