BRUCEB NEWS
Robert Bork & Hipster Antitrust
In the last article I said that the Facebook lawsuits “will be difficult to win under the standards used in antitrust cases for the last few decades.” Rather precise phrasing, eh? It’s a literary trick called foreshadowing. I hope you felt the dramatic tension rise...
AOL OFFERS REMOTE ACCESS
America Online appears to be offering a useful service - words I have not spoken often in the last ten or fifteen years. For $6.95 per month, AOL's new service Link2PC allows...
WINDOWS LIVE SEARCH
Microsoft unveiled its latest Internet search page, yet another attempt to unseat Google. The "Windows Live" name is being attached to many web-based Microsoft projects right...
MYSPACE.COM AND INTERNET SAFETY
MySpace.com is the largest community of teens and twenty-somethings in history. There's roughly sixty million registered users. Its growth rate is mind boggling. It's one of the...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
Microsoft announced product details and pricing for the various versions of Microsoft Office 2007, due later this year. Here's a summary of the various products.The theme in...
NEW PROCESSORS AHEAD
Pentium processors have gotten faster but the underlying architecture has been reasonably consistent for most consumer and small business computers for many years. Changes are...
WINDOWS DEFENDER – SUCCESSOR TO MICROSOFT ANTISPYWARE
Microsoft has released an updated version of its antispyware program, with a new name - Windows Defender. Here's the Windows Defender web site and here's an extensive review.You...
BRUCEB VACATION
I'll be out of town during the week of February 13. Oh, come on, don't cry. Everything will be fine. I should be available by cell phone for emergencies, and I expect to check...
REAL ESTATE FOR VOYEURS
Zillow.com launched its beta web site a few days ago, offering free access to real estate information that has been hard to come by until now. (It's been added to the bruceb...
ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT WINDOWS ONECARE
Here's an article about the official Microsoft announcement of Windows OneCare, which will be available in final form in June.The $49.99 license will permit the program to be...
AOL & YAHOO ALLOW BIG SPENDERS TO AVOID SPAM FILTERS
AOL & Yahoo are going to allow spam to reach mailboxes if the senders pay a fee for each message. Here's an article about the new system.It's hard to predict the result, but my...
WINDOWS ONECARE LIVE UPDATE
Microsoft plans to release the final version of Windows OneCare Live, its antivirus/backup/firewall/tuneup program, by summer 2006, and is likely to announce a price of $50/year...
GOOGLE TOOLBAR VERSION 4
If you use the Google toolbar, there's an update available today. Here's a description of the new features. The search box has gotten smarter, there's some enhanced features for...
INTERNET EXPLORER 7 BETA
Microsoft released a public beta of Internet Explorer 7 today. Here's the page for downloading, and here's an article about the new features. I have read that it is very stable,...
BLACKBERRY: DEATH BY PATENT
Here's a fascinating article about the sequence of events leading up to Blackberry's precarious position - the possibility that the entire Blackberry system will be shut down...
NETWORK NEUTRALITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
AT&T Chariman Ed Whitacre made seemingly outrageous comments in November about imposing additional charges on consumers or Google or Yahoo if we used "his" Internet pipes for...