OSX Lion was released and Apple keeps raking in the dough. Meanwhile Nokia turns into SE.
Hell freezes over as Baidu licenses music from US label.
As Borders dies Amazon comes up with textbook rentals and B&N offer 30 free ebooks to switch.
A Finnish ISP won’t block traffic while OSCE says getting disconnected is disproportionate
You know you’re having a bad day when your insurer sues to get out of liability.
Microsoft is confused about tablets. No big surprise there. They can always count on becoming a patent troll, the way of fading companies.
Nearly all homes in France are pirating. At least that’s what the HADOPI rent-a-cops claim. Either that or they’re just making stuff up.
Slow week eh ?
FB announced something with Skype just like MySpace did. Google dropped Twitter and FB blocked G+. Social Wars time people.
Funny thing happened, Spannish RIAA got raided on “fraud, misappropriation of funds and disloyal administration.”. Damn it feels good to be a pirate. Meanwhile EU is all up in arms about Patriot Act but the Italian FTC decided they have censor power which seems to be something like what the 6 large US ISPs will be doing.
Both Microsoft and Cisco are both on the helping China game.
Google launched Google+. Which is, in a nutshell, not Facebook. They promise you can keep things nice even after all the idiots join in. And to keep you calm a rag tag band of Google devs released Takeout so you can do what Facebook doesn’t let you.
The reviews of TouchPad started showing up. Not raving great but seems to me this thing has a better shot at iPad than android tabs.
Remember that messaging service Nokia had ? It’s not Nokia anymore. I’m not exactly sure how the vulcanized rubber business is this days but judging by Nokia’s recent moves it’s probably great.
Microsoft UK reminds us giving your data to companies with USA branches makes it fair game for USA judicial and extrajudicial processes even if it’s hosted in EU servers. And about the same time USA is trying to extradite a British citizen for doing something that’s most likely legal in UK. I’m still trying to figure out what’s to terrorist as privateering is to piracy.
