CNET is reporting that a "coalition" of technology companies has formed to oppose the MPAA and its bid to get the government to impose regulations requiring intrusive copy protection be installed in computers and consumer electronics devices. The bill, proposed last year by Senator Fritz Hollings, D-SC, has not yet …

One of the smallest announcements at MWSF2003 was Apple's release of an industry-standard X11 Server. My initial impressions of this package are very good. I've done a bunch of cursory tests, mainly by using the system for "real work". First, it looks rather fast, which is nice. Xeyes tracks well …

As announced yesterday, Microsoft has reached a tentative agreement with the State of California to settle outstanding anti-trust claims made by the state against the company. Apple Computer has taken the bold step of opposing this settlement on the grounds that it may actually benefit Microsoft, due to the manner …

An excellent article on CNet details Apple's choice of the KHTML web back-end as well as describing the Mozilla reaction to it.

MacWorld San Francisco 2003 Wrap-up.This is mainly the good. I'll leave the bad and the ugly up to the "real" press. Yesterday was the last day for MWSF2003. I didn't attend this day, due to prior commitments, but I was there for the preceding 3 days rummaging around on …

I've spent the last week in San Francisco meeting with old and new friends and taking in MacWorld San Francisco 2003. Here are some thoughts the way trade shows seem to be going. I'll put up another posting specifically about this show. After attending a large number of conferences and …