Tag: rte

  • EU rules against Microsoft

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    Tom Raftery
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    I heard the breaking news on RTE this morning that the EU upheld the decision that Microsoft abused its dominant position to “freeze out rivals in server and software products”. At the end of the audio report, RTE’s Europe correspondant Sean Whelan added that Microsoft may appeal this decision. What is amazing to me about…

  • Free, clean and constant energy?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I saw a post on Pat Phelan’s blog today about Steorn which sounded a little incredible, so I looked a little deeper into it. The background is that an Irish company called Steorn put a full-page ad in the Economist saying: At Steorn we have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy….…