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Del.icio.us Link Stroll: How Google Gears Could Kill Microsoft, Google Elucidates “Net Neutrality”, Judge Makes Life Difficult for the RIAA
Welcome to another leisurely stroll through my recently collected del.icio.us links. As always, feel free to add me (”Tenken” on del.icio.us) to your network if you’d like to share your own links with me. You can also subscribe to this RSS feed of my del.icio.us findings.
How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I’ve [...]
Does Distrust Explain the Psychology of Piracy?
There’s no question that many of the younger generation (I refuse to say “Generation Y”, sorry) currently have extraordinarily relaxed views about content ownership. This was the generation raised on Napster, Kazaa, and the birth and evolution of everything peer-to-peer. They are used to getting what they want, when they want it, and for very [...]
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How Price Comparison Site Results in Google Hurt Consumers
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Ask yourselves this, when last have you been able to find a decent tech review on Google? Sure, sometimes you may come across one or two reviews from major sites, but in my experience it seems that every time I try and Google for a tech product review I get inundated by dozens of search [...]
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On Windows Vista (Final Build)
A few weeks ago, Microsoft had a low-key ceremony announcing the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to their business customers. It was all pretty unceremonious because the official release of Vista to the general public still isn’t for a few more months. It was important to me, though, because it meant that companies [...]
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Site Design Updated
As you can tell by now, the site has a new theme courtesy of Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyone.com. It’s a very elegant design that seems to mesh well with the text-heavy content of this blog. Hopefully this new coat of paint will also entice me into updating more often. While I liked the old design, [...]
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HD-DVD’s Secret Weapon? HD-DVD Standard on Toshiba Laptops Come 2008, And Why It Probably Won’t Matter