Five reasons to use Google Chrome (and not IE9 beta)

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Yesterday, Preston Gralla proffered his Five reasons to use Internet Explorer 9. Today, here's Richi's riposte juste: fanboi-free, absent apologia. I give you: five reasons for Windows users to switch to Google Chrome, rather than the IE9 beta. Yes, it's The Long View again...
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Another DRM plan bites the dust: HDCP key leaked

  The Long View (Computerworld)

How many metaphorical bloody noses will it take before the movie and music industries realize that DRM is a waste of their time -- and ours? As if we needed more evidence, now the HDCP Master Key has been cracked (or so we're told). Does that mean you can bypass HDCP now? Does it even matter? If not, why not? Answers aplenty in today's The Long View...

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Nokia's death march

  The Long View (Computerworld)

If you thought Nokia was in deep trouble, I reckon you'd be right. To summarize the trouble: lacking leadership, poor platforms, patchy phones. I look at the challenges ahead, in The Long View...
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Microsoft "complicit" in Russian dissident crackdown

  The Long View (Computerworld)

The NYT's Clifford J. Levy published some worrying allegations about Microsoft yesterday. If I'm reading between his lines correctly, Levy is all-but blaming Microsoft of helping the Russian government shut down political dissidents. The article alleges that the Russians found a quasi-legal way of disrupting opposition groups, by way of bogus software piracy investigations -- and that Microsoft aids and abets this chilling of free speech. Let's take a look, in The Long View...
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