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Conspiracy theories about Intel’s role in the “netbook” craze
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The last few days working on Save the Netbooks have been enlightening to say the least. It’s surprising that something as mundane as a moniker for a generic class
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Blogger fights Psion’s right to ‘netbook’ name
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The Register: Blogger fights Psion’s right to ‘netbook’ name‘Considerable chutzpah’ By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco Posted in PCs & Chips, 19th February 2009 01:44 GMT A campaign has been
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Psion Teklogix may lose Netbook trademark
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Psion Teklogix, who own international trademarks on the term “netbook” relating to a product that was discontinued in 2003, had recently sent cease and desist letters to “literally hundreds”
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“Save the Netbooks” campaign launched to fight impending trademark threat
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The “Save the Netbooks” campaign is fighting the impending trademark threat from Psion Teklogix, who have given until the end of March 2009 to cease using the term, citing
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Australian Internet censorship trial participant feedback
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I forwarded my last post to the six trial participant ISPs and promptly received the first comprehensive response from one Andrew Robson, Managing Director of TECH 2U, which is
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Cloud Computing Doghouse Updates (Incoming): Australia’s Clean Feed
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today was a sad day for all Australians (and not just becuase of the horrific bushfires) – Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, above)
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Cloud Computing Doghouse Updates (Outgoing): Nirvanix
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A lot has happened since I tried my hand at investigative journalism with my detailed piece on Nirvanix’s lineage and its connections with Streamload/Mediamax/The Linkup (which you can read
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Cloud Computing Doghouse Updates (Incoming): Psion / Netbook trademark
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Many of you will remember Psion from their heydey of making PDAs and other consumer devices and will be surprised to see them being discussed in the context of
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Cloud Computing Doghouse Updates (Outgoing): Dell Computer
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today is an important day in that it marks the 6 month anniversary of USPTO’s revocation of Dell’s Notice of Allowance for the infamous ‘Cloud Computing’ trademark #77139082 that
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The day Google broke the Internet…
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.As I write this, all Google search results are being flagged as malware and redirected to a scary warning page, including google.com itself: The warning page (which I’ve only
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Size doesn’t matter (for Netbooks anyway)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve just finished overhauling Wikipedia’s Netbook article which currently does a much better job of reflecting reality than it did previously. In particular, the term ‘Netbook’ pertains to connectivity
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Major Google App Engine 2.0 update (Java, cron, billing) in the pipeline?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve been doing a lot of Google App Engine development lately and getting increasingly familiar with how it all works. I was curious as to how the SDK (specifically