Is Apple Vindictive and Evil?
Apple has not won all of its lawsuits. In fact, other than one big jury award it has for the most part been losing cases. Certainly, outside of the “home court advantage” here in America it has done rather poorly. In an especially humiliating loss outside of the US, Apple was instructed to modify its [...]
Don't Be Evil = Don't Inconvenience Me
Google took a lot of ribbing for adopting the “Don’t be evil” motto. But with the recent revelation that Google has been working with Verizon to undermine Net Neutrality, many feel that Google has crossed the Moral Event Horizon into outright villainy. I’m not smart enough to weigh in on the Net Neutrality debate. But [...]
Bring On The Inquisition! Judge Should Not Let Google Evil-doers Get Away!
<rant> Italian Judge Oscar Magi (photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up [...]
Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for CloudAve. The new search returns http://www.google.com/#q=cloudave. The difference being that standard referral tracking and analytics services don’t see anything after the “#”. The search community [...]
