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Microsoft is running a very confusing strategy here. Google understood that with Motorola and it's why they sold it off. Microsoft hopes to keep its monopoly in the PC space with i…

Maybe Microsoft sent them different press releases, and they each churned those.

Yes, the choice was between no rules and weak rules, either of which will allow the telecoms to do whatever they want to service companies (despite the meaningless "commercially re…

As an European I probably should be glad about this, since this combined with all the NSA spying issues and implementing backdoors into US products [1], should increasingly force i…

As we've seen with the recent patent case that reached the Supreme Court, once again because the Federal Court overturned the lower Court's ruling, it seems the Appeals Courts are …

I hope TextSecure/Whisper will get to have video-calling, too, soon. People need to stop using insecure platforms like Skype that make mass spying so easy.

I strongly recommend reading Blue Ocean Strategy, too. Innovator's Dilemma focuses on technology mostly, but Blue Ocean is a similar theory that applies to any industry. They are p…

"Modern" IE that doesn't support WebRTC, HSTS, and the most behind in supporting HTML5 features [1]. If that's "modern", I'd hate to see how their "non-modern" products look. [1] -…

In 2014, everyone who uses https should enable PFS (ECDHE) and HSTS, at the very least.

Maybe it was an execution problem, too, but I think it was mainly a strategic problem - i.e. the leadership didn't want to try and replace Symbian very quickly. They still thought …

I've also noticed sites like TheVerge do native advertising in a way that's very hard to tell until you actually see the article. And I don't think I've seen any "Sponsored" or sim…

How the mighty fall.

Yes, I was also wondering if FSF or someone like that could take the project themselves. Let's see who comes knocking. It wouldn't be the first time FSF "facilitated piracy" by bui…

#1 reason why I think they should not fire Vic Gundotra: all of this is most likely not Gundotra's fault, but Larry Page's fault. Gundotra was VP of engineering before and then he …

> Above all else, I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication. How deeply? Enough to implement proper end to end encryption? Otherw…

The greatest trick the devil has ever pulled... But if that makes Hollywood sleep better at night, sure - sleep tight, Hollywood! All is well with the world now. No need to bother …

It is a pricing problem, but also a distribution and licensing problem. Netflix for example is not available in most countries of the world, and nor it nor anything like it has all…

People don't buy whole devices for an app. Or at least not most people.

Designing for Metro was a waste of time from the beginning.

> Brokenshire suggested that the government was also pushing for a "code of conduct" for internet service providers and other internet companies, which might include changing searc…

I guess something like that may work better in a more limited mobile environment where you don't have to do it 20 times an hour, and it's also easier to do it with touch.

Pretty cool. But maybe you can make the cards a little smaller. I think they are wasting a little too much space right now.

Skype has battery drain problems on all devices. I guess it's understandable considering NSA has to keep it on to spy on you through it.

That's how Ethereum will be launched, too, and once it's launched thousands of others can do the same on top of Ethereum, without having to reinvent their own "coin" from scratch. …

I hope CyanogenMod (but other ROMs are welcome to do it, too) keeps focusing on the privacy and security aspect.