Archive for April, 2006

Markey Amendment Shot Down!

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Telecommunications giants scored a victory over Net Neutrality advocates in the U.S. legislature yesterday as the proposed “Markey Amendment,” a provision to prevent Internet providers from creating access chokepoints was voted down in the House of Representatives.

Full story HERE

The amendment’s defeat has caused a firestorm of accusations against the telecom industry and the legislators [...]

The blogosphere’s growing mismatch | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
» The blogosphere’s growing mismatch

Posted by Dan Farber

Technorati’s Dave Sifry published the latest blogosphere stats based on his logs. The blogsphere is growing like a weed, over 86,000 blogs per day on average, according to Technorati data. However, the mechanisms to aggregate and filter the blogosphere are not doubling in improvements every six months–not [...]

Why Windows is less secure than Linux

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
» Why Windows is less secure than linux | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic. I have a couple of pictures. The basic argument goes like this. In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. [...]

Worst tech of 2006 (so far) - CNET.com

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I just read this cute article: Worst tech of 2006 (so far) – CNET.com

By Tim Moynihan, Michelle Thatcher, and Peter Butler (March 31, 2006)

Calling a piece of tech the “best” often starts an argument, but just about everyone knows a lemon when they see it. December is a long way away, but we couldn’t wait [...]

Apple Releases Boot Camp

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Read the whole thing at Apple – Boot Camp

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of mac os X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for [...]