Words and pictures from Silicon Valley by Chris Gulker
Slashdot and Groklaw point to a key ruling by a Utah Federal Court that SCO doesn’t own the UNIX copyrights – Novell does. All of SCO’s other claims should fall like dominoes in light of this ruling. It’s over, SCO loses… even WSJ has the story…
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The proliferation of media types is causing marketers to give up on trying to get consumer attention with traditional advertising, according to a front-page NYT piece. Instead, marketers are relying on their packaging to grab your attention at the point of sale. Marketers are using frequent package updates, blinking and buzzing features and more to get consumer attention. Reminds me of scenes in the flim ‘Minority Report’…
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Somewhere along the line, Mac OS X’s autoupdate feature has updated my Macs to a not very happy state. Both my Dual G5 and Core Duo Mini have gone into ‘beach-ball’ hung states, recently, and the fax receive of my single-processor G5 has stopped working properly (a real pity, since it parks received faxes on .Mac, where they’re easy to get to). Better check the forums et al. for a fix…
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