Palm scored a huge licensing coup by signing up Sony to make Palm OS devices.
www.transmeta.com. This web page is here. Steve Champeon sent me a handy tip on how to get a bit more info than is presented on the home page.
First Philips, now Everex. Another Windows CE licensee is bailing out.
Today Salon compares and contrasts Fox’s “Greed” and ABC’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” I’ve watched every episode of Millionaire even though Regis Philbin drives me nuts. I’ve never watched “Greed” under the assumption that it’s a derivative piece of crap. I hate it when the networks try to get in the ballgame with weak shows modelled after popular shows on other networks. Joyce Millman’s article validates my decision not to watch in a big way.
Robert X. Cringely takes to his bully pulpit to mine interesting tidbits from the FOF this week, and agree with Judge Jackson on most counts. But hey, Mr. Cringely and I have both been taking Microsoft to task for as long as I can remember, so I’m not surprised by his take on the matter.
At Salon today, Tim O’Reilly writes about Microsoft’s efforts to dominate the Web on the server side. It was Tim who initially alerted the world to Microsoft’s evil license terms for Web servers running on Windows NT Workstation in order to force people to use Windows NT Server, which ships with Internet Information Server preinstalled. O’Reilly’s article recounts that miserable episode, refreshing my memory on one of the dirtiest tricks Microsoft ever played.