Last Day at Microsoft for Bill Gates
Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft… This is hilarious…
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Man Bites Dog: School Sues Microsoft Philippines for Piracy
Most people in the IT field have probably heard the news about Microsoft Philippines being sued for piracy by the Southeastern School based in Pasay. Anyway just read some of the details of the case in the newspapers, so basically the issue is Microsoft bought some print copies of the SEC’s manual then apparently gave away PDF copies of it on CD, which numbers around 700 pieces.
I find it odd that Southeastern College choose to sue Microsoft Philippines given that SEC and Microsoft Philippines have worked together before and the relatively small number of copies given away (though this opens the doors for digital piracy). What, they can’t kiss and make up over some CD containing files which the vast majority of the public couldn’t give a rat’s ass about ? I mean a computer manual ?!
Google Knol: Do No Evil (?)
Between the Google Video Debacle, the brouhaha over Pagerank penalties and allegations of Google favoring its own products (Youtube and Blogspot) the past few month has certainly been rough for Google PR-wise.
The recent announcement of Google Knol doesn’t help either. Knol (which stands for a unit of knowledge) is Google’s answer to Wikipedia.
Jetblue offers in-flight Yahoo Mail and Messenger
Budget airline Jetblue has equipped one of their airplanes with wifi so that passengers can access their email and IM via Yahoo and wifi equipped Blackberry devices.
Passengers won’t be able to surf the full Web. But if they bring Wi-Fi-equipped laptops along, they can access lightweight versions of Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging services; BlackBerry […]
Tech Stuff at the 20th Philippine Ad Congress: VANI-TXT
Pay-per-surf meets 3G, get paid to view advertisements on your phone streamed via 3G. Here’s how it works:
You send an SMS to VANI-TXT indicating the company who’s ad you want to see.
After viewing the ad you get paid via a load credit. Load, rinse and repeat again.
Sounds a lot like pay-per-surf and just like […]
Isn’t It Ironic Department - ThePirateBay Files Charges Against Media Companies
In an ironic turn of events, torrent site ThePirateBay is filing charges against several media companies including 20th Century Fox, Universal, Paramount, Sony, Ubisoft and Atari. It seems that they found out from the leaked MediaDefender emails that these companies have been sanctioning underhanded tactics (DoS, spamming, etc) in their battle against P2P sites.
