Voice over IP is a technology designed to move communications from the existing, old phone system to the Internet. This series of articles looks the benefits and risks of VoIP and how the technology is developing. This first article considers the reasons for, and challenges behind, replacing the existing old phone empire with a new system.
How far can Apple go with open source? Many argue that Apple should decisively push into expanding their open source efforts, but how? There isn’t just one way to embrace open source as a strategy.
This article compares the benefits and the motivations behind two very different styles of open source development: the BSD style license, pioneered by UC Berkeley and MIT; and the GPL invented by Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement.
Seth Stevenson writes a column for Slate called the “Ad Report Card,” where he rates the effectiveness of advertising based on his own extemporaneous criteria. Sometimes it’s the concept , sometimes execution, and sometimes he just likes ads because they are entertaining. After watching Apple’s new Get a Mac ads, however, he complained: “They are […]
The opinion that Apple’s binary-only kernel for Intel involves a huge coverup, or misleading advertising on Apple’s part, or is otherwise a broken promise on the level of massive fraud, has been thoroughly beaten into the ground by certain political advocates, who scour the web like an army of GNU-bots, looking for venues to unleash their political screed on open source as a political philosophy.
Apple next needs to add community networked member profiles to .Mac. All the benefits of existing social networks, including meeting others with similar interests, would tie in well with the hyperblog content submission system and earned reputations.