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BadVist, No Biscuit?

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Michael Koby

It seems the good folks over at Free Software Foundation have released a new campaign to rally the troops against the evil big corporations that plan to rule our daily lives with “inferior” software and closed-sourced operating systems. The name … Continue reading →

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Google vs. Technorati

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Michael Koby

TechCrunch is running a story on how, according to Hitwise, Google BlogSearch is beating out Technorati for blog searches. I’m ignoring the Comscore aspect of the article due to Comscore’s apparent inaccurate data. The funny thing about this article is … Continue reading →

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What to Buy This Christmas: Satellite Radio

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Michael Koby

This article is part of a series called “What to Buy This Christmas” and you can find parts One and Two here. This series of articles goes over this season’s biggest items and their competitors. Helping you, the reader, make … Continue reading →

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iTunes Gets CW Programs

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Michael Koby

The folks over at iLounge are reporting that the iTunes Store now has the CW shows Supernatural and Veronica Mars. While I think that it is cool to finally have some CW programming on iTunes, I am surprised over the … Continue reading →

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Find Linux Equialents to Windows Software

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Michael Koby

The good folks over at Lifehacker, have published an article on the Linux Equivalent Project. The Linux Equivalent Project is a website that points Linux users to software that that runs on Linux that is equivalent or an alternate to … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates on DRM

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Michael Koby

TechCrunch is running an article on what Microsoft’s Chief Architect thinks of DRM. Here are some bits from the article and my take on them. Gates didn’t get into what could replace DRM, but he did give some reasonably candid … Continue reading →

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