Chattermail

November 28, 2005

Thanks to Sutha for tipping me to Chattermail, the best mail app for the Treo I’ve tried so far.  Push mail for the Treo (at least with IMAP) without server integration is a nice development.  And the interface is profoundly more productive than anything I’ve tried.

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Xooglers

November 28, 2005

The new blog Xooglers is run by ex-Googlers telling their stories of life at Google.  Fascinating.

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More on World, Beta 1

November 27, 2005

The WSJ is running an article on the culture of beta issue I wrote about a few days ago. Few people would fly on an airline that advertised its planes had untested engines, or swallow a pill from a drug company that admitted the side effects were unknown. Yet when it comes to software, it […]

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What is a Reasonable Royalty Rate?

November 27, 2005

Patent Baristas have posted a long and interesting article on determining the ‘right’ royalty rate for a technology (the author is a patent lawyer who practices in biotechnology, pharma and chemistry) from the licensee’s perspective.

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More Newspapers Announce Layoffs

November 27, 2005

Further to my recent posts on the impact that online classifieds, blogging and the like are having on the newspaper business, Editor and Publisher recaps a bloody week in the business: In the past week or so, six of the country’s major daily newspapers have revealed plans to kill more than 350 jobs through a […]

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Senate Issues Report on Do Not (Hesitate to) Call Bill

November 26, 2005

The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has issued its report on Bill C-37, the Do Not (Hesitate to ) Call bill. Gist: it did virtually nothing (the report contains 2 sentences), which is essentially what I predicted when it began to review the bill in early November. I am not claiming credit for […]

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Staying Connected on the Road

November 26, 2005

The NYT has a piece today with tips on staying connected while travelling. It includes advice on celphones, rate plans, email access, using a firewall and electrical current. Nothing new here, but also keep in mind the information about using hotel broadband I posted recently, and if you don’t use one already, consider using a […]

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Enforcement of U.K. Data Protection Laws

November 25, 2005

Naked Law summarizes a recent strategy document issued by the UK Information Commissioner concerning enforcement of data protection laws in the UK. Gist: Regulatory action will focus on those whose failure to comply with data protection results in serious consequences, either serious (perhaps career-threatening) harm to one individual, or less serious harm to many people. […]

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Paul Hellyer Phones Home

November 25, 2005

Yahoo is running a bizarre piece stating that Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau, has joined forces with three NGOs to ask Parliament to hold public hearings on relations with advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth. The story is bafflingly short on real […]

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Steve Gibson’s WPA Password Generator

November 24, 2005

In conjunction with his new podcast on security, Steve Gibson has posted a password generator of passwords of the maximum string length allowed by WPA.

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Sony’s CDs Still Selling, or Not

November 24, 2005

CNet reports that despite the rootkit controversy, Sony’s sales of the rootkitted CDs continue unaffected. Business Week disagrees.

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A New Force in Journalism?

November 23, 2005

The news that Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is planning an online journalism project is yet another reason to believe that the internet holds the key to true democratization of information and opinion. The Guardian reported on remarks Newmark recently made at Oxford University business school: When talk turned to the problems plaguing the U.S. news […]

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