Week In Review 32W2010
Big news this week was Oracle suing Google. Google has money and Larry wants it. Most likely, Oracle bought Sun just for the license racketeering. Let’s see how this works out. Google had some evilness of its own and made a joint proposal with Verizon about net unneutrality. If someone had any doubt the proposal is evil, AT&T came forward supporting it and dispelled any doubts. Hollywood, on the other hand, thinks it’s not evil enough mostly cause it makes it harder to stop content distribution over the wired Internet (oh DVDs where have you gone …).
Smartphones keep growing, Android moves ahead of iPhone globally.
Microsoft keeps having bad weeks. Preparing for the back to school onslaught they decided to put a rather defensive don’t switch to Mac campaign. Cause you know, some tuners don’t work on Macs. And some games aren’t available on Mac. Dam’n it! Don’t look at Valve. Look over here. Really! What ? Open Source in enterprise ? No, say it ain’t so.
Comic Relief: Murdoch says it owns ‘Sky’ in ‘Skype’.
Glad to know US has its priorities straight. FBI has been putting resources into “intellectual property infringement” and pulling from missing persons. They’re probably busy with people pre-suing would be bootleggers as Does 100 at a time.
RIM caved and Saudis can keep their Blackberrys. More countries will obviously follow suit.
