“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in | Ars Technica
"Today the torrent of software patent litigation has become a waste for society," he continued. "It's a classic deadweight social loss." Those costs include legal costs as well as building defensive patent portfolios.
UN Internet meeting about who pays, not who rules: Geist - thestar.com
The focus on a UN takeover of the Internet has obscured the real concern with the WCIT, namely efforts by telecom companies to find new sources of revenue by changing the way we pay for the Internet.
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites
There’s an entire separate article we’ll get to eventually on how the relevancy of Google News seems to have gotten worse recently, with stories being surfaced that can be woefully out-of-date. The fact that all these hacked sites are showing up is just one sign that perhaps Google News needs more attention than it has been getting from Google.
11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
Shoppers at the Apple Store bought an average of 11 iPads per hour. Despite heavy TV, print and billboard advertising for the new Microsoft Surface tablet, not one was sold sold during the two hours Piper Jaffray spent monitoring that store. Doesn't bode well for Microsoft's answer to the iPad.