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2007 November 14

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AT&T Takes Steps to Join the Filtered Crowd

Your World, through Our Lenses!
AT&T has made another move away from net neutrality today, by investing in a little known company called Vobile.
Vobile’s main product is something it calls VideoDNA. The product produces a ‘watermark’ for every frame of video content, and is said to be very durable, surviving all manner of transformations.
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Open Document Foundation Dissolves

could the evil Darth Ballmer be at work here?
The Open Document Foundation has disappeared (has been disappeared?), with no sign of the pages that were hosted by Google. There were warnings of this last month, but this is very strange.
There is, in the dust a new ‘device’ called the Compound Document Format, which appears […]

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John, You’ve Got It Right Again!

Every now and then, something in the tech news escapes me. I read the regular magazines and tech journals voraciously, but sometimes life intervenes.
I went back through the writings on Lockergnome and see no one has referred to this or commented, so I will, because it is so on point.
John C. Dvorak has […]

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Dell & Sun Smoke Peace Pipe - Dell to Offer Solaris 10

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, today Dell and Sun announced a multi-year agreement to have Dell distribute Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system.
This is outstanding news for both companies, as well as their customers. Solaris is a true Unix, for those who care, and the deal with Dell means a wide network to get […]