2007 September 28

I am seriously tired of listening to the whines of hacked iPhone owners.  It’s been 24 hours, now, folks.  Time to put on your big kid undies and grow up.
Apple told you you had to use ATT.  Apple told you not to hack your iPhones.  Apple told you — before the hacks came on the [...]

…asks Mary Jo Foley on All About Microsoft:
Until now, January 30, 2008, was the Microsoft-imposed deadline for system vendors to cease offering Windows XP on all new OEM machines. (System builders, a k a white-box vendors, had a longer deadline: January 30, 2009.) But as a result of feedback from customers and partners, Microsoft has [...]

Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, writing in Slate, discusses the whys and wherefores of citywide WiFi’s continued failure to compete with the entrenched technology.
Setting up a large wireless network isn’t as expensive as installing
wires into people’s homes, but it still costs a lot of money. Not
billions, but still millions. To recover costs, the private “partner”
has [...]

Chris had an entry over on Windows Fanatics about ZoneAlarm’s new sandbox utility, ForceField, which they’ve just made available as a free download to folks who aren’t afraid of beta versions.
Since I mostly write for folks like me — people who are, at best, knowledgeable amateurs when it comes to computers and computing — I [...]