February 8, 2007
Speculation is that the denial of service attack this week on the some of the Internet's root servers was carried out by a botnet of a million or more zombie computers. Fascinating stuff.[via EETimes]...
While Y2K was a bust, there are a lot of people more credibly nervous about the unanticipated consequences of the change in daylight savings time coming up on March 11th. With DST moved forward four weeks in the U.S., courtesy...
Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman had some strong words for Apple CEO Steve Jobs during an earnings conference call today:... let me discuss a couple of issues that have been in the news recently, interoperability and digital rights management, or DRM....
I'm on CNBC tonight around 4:40 or so talking Apple, Steve Jobs, DRM, etc. I also have an editorial in the weekend Wall Street Journal....
Josh Jaffe is doing some more parsing of the Sequoia LP list to be found in the recent Google/YouTube filing, and he comes up with some surprising names:Among the recipients was NBC newsman Forrest Sawyer, who received 170 Google shares,...
This will come as a surprise to many of its critics, but Rupert Murdoch says that cable business network CNBC isn't friendly enough to business. His soon-to-be-launched business network will, the suggestion seems to be, redress that failing.obDisclosure: I'm a...
The folks at Dabble DB have up a provocative post wondering at why databases have traditionally been so unimaginative about data: I’ve always found it strange that databases are so unimaginative whenit comes to data types: text, numbers, dates, times,...
