Archive for June, 2007
Ultra-confusing Microsoft licensing
Greetings from the forests of western Michigan. Ed Bott has a post on Microsoft’s licensing mess that I want to pass along. I have often complained about how Microsoft seems to go out of its way to make its licensing as confusing as possible. Microsoft has a very large legal staff and they seem to [...]
Dog lovers beware
Everybody loves a cute puppy and the scammers are out to take advantage of that. InformationWeek reports:
The American Kennel Club and the Council of Better Business Bureaus are warning consumers about a new e-mail scam that is conning people into spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on puppies that they actually never receive.
Tips on protecting your privacy
Advertisers, phishers, and others are always eager to gather as much information as possible about you when you are online. Previous posts have mentioned the efforts of Google as well as Microsoft to create profiles of Web surfers. There are various ways to guard against all this snooping, including keeping tracking-cookies out. At PC [...]
Bill Gates meets Steve Jobs
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs put in a rare appearance together at a recent conference. If you want to see what they had to say to each other, there is a transcript at this link. There is also a video clip.
eBay buys StumbleUpon
I always thought of StumbleUpon as a social search engine but it seems that there is a commercial aspect. At least eBay, not noted as a search engine, thinks so. They’ve bought the business.
