Category: Technology
ITworld – Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris
Oracle seems to be on a mission to destroy all of the positive things that Sun Microsystems accomplished.
MarketWatch – Oracle sues Google over intellectual property
I don’t which to think that Oracle is just insane or stupid.
TechCrunch – Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years
The ebook will be the dominant media format for books in five years.
Paul Graham – How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham on how to start a tech firm.
Ars Technica – Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn’t get the iPad
Steve Ballmer clueless on what makes the iPad such a phenomenal computing device.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
New exceptions to the DMCA, the most important of these has to be the ability to break DVD encryption for fair use.
THINQ.co.uk – TV business kisses HDMI goodbye
I always enjoy seeing less cables around my desk.
Internet Systems Consortium – ISC Praises Momentous Step Forward in Securing the Domain Name System
The root DNS server are now protected with DNSSEC providing security in ensuring that the website you are visiting is the correct and valid website.
Dustin Curtis – The Death of Files
For basic file types should we throw out the concept of a discrete file system and instead just use a database of file types and associated apps able to manipulate them.
hsivonen – -webkit-HTML5
Apple calls it open and HTML5 but it really isn’t.