Tech blogs are fizzing with rage at the fine print in Microsoft’s new Windows licensing policy. The software behemoth recently made a change to its license agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence a new Windows OEM license must be purchased if a motherboard is changed or upgraded. Here… Read More »
In the February 20, 2006 issue of FORTUNE, Jonathan Baron, a 61-year-old psychology professor at the University of Pennslyvania said, “We have a natural tendency to dismiss our sins of omission. We take harms of action to be worse than harms of inaction.” (page 80)So is lying worse than withholding the truth? And is killing… Read More »
At the World Economic Forum on 24 January 2004, Bill Gates promised that spam would be eradicated as a problem within 24 months. Follow this link to read about his three-stage plan to can spam, which generated plenty of headlines then.I expect the Microsoft Chairman to receive plenty of reminders about his bold prediction right… Read More »
With product refresh cycles getting increasingly shorter, many users have resorted to selling their old iPods with music libraries intact. In fact, some sellers have even make a virtue of the fact, as shown in this screen capture from eBay. If you’re the type who changes MP3 players like you change mobile phones, remember to… Read More »
Somehow, after reading about Steve Johnson’s six-hour ordeal with the iPod, I lost my entire faith in technology’s promise to rescue mankind from all its miseries. If an alleged Internet critic with a respectable organisation like Chicago Tribune can struggle with an idiot-proof product, what hope does the hapless man in the street have? But… Read More »
By now you would have heard about the landslide at Southern Leyte where hundreds of people were feared dead and thousands more were missing. If you are residing in Metro Manila, you can help the victims and evacuees by donating blankets, mats, clothes, bags, toys, medicines, rice, food and other goods you find useful through… Read More »