Technology blog links: 19/08/08
- 19 Aug 08, 12:45 GMT
Here's your fix of technology links and postings I've seen around the blogosphere that I think are worth reading.
Feel free to post some of your own. Or we could set up a group Delicious feed? Post your thoughts.
Apple is flailing badly at the edges
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch holds no punches for the bad apples.
Google releases Android SDK beta
Zdnet says Google's rival to Symbian, Linux, Windows Mobile and the iPhone edges closer to launch.
Garmin gets the social network groove
Cnet reports on GPS firm combining its technology with social networking.
Patent office rejects cloud computing application
E-Week on Dell's attempts to patent cloud computing.
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Comment number 1.
At 08:53 20th Aug 2008, danteGideon wrote:A bit of balance to the increasingly rabid Michael Arrington:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/08/19/arrington
Apple lead by ten points in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). ACSI say "We haven’t seen anything like this before..."
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Comment number 2.
At 18:00 20th Aug 2008, Nick_tal wrote:Have you noticed this (gathering) story about the new Number 10 blog, which was launched with uncredited (but freely released, with a Creative Commons licence) code - which they've stamped with "Crown Copyright" - in breach of Creative Commons copyright - and allegedly cost £100,000?
See: https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/prime-ministers-website-breaks-copyright-law/
and:
https://www.mikerouse.net/2008/08/15/10-downing-street-wordpress-website-knock-off-and-rip-off/
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Comment number 3.
At 07:37 21st Aug 2008, plh wrote:I think it's unhelpful to provide links to articles saying you think they're worth reading if you haven't actually read them yourself or don't really know what they are about.
Dell did not attempt to patent cloud computing and describing Google's Linux based Android as a rival to Linux is absurd.
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