From a Microsoft Mac Business Unit worker comes a behind-the-scene blog post titled Saying goodbye to Visual Basic

It starts like this: “Well, its been less than two days since the MacBU announced that Visual Basic is being removed from the next version of Mac Office. The news has created quite a firestorm on [...]

From the OpenDarwin web site:

OpenDarwin Shutting Down

OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a
development environment for building and developing mac os X
sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative.
OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving
ground for fixes and features for mac os X and Darwin, which [...]

As noted a few days ago, Slim Devices has introduced an audiophile’s dream called Transporter, the most advanced networked audio system currently available anywhere.

With serious technical improvement over the already good Squeezebox, Transporter’s sound quality surpasses that of even the most sophisticated high-end compact disc players. It also offers a broad range of options not [...]

Ars technica has posted a great in-depth article called “Hacking Digital Rights Management”; it provides both an historical overview of DCM and some predictions about the future.

Like a creeping fog, DRM smothers more and more media in its clammy embrace, but the sun still shines down on isolated patches of the landscape. This isn’t always [...]

PAT’S CLAIM TO FAME # 249: I was one of the first reporters to cover Slim Devices’ Squeezebox’ predecessor, SliMP3.

Not much, you may say? Well, that’s just so that you know I’ve been a BIG fan of Slim’s designs from the original, project-board-soldered-on-the-kitchen-table era.

I’m a big fan today, and a happy fan at that, because [...]

From IEEE Spectrum Online:

“That the world is awash in fake goods comes as no surprise to anyone who’s ever strolled the streets of a major city and seen a gauntlet of sidewalk hawkers selling knockoff clothes and pirated motion pictures. But in recent years a less visible but no less insidious component of the illicit [...]