Google's Mac Picasa Uploader Installs More Without Asking
If you recently installed Google's Picasa Web Albums Uploader you got a little more than you bargained for. open "LaunchAgents" folder and delete the "com.google.keystone.agent.plist" file I hate applications that check for updates without asking me. Read more [...]
Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?
Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights. Read more [...]
Google's Emotionless Blogspot Robots Kill Google's Blog
A friend of mine recently told me about some troubles he had when Blogspot's spam detection system decided that his blog was a sblog (spam blog). What makes things worse is that folks can't easily backup a blogspot blog, though they do offer a complicated ten step procedure to save your blog. Read more [...]
High ground, a Corporate Illusion
—eBay spokesman Hani Durzy eBay was a bit upset because Google planned an event to promote Google Checkout on the same night eBay is holding a Paypal event. Read more [...]
Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny
Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. My brother showed me a couple of other cases of slightly evil and very evil being kind of funny. Read more [...]
Secret Shame: why I don't use Yahoo
would like people believe it cares (it doesn't), so its spokesperson reminds us all that Companies doing business in China must comply with Chinese law or its local employees could be faced with civil and criminal penalties. Changing the way American companies do business in China can only be positive— ultimately business won't be lost because the Chinese government wants China to be modern and global. Read more [...]
