Week In Review 2013W14
Facebook as your Android home screen. HTC is onboard. Nothing could go wrong , how could it ever go wrong.
Samsung and Mozilla build a browser, Google is forking off WebKit into blink and Opera is following Google. You look the other way and two new browser engines pop up.
I sure would like to be Samsung’s ad agency. They outspend Apple, Microsoft and HP combined.
Want to stop most of world’s tax evasion ? Stop fast and loose UK related banking. Wikileaks grade disclosure of millions of British offshore banking revealed the top 1% all hide money in British offshore territories.
No global warming no. Don’t look at that sea temperature.
In USA private corporations define criminal law which causes teenagers to go to jail for reading the newspaper, like Aaron Swartz. Speaking of which, the prosecuters on Aaron’s case claim to being harassed online. I bet it makes them want to kill themselves. And meanwhile apparently all crime in Sweden seems to have been resolved as Swedish police focus on file sharing, the DEA spreads rumors about not being able to crack iMessage, the French secret service threaten a french Wikipedia editor to remove public information from the Wikipedia and Exxon is now in charge of law enforcement.
If you had any doubt Disney is evil, Disney killed LucasArts. And speaking of crapy companies, what’s EA top priority ? Fixing SimCity DRM stupidity ? Fix the multitude of bugs ? Unlock the hidden content ? No, put a Nissan ad in the game.