Headline Feeds|
Google and Moto: The Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios September 20, 2011 
Google's recent plan to buy Motorola Mobility has the potential for reshaping the entire Android landscape. If it wins regulatory approval for the purchase, Google may only have a short time span to connect its marketing strategy. When and if this happens, it could further fracture the open source Android operating system.
|
FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 3 September 08, 2011 
Where did this "you are permanently barred from distributing" stuff originate? In digging around, I found a post titled "A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance" at the Software Freedom Law Center dated August 26, 2008, written by the team of Bradley M. Kuhn, Aaron Williamson and Karen M. Sandler.
|
|
FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 2 September 07, 2011 
Mr. Smith was kind enough to reply two days later: "Hi Barbara, Thanks for your feedback. I've responded to some your specific points below. I'm aware that a license change in Linux would require significant effort. However, that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done. I wish it was easier for them, but we think they stand to benefit from upgrading even in this current situation. ..."
|
FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 1 September 06, 2011 
My first thought was that someone was engaging in click-bait journalism. Even the title of the post -- "Android GPLv2 termination worries - one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3" -- is something I would expect from anti-Android trolls, not the Free Software Foundation. The conclusion at the bottom of the article, that companies using Android should urge Linux developers to switch to the GPLv3, is so bad it's not even wrong.
|
|
Field of Streams, Part 3 August 04, 2011 
When ICE identifies a site that is violating copyright and/or intellectual property laws, it obtains a warrant from a United States court granting it the authority to seize the URL. At that point, ICE takes down the streams and throws up an intimidating warning that is overlaid on a red background with the word "SEIZED" written over and over. Case closed.
But it's not that simple.
|
Field of Streams, Part 2 August 03, 2011 
Anyone who has watched a sporting event on TV has heard something along the lines of, "Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without express written consent is prohibited." The message is relatively simple: This broadcast is a product, our product, and we are the only people allowed to show it. (We did, after all, and pay a pretty penny for it.)
|
|
Field of Streams, Part 1 August 02, 2011 
Tommy Thompson's concept of football fandom is derived from his 28 years following the Kansas City Chiefs. He was weaned on scenes from Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium, where tens of thousands of people congregate for their own Sunday service, replacing wine and bread with beer and barbeque. Thompson became a devout follower. Sunday meant NFL football, and NFL football meant the Kansas City Chiefs.
|
Search History: Google and Germany, Part 3 July 14, 2011 
Google's privacy-conscious initiatives are often born in Germany. Heeding the objections to Street View, which rained down from national authorities and wary Germans, Google introduced an opt-out feature that allowed people to officially request that their homes be blurred out -- nearly 250,000 applications were submitted. Google also hatched an engineering team devoted to privacy protection in Munich.
|
|
Search History: Google and Germany, Part 2 July 13, 2011 
Following Germany's reunification, victims and villains alike wanted to forget the country's past. And this, for everyone, required privacy. "I've jokingly talked about the privacy tree: It's brown and it has green leaves," said historian Konrad H. Jarausch, referring to Nazis (brown) and Leftists (green).
|
Search History: Google and Germany, Part 1 July 12, 2011 
From the clothing ads that dance around in epileptic flashes to the constant requests for your credit card number, email service from the German website GMX.net has some shortcomings. You can get 1 GB of memory, but you'll need a credit card for anything more -- a 5 GB allowance runs about $4.50 per month, and for 10 GB, you pay about $7.50 per month.
|
|
Art Online and Beyond March 17, 2011 
A few years ago, several Google employees got together and asked a fateful question: What if they extended Google's technologies of gathering and archiving information into the world of visual art? The recently launched Google Art Project is the answer to that question, taking one of the broadest steps yet in bringing the bricks-and-mortar-and-paint world of art museums to easily accessible virtual spaces.
|
Fine Art in a World Gone Digital March 10, 2011 
It used to be that if you wanted a work of art, you either had to get an original or settle for a less-than-perfect reproduction. Now, however, digital technologies, new printing processes, and the online world have converged to create a whole new world of collectible and affordable prints and reproductions. ArtWeLove.com, for instance, specializes in making and selling prints of contemporary artwork.
|
|
The Advent of the Superhumanly Intelligent UI October 13, 2010 
Competition in the keenly contested smartphone market is driving massive change in user interfaces. Mice and keyboards are so yesterday; touch, multitouch and gestures form the core of UIs today. Now, we have Google TV with apps on the TV set. The media of television, streaming video and the Internet are becoming more closely intertwined.
|
Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 3 October 07, 2010 
Being tethered to a computer all day is bad for employees' health and for employers' profits, considering healthcare insurance premiums climb and productivity declines with every worker malady. The latest scientific evidence finds that productivity is reduced even when it appears to be unimpeded.
|
|
Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 2 October 01, 2010 
The very nature of humanity has been changed by the nature of modern work. Where once workers were lean, muscled and tan, now they are pudgy, stooped and wrist-warped. The problem comes from restricted movement over long stretches in the day. Computers have chained employees to one spot, effectively stopping hearts, blurring eyes, freezing joints, and lifting sugar levels.
|
Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 1 September 28, 2010 
21st Century Western civilization bears the brunt of the greatest health threat since the black plague. Although not quite as dramatic -- there are no bodies in the street or mass graves of the afflicted, for example -- the death count is high and climbing, and the toll on company costs (from health insurance to lost productivity) seems unending.
|
See More Articles in Must Read Section >>
