Week In Review 2012W08
Ubuntu for Android. I’m not sure what to make of this. Playbook 2.0 was released. Both users were pleased. Mozilla is making a Boot2Gecko phone with LG.
MWC started and the floodgates of crazy are open.
Facebook continues the plan to become federal internet ID. It goes with even more ads pretending your friends are promoting brands.
Motorola got push email on iOS via an injunction. I don’t remember Motorola ever inventing anything remotely like email let alone push email so I find this well, stupid.
SONY says it’s not them pulling down youtube videos, it’s the RIAAs which is probably true cause recordings of wild birds are taken down on copyright allegations going to prove the whole system is rotten. Which in turn isn’t much of a surprise considering being involved in tax or finance crime is almost a requirement to be a RIAA.
UK keeps up the warrantless fight against terrorism/child abuse/piracy/things with more IngSoc. India won’t be outdone though.
A Dutch Minister ACTA is only about fighting child abuse and nothing to with piracy. Yes, this is the people making our laws. Not being dutch I can’t tell if he’s a liar or an idiot. Luckily someone is still paying attention in the EU and ACTA got sent to the Court of Justice. Meanwhile, in Canada the people trying to ram ACTA and everything else through parliament were caught in election fraud.
All he wanted was to watch Game of Thrones and now he’s a filthy pirate.
