There is nothing wrong with your Internet. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. The reason you won’t be able to use Wikipedia, Reddit, or numerous other Web sites on January 18th is that these Web sites have decided to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Here’s my [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Management'
Who, besides Wikipedia, is going dark and why
January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Internet · Legal · Management · Network · Web Services
Go Daddy really and truly opposes SOPA now
December 30th, 2011 · Comments Off
here’s nothing like getting kicked in the teeth by your customers to make a company see reason. When Internet registry and Web site hosting company Go Daddy first realized that supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a misguided Internet copyright and censorship bill, wasn’t a smart idea, Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman did a [...]
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Verizon backs off $2 bill payment charge
December 30th, 2011 · Comments Off
It must have seemed like just another day for Verizon Wireless executives. “I know,” someone in the CFO’s office said, “We’ll charge people who make one-time credit or debit card payments on the phone or online $2 to pay their bill.” It must have seen like another fine way to nickel and dime their customers [...]
Tags: Business · Infrastructure · Management · SmartPhone · Verizon
OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own
December 15th, 2011 · Comments Off
Everyone likes personal cloud services, like Apple’s iCloud, Google Music, and Dropbox. But, many of aren’t crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else’s servers without our control. That’s where ownCloud comes in. OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. You use it to set up your own cloud [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Management · Network · Network Services · Open Source · Operating System · Web Services
Apple’s Worldwide War on Samsung and Android
November 30th, 2011 · Comments Off
Some fools still have this delusion that software patent and product design wars have something to do with some mythological real value of intellectual property (IP). While there are indeed cases involving a better mouse-trap, most such cases are about nothing but extorting cash from people who create real products, or, in the case of [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Infrastructure · Legal · Linux · Management · Operating System · Samsung · SmartPhone · Tablet