Windows Vista: The World's Most Expensive Spyware
Sun, 01/07/2007 - 1:01pm — HomerBy: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor (condensed version)
Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.
BBC: Situation Critical - Media Guardian
Sun, 10/06/2007 - 6:48pm — HomerSituation critical | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
Situation critical
The BBC's desperate attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs. Bobbie Johnson asks how it all went wrong
Monday May 14, 2007
The Guardian
Yahoo Censoring Open Source
Wed, 25/04/2007 - 2:58am — HomerUpdate: 25th Jan 2008: Welcome CNet and Inq. readers.
According to avid Yahoo'er, Amanda Kerik, Yahoo seems to have developed a policy of censoring answers in their "Yahoo! Answers" service, if that answer contains a suggestion to use Open Source alternatives to Microsoft software.
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