Home » Industry WatchDismissing the NewsFor 30 September 2008.
Ant & Dec sued for using name Incredible. A gay Greek in the US wants $32 million from the famous Brit duo for using the word 'ant'.
Apple updates App Store to address developer misuse Seems Apple have (inadvertently) stumbled onto another great trait in the 'Mac community'.
Ballmer changes tune while dancing around Apple's success This man seems to think his destiny is to annoy as many people as possible. You don't have to think Apple are the bees knees - it's perfectly alright to hate Steve Ballmer on his own merits alone.
Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman 'He insists that reliance on web-based software poses a serious risk to freedom and privacy.' He's right!
Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Purveyors Microsoft tries to put fear of God into scareware vendors Only ten years down the line and they react. Of course this whole bloody business wouldn't be possible if Windows weren't so crappy. So if they really want to nip this one in the bud they could clean up their own act.
Australian ISPs offer US advice, smugness, on net neutrality It works like a cartel. And Aussie ISPs have been ripping their customers off for ages.
Venezuela splashes out on laptops Microsoft and Intel have been working very hard to crush the 'One Laptop Per Child' initiative. Venezuela buying one million Classmates is Faustian.
BT to kick off fresh Phorm trial BT rolls out Phorm web tracking This from the people who seem to love to be hated.
Norway starts legal strike against iTunes Norway guns for Apple to ditch iTunes DRM Norway gives Apple deadline to open up FairPlay DRM Hallelujah.
Let us eat cake
Just take your girlfriend to Selfridges or Fortnum & Mason and you'll understand.
Directly access System Preference panes in the Dock Pref panes function as documents on the far side of the divider. Works even with Tiger 10.4.11 or perhaps even further back.
Safari's WebKit passes Acid3 test Colour us not impressed. So what? Safari's JavaScript engine is still crap.
Time to bail? AAPL falls near 20% on market gloom The sky is falling!
Web Fraud 2.0: Fake YouTube Page Maker Helps Spread Malware
Too cool for words. Just keep making fun of Windows. People are bound to catch on any millennium now.
Fake Antispyware Purveyor Doubles as Domain Registrar Talk about dystopian. Of course yet again as we all know by now: none of this would be possible were it not for Bill Gates.
Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus Of course you know what Gpcode is, right? You don't? Could that be because you're too smart to get caught running Windows online? 'Gpcode used 1024-bit RSA/128-bit RC4 to lock up victims' data - an uncrackable combination that left the world with only one solution: find the virus author to get the master key.' Too cool for words. Keep humiliating Windows.
OmniWeb 5.8 Browser Released Who cares? Watch how Omni spam the comments. Nawty nawty.
Firefox 3.0.3 Fixes Password Issue Fixes bug introduced in 3.0.2. Another 18 MB download. See review here.
Grid of 100,000 computers heralds new internet dawn
Get your own today if only for the graphics.
Analysis: Google is playing the long game against Apple And Ladbrookes favour Google. Apple to Google may end up being what the ][ was to the PC.
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