5 month ago
nelson : iTunes blocks Palm Pre - when is that anti-trust investigation starting?
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deusx : Why ‘too big to fail’ is too much for us to take - "There should be a clear distinction in public policy between the requirement for essential activities to survive and the continued existence of particular companies engaged in their provision."
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26 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Yahoo! and the future of the Internet: uh... google coming to our defense? not quite.
nelson : Google fights back - David Drummond raises anti-trust issues with IM and email
Linkorama : Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services?
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31 month ago
nelson : Tiger Woods launch bug - New Xbox 360 game crashes, and EA knew when they launched it. "EA bugs: it's in the game"
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Google Buys DoubleClick - It isn't about Evil anymore, it is about anti-trust of a darling
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft is Dead - Microsoft is Dead: I love it when Paul stirs the pot. :-)
Linkorama : Microsoft is Dead - In a bubble people have no fear, in a conversation bubble less so
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft is dead - By Paul Graham
nelson : Microsoft is Dead - It's not quite true, but it's a good essay
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Un-universal service - AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, Qwest Blocking Telephone Numbers such as Freeconference.com
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41 month ago
Linkorama : The socialization of Sharepoint - This is Scott McNealy’s line. As Scott’s speechwriter, I included it in many of his speaking points (I say included because I didn’t write it, nor did I write most of his legendary Microsoft quips).
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43 month ago
Linkorama : Zune Social Music - Tom Coates pointed out this obvious at Future of Web Apps: Apple has iPod and a Store, but there is this social stuff in between. But DRM is anti-social.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Monopoly is moving towards using Debit cards rather than multicoloured cash - I wonder how many years we are away from a cashless Monopoly board, and whether we'll get there before we do so in the real world...
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50 month ago
Rod Begbie : Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go - 'DRM-protected files exclusively released through iTunes ... appear in unprotected form on P2P networks 180 seconds later'. Well, that makes screwing your honest customers worthwhile. [via] #
deusx : Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go - "We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist. We need to keep the number of licensees down to a manageable number. We charge a license fee to keep the number of people we have to deal with down to a level we can handle."
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51 month ago
plasticbag : Alternative Monopoly rules put an entirely different perspective on the game! - Monopoly hacks to make the games more interesting. I love the idea of joining together two boards to make a figure of eight...
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51 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft Buys Yahoo? - Yahoo options in demand amid Microsoft speculation.
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53 month ago
Linkorama : Telco Thinking - Three years ago we used to have this as the focus of conversation. Sadly, this threat is of little interest when busy with W2.0, even though it might end it.
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53 month ago
Linkorama : Windows Live - Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient :-)
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55 month ago
kellan : Verizon edges towards service discrimination - This is *exactly* what we are worried about when the access providers start climbing the food chain - discrimination against competing services. Which maybe wouldn't be so bad, except that those access providers got their network in the first place as a l #
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