Apple’s Getting All Orwellian On Us…
The blogosphere is aghast with the latest salvo fired in the Apple vs the world war – this time it came in the form of an update to its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement that specifically bans the use of third-party compilers for creating apps that will run on the iPhone OS. Basically it looks [...]
The Dog Ate My Computer and Amazon Ate My Homework
I was laughing when I read Prof. Eszter Hargittai’s post: The dog ate my computer and other contemporary student excuses. Now here’s a sequel: Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework. Justin D. Gawronski, a 17-year-old Michigan high school senior is suing Amazon for wiping out his annotated copy of Orwell’s 1984, reports the WSJ: Gawronski, a [...]
Kindlegate: Debunking The Fast Company Article And Learning A Few Lessons From It
Recently, Jamais Cascio wrote an article on Fast Company pointing out to the recent Orwellian Kindle fiasco by Amazon and, then, arguing that one should not trust the Cloud Computing. The article can be categorized as borderline fear mongering with somewhat incorrect representation about the actual nature of the Cloud Computing. However, there are some [...]
