innovation

GeekPAC: "Here’s a small list:
Big media and big entertainment’s stranglehold on IP laws and the resultant killing of innovation..."

Linux Today Blog: "Nominum Solves Kaminsky Attack, and Novell's iPrint Open to Attack, Say Researchers.

What do these stories have in common? I was thinking perhaps institutionalized delusional thinking and incompetence, but maybe I'm being too harsh."

We've talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation, bad for Microsoft and Google, and ultimately bad for you.

Until today, the idea seemed like an eventuality, not an immediate reality.

With various US broadband firms implementing usage caps sometimes as low as 5GBs/month, we are quite concerned about how these moves will hinder innovation by effectively placing much greater mental transaction costs on using any kind of application online.

At LugRadio Live in San Francisco, Google developer Robert Love gave a presentation about the Android mobile platform and described some of the ways that it will empower users and developers.

Google still has some work ahead of it before Android is ready for prime time, however.