by Tom | Mar 27, 2001 | General
A good reference to how the web helps – Cisco reckons well over $1bn a year in savings.3G’s biggest competitor is 2.5G. Or is it 3G?Interesting discussion with the founder of Handspring – he’s very rational about competition.Interesting article...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2001 | General
Is this the current face of Big Brother. Apparently the recording industry are using something like this to check who’s sharing stuff on Napster and Napster-alikes. Glad you ticked that firewall box now?Whoops, we’re on a bandwagon now…the...
by Tom | Mar 25, 2001 | General
Good article on rubbish patents and the abuse of the current US Patent System: Would You Buy a Patent License From This Man?I want one and I love the idea that you can logon to all sorts of random companies’ networks while sitting in a park. All we need is the...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2001 | General
Interesting story: VeriSign issues false Microsoft digital certificates. This is very similar to the identity theft busboy. These are not Internet stories at all – it’s no different to me forging a credit card and pretending to be Spielberg. Actually,...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2001 | General
Great article about the Usability gurus. It’s a little tongue in cheek, but none the worse for that: The church of usability.I’ve just managed to snaffle an Intellimouse with Intellieye (the light based mice). No more mouse ball cleaning for me! Means that...
by Tom | Mar 18, 2001 | General
Yet another great article by Clay ShirkyInteroperability, Not Standards. The message is that you’ve got to have a play / test / iterate period first before you define standards. This way you can really test alternatives. Otherwise you’re purely in the...
