Mac Users' Security Smugness Set To Roll On For A While Yet
Published Saturday, October 21, 2006 by Technology Monster.| But hey, a little Mac smack talk always makes for good headlines, as bloggers around the world have figured out, and there's no better way to rile up the fanboys (and generate some traffic) than to suggest that maybe the Mac isn't quite as secure as the legion of smug Mac users would like to think. The tipping point where Mac market share makes it fruitful for virus writers to target Macs remains quite a ways off -- and ultimately, it's probably out of Apple's reach. |
1.2 Million Libyan Kids With Laptops
Published Friday, October 13, 2006 by Technology Monster.| (via David Weinberger) Libya has become the fourth country to make a sizeable order of the $100 laptop to the tune of $250 million. Interesting vision here: It is possible that Libya will be the first nation in the world to connect all of its children to the Web via computers provided by schools, Negroponte said, according to the Times. Second, I would ask what does it say about our commitment to our children in this country if we are not the first to connect all of its children to the Internet? |
Falsely Accusing Your Customers Of Software Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime
Published Friday, October 06, 2006 by Technology Monster.| For much of its lifetime, Microsoft has figured out that it can build an incredibly profitable business on software sales without being too stringent on copy protection techniques. It's nice to think that you can boost your bottom line by turning pirated copies into sales -- but if it also means making life difficult for many legitimate users and weakening your ability to be the defacto platform, it seems like there may be some additional costs that Microsoft hasn't yet factored in. |
One Way To Get Past Slow WiFi Standards Processes: Guarantee You'll Upgrade Hardware
Published Wednesday, October 04, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Glenn Fleishman is pointing out that vendor ASUS has announced today a way around this stalemate: a promise to upgrade any equipment bought this year to the final standard. Historically, companies often say that they'll upgrade the firmware, but they can't guarantee the hardware will be compatible with the final standard (though, it may well be). However, by guaranteeing that they'll upgrade the hardware as well, it takes most of the worries out of the upgrade issue. |
In A Twist, Now DVD Jon Wants To Give You More DRM
Published Tuesday, October 03, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Apple's famously refused to let anybody else put their DRM'ed content on iPods outside a very small circle -- leading some companies like RealNetworks to try and reverse-engineer FairPlay on their own to make iPods compatible with their music services -- while it also refuses to license the technology to hardware manufacturers so it can control what devices consumers use to play back media it sells. |
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