Monthly Archives: March 2008
SFLC Announces a For-Profit, Open-Source Law Firm
If you were an open-source, non-profit developer and you needed legal help, you went to the Software Freedom Law Center. If, however, you were...
Mainframe a Classic ‘Survivor Technology’
Just weeks after a site cropped up serving the sole purpose of waxing nostalgic about extinct technology skills, The New York Times considers why...
Sprint and Company Cover Their Broadband Bases
Today, eWEEK's Clint Boulton is reporting on the latest efforts to save the Sprint-Clearwire nationwide WiMax wireless data network scheme.Back in July, Sprint and...
PGP: Pretty Good After All These Years
I met up with PGP President Phil Dunkelberger in the lobby of the Burlington (Mass.) Marriott recently as he was getting ready to head...
Facebook Boosts Privacy Controls
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While I was an early adopter of many social networks, over the last year I've found myself using them less...
Sprint, Clearwire Plan WiMax Via Comcast, Time Warner
Remember last year when Sprint and Clearwire embarked on a venture that would have defined the WiMax market for decades? That star burned out...
Spectrum: Free And Worth Billions
If someone told you they wanted you to bid on something that was free and unlimited, how much would you offer? In the latest...
Firefox Update Zaps Code Execution Bugs
Mozilla is shipping a "critical" Firefox update to provide patches for at least 11 security vulnerabilities affecting the open-source browser.The most serious of the...
Peace Breaks Out
Yesterday's announcement of Yahoo joining with Google and MySpace to form an OpenSocial Foundation may have seemed like good news for social media developers,...
It’s Splitsville for Motorola
After months of turmoil that has included an exodus of top executives, declining sales, infighting with a top shareholder and a drop in its...