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  • Steve jobs throws the cat among the pigeons!

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    I have written about DRM many times previously and what an evil, anti-consumer, scum-sucking device it is. Many of the comments on these posts disagreed with my position. I really began to doubt my thinking on DRM though when Bill Gates, speaking about DRM seemed to agree with me!: People should just buy a cd…

  • "An operating system has never had parental control features before" – Bill Gates

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    “An operating system has never had parental control features before” Bill Gates came out with this incredible statement two and a half minutes into the following interview on NBC http://www.youtube.com/v/BO1pvWUELIUReally Bill? So how do you explain this screenshot of the built-in Parental Controls on my Mac? There have been Parental Controls on the Mac for…

  • Ballmer going soon too?

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    I see Bill Gates has decided to take early retirement – I hope he has a decent pension plan in place 😉 Seriously though, this has to be good news for Microsoft. Ray Ozzie who has been named as his successor (along with Craig Mundie), is someone who has a very good name in the…

  • Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?

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    I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week. The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems. These four companies have been invited to a U.S. congressional subcommittee hearing on…

  • Microsoft 2.0? Yawn.

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    The online world is buzzing with the news of Microsoft’s conversion to Web 2.0! Tim O’Reilly is quite positive about it: Overall, leaves me with a lot of optimism that Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problems, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said: After what I…