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The other day I wrote about how Amazon had deleted a book from their customer’s Kindle devices and how this was why DRM is bad and a company having that much control over your device or your media is a bad thing. Amazon apologized for it later. They didn’t say they wouldn’t do it again, [...]

They say you can judge a person’s character by the company they keep. I think the same could be said about companies. When I read today that a worker commited suicide because they “lost” a prototype of the next generation iPhone I wish I could say I was surpised. Everyone likes to talk about Apple [...]

All your base books are belong to us. Again, the problems with Digital Rights Management rear their ugly heads. No one can demonstrate the problems with DRM more than those who control it. This time, it is Amazon and their Kindle again. Apparently, Amazon sold books to their customers that they did not have a [...]

This is an excerpt from an actual email I just got from a friend of mine. My personal cell phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx.  I now have four work or personal phone numbers, not including my wife’s cell phone and two fax numbers.  Home is xxx-xxx-xxx. He had gotten a new cell phone and was sending [...]

Some people are pretty excited today about the announcement of Google Chrome OS. To read some posts, you would think it was the end of Microsoft. Some comments like “Nuclear bomb dropped on Microsoft”, “A genius play”, would make one think that this is the final nail in Microsoft’s coffin. I really don’t see it. [...]