March 2006

Andy has just posted the full text of the Streamcast / Skype RICO lawsuit.  It’s kind of a grubby fax.  Who knows where he got it from?  He would only tell me "sources".  Nonetheless, the suit alleges that: Streamcast and some of the predecessor entities to Skype had a right of first refusal agreement allowing Streamcast to purchase the peer [...]

It would suck to be Raymond Vardanega right now.  Raymond is the mid level marketing manager at Acer’s subsidiary in Australia who fed Smarthouse’s David Richards the rumour that up to 60% of Windows Vista code was to be rewritten for launch. When the blogging world told Dave he was full of baloney, he trotted out mail [...]

In No Bundle of Joy, the Washington Post looks at consumer reaction to bundled offerings from carriers.  Tellingly, consumers are rejecting the bundled offerings.  Beyond a simple discount, most bundles force compromises few consumers really want to make.  Furthermore, by shopping you can get a better deal.   Here in Canada, for instance, I buy [...]

Michael Robertson announced ajaxWrite today, a downloadable AJAX based word processor, that runs in Firefox.  The description on the website reads: ajaxWrite is a streamlined word processor, comparable to Microsoft Word. To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features; you’ll find the functions you use most often, right where you’d expect [...]