Two cellphone related stories caught my attention recently which together showed how consumer unfriendly the telcos really are. Both stories involved AT&T, now the largest cellphone network in the U.S.
The first story was actually all the stories covering the upcoming spectrum auction and Google’s announcement that they would bid at least $4.6Billion even if the [...]
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The release of the Safari 3 beta triggered another one of my pet peeves. Beta software - or software labeled as beta - being treated as production software. This pet peeve is typically triggered by public betas but “invitation” betas can trigger it too.
Wikipedia defines a beta software release as:
A beta version is the first [...]
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Microsoft made news again this week when Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s top lawyer were quoted in Fortune. The tone of the article is that Microsoft will go after open source software users for royalties, From the Fortune article:
Microsoft counters that it is a matter of principle. “We live in a world where we honor, and [...]
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My first reaction was this was a new low for our legal system. But after reading the article I realized it’s still on the fringes and that system seems ready to laugh them out of court, should they decide to go there.
Two companies (one is a subsidiary of the other, so just one bonehead decision [...]
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I had more first experience with BlueHost customer service over the weekend and it was an excellent experience. They’d recently been advertising “unlimited domains”. My control panel still showed the old limit of domains and when I tried to add a sixth I received and error that I’d reached the limit. So I opened [...]
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The OS Quest trail Log #26: Microsoft Edition
There wasn’t much forward movement on the Quest this week as my day job tended to take up all my time. I did add some disk to my Windows Home Server and began ripping some DVDs and moving other files to it. The only software update was a very minor update to iPhoto.
On the [...]
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