In an article as fascinating for its location (Business 2.0) as its content, the author suggests that Intuit's act of contrition (dropping their cumbersome activation codes) may be an indicator to Microsoft and the studios in Hollywood that they should be thinking about user's rights if they want …

An article in Rolling Stone brings up some interesting points about the Apple's new music service. Among them: at the current rate of sales, more money is made at retail selling Vinyl records than Apple will give to the music companies (although the stats are interesting, because I can't …

An article from CNET describes the reactions of Red Hat, HP, Microsoft, and Sun to the claims by SCO that Former-AT&T IP was stolen and infused into Linux. Each company reacted a bit differently: HP claims there are no grounds for the suit and that it is a …

An article from the Adrenaline Vault ponders the effect of gaming in the workplace on productivity and argues that it may help, rather than hurt.

A school in the UK has sent a letter to parents telling them that they are not welcome at the upcoming Sports Day at the school. An article from BBC News indicates that the headmistress claims that having the parents standing by can be embarrassing for the students and may …

In an interesting analogy, PeopleSoft's president and CEO Craig Conway has compared Microsoft's .NET technology to the naturally-occurring substance that seemed to be a very promising heat shield and insulator until it was found to cause severe lung trouble and was labeled one of the more toxic substances that …

It didn't take long for people to start writing editorials about the Microsoft-SCO connection in trying to get you to stop using OpenSource software. Check out the article from CNET.

Cloudmark, makers of a hot anti-spam product have announced that they are finally starting to charge a monthly fee for their service. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, especially as a product goes from beta to final release. However, testers and the media claim (as in this article from CNET …

NASA's TetrUSS fluid dynamics simulation software is now released for the Macintosh. Even if you aren't interested in the package itself, the comments on "Why MacOS X?" are nice to see.

In an effort to fight fraud, banks in the UK are rolling out a pilot program to defeat credit card cloning (where you make a copy of the credit card by duplicating the data on the back of the card) through the use of an electronic chip that verifies a …

There is an excellent and extensively researched article on photographic preservation on the Washington Post. It covers everything from the why's and wherefore's of photographic preservation to Bill Gates' private photo archive at Corbis (which you can use if you pay for the rights).

An article from the New York Times relates that there is concern in the library and archive community that the DMCA may prevent the preservation of such historically important software as VisiCalc. Because of "bit rot", the disks containing the original software are becoming unusable, but archivists are hesitant to …

It's official. A press release on the Roxio site indicates that they have purchased PressPlay from Sony and Universal Music for a $12.5 million in cash and 3.9 in stock. In addition, the company plans to pour at least $20 million into the venture just to get it …

An interesting article on Wired this morning covers the use of technology in the War in Iraq.

Only on the internet... An article on Wired this morning needs to be read to be thoroughly understood.

An article on USA Today describes the efforts of hackers to use an XBox as the basis of a PC and describes the costs, potential benefits, and legal risks.

According to an article from CNET, the first quarter of 2003 saw an increase of over two million users with broadband. Most (1.2 million) went to cable, but the healthy remainder are now using DSL. The article further states that of the 87 million people within the reach of …

Tadpole, long-time purveyor of Solaris-running Sparc-based laptops, has decided to try competing directly with lower price offerings. According to an article on CNET, the company has released an under-$3000 model as part of its new line- up.

An article in Information Week describes some of the pitfalls of using Microsoft's Windows Update and some strategies for mitigating the harm.

In a move that is undoubtedly intended to bolster the copyright claims of SCO, Microsoft Sunday announced that they will be licensing the remnants of AT&T's original Unix from SCO. As reported by CNET, this is the next salvo in the war between Microsoft and the Linux community …