Dass die Chatkontrolle dramatische Folgen für unser aller Grundrechte hätte, ist inzwischen allenthalben bekannt. Dass ihre Einführung aber auch die Open-Source-Community hart treffen würde, wird hingegen noch kaum diskutiert.
Nach eineinhalb Jahren Verhandlungsmarathon ist das wohl wichtigste digitalpolitische Vorhaben von Ursula von der Leyen in trockenen Tüchern. Es schafft umfassende Regeln für Giganten wie Amazon, Google und Facebook.
Was kurzfristig den Unterricht sichern soll, wird langfristig negativ auf unsere Bildung und unsere Gesellschaft wirken. Chaos macht Schule zeigt Auswege.
Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s offices to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen. The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, covered a number of topics, but one of the main thrusts of the discussion was Apple and its control of the mobile phone market and how the two companies could team up in the battle against Apple. A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to HTML 5, while Flash loses even more ground. The announcement came the same day Steve Jobs detailed why Apple does not accept Flash on iPhone and iPad
There are plenty of online articles, whitepapers, and listserve archives that talk about Active Directory and Open Directory integration, but there hasn’t been one document that graphically walked people through the steps of setting up Active Directory from scratch and then tying Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server into that. Hopefully this document will help people get a sandbox environment up and running in less than a few hours and eliminate frustrating snags and confusing steps that are missing from most guides out there today. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afp548.com%2Farticle.php%3Fstory%3D20080304215842264
Safari is a fully functional, fast, and attractive web browser that's been available to Mac users for some time. Does it have anything special to attract Windows users? Apple plans to bundle Safari with iTunes, for iPhone and other integration.
Steve Jobs fired a quick dig at Microsoft Vista today with the announcement that the company's next operating system codenamed Leopard and due out in October would cost $129 for the Basic version, $129 for the Premium version, $129 Business version, $129
V. Bernau, H. Martin-Jung, and T. Riedl. sueddeutsche.de, (05.01.2011 2011)Parallele Printversion: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5./6. Jan. 2011, S. 18 u.d.T.: Facebook gegen den Rest der Welt.