Week In Review 46W2009
Google bought Gizmo5. That pretty much butters the rollout of GoogleVoice with full PSTN connectivity. Someone should be very afraid about now.
Samsung is dropping Symbian for their own stuff. Or then again, Samsung isn’t dropping Symbian. They wuve everybody!
Turns out the only people who apparently artists don’t lose with file sharing. Artists are doing great with all the extra publicity and exposure to their music. So RIAA, if you really love your artists, endorse music sharing!
And on Democracy news, Brazil held a 3 day public hackfest on their evoting machines and they held up. So we learn two things from this, 1) the voting machines used in Brazil are far superior than the ones used in the USA 2) Brazil is serious about democracy as opposed to the USA. For comparison, USA employs voting machines with pathetic security and which seem to include result tampering features out of the box.
And on more silly copyright, the RIAA shut down the free WiFi in Coshocton, Ohio cause allegedly someone downloaded something they allegedly didn’t have the rights to. RIAA doesn’t like artists! (see above).
