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On Microsoft and Schadenfreude

August 12, 2009

The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from selling any more copies of Microsoft Word starting in 60 days.  Microsoft, which aggressively patents its own technologies [...]

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MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

July 13, 2009

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as our air raid siren’s [...]

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Moobella Raises $25M First Round

July 11, 2007

Baskin-Robbins oughtta be scared.  Easily the highlight for me while attending DEMO 2006 was sampling the wares of the Moobella Ice Cream vending machine.  Yesterday they announced their $25M Series A financing, which is an impressive indicator of how far along they are both in operationalizing their machines and deploying them out in the field. [...]

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Palm gets the gong

May 31, 2007

Yesterday’s launch of the Palm Foleo probably did not yield the expected huzzahs and praise that normally heralds a product launch from one of Silicon Valley’s product design luminaries, especially one by Mr. Jeff Hawkins. Palm chose to use Mossberg‘s All Things Digital conference in San Diego as a springboard for its media assault, but [...]

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Move Over, iPhone

May 30, 2007

If, in a few weeks, it turns out that Apple’s iPhone is going to become another delicate rosebud in the AT&T Wireless walled garden, there are a number of candidates waiting in the wings for those of us who’ve seen this as the bazaar‘s big chance to topple the cathedral. One of the more interesting [...]

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Backup Bliss with OS X

April 25, 2007

Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the [...]

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Linux-Powered Toaster..

April 7, 2003

http://ch9.us/sample5/ -Ian.

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Open Source PBX On Linux..

March 14, 2003

Wow… put a PBX in your home! Create your own ACD tree! -Ian. ——– http://www.asteriskpbx.com/ What is Asterisk? Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with [...]

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Inside the Meet Market…

December 30, 2002

http://www.shift.com/content/web/444/1.html MEET MARKET Meetup.com allows people to easily arrange offline get-togethers for like-minded netizens. But does it really work? Al Mousseau crashes two Meetups to find out. | Dec.23.2002 | I walk into Future Bakery on Bloor Street. It’s rather chilly out, and I’ve come out of the cold to check out a meatspace “Meetup,” [...]

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Jeff Raskin’s THE Guy

December 28, 2002

Interesting that Raskin is essentially using the open source community to promote his book. Obviously not his sole intent, but an interesting lateral benefit.. -Ian. —– http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/ Jeff Raskin: About The Humane Environment There is a common misconception that The Humane Environment (THE) is just a hyper-efficient editor. It is not. So THE is not [...]

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