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1. Comment - Congress may see the glass half-empty on DTV transition

   (Sep 24, 2008 - 6:13 PM)

   Well, we got our coupon cards, but never used them because they'd expired by the time we were ready to use them. I know we should have acted sooner, it just wasn't a priority. Frankly, it still isn't and if we don't get broadcast TV come Feb 2009, I don't think we'll miss it. We don't watch much TV to start with and I really don't want to buy a converter box in the weeks immediately following the transition date as I imagine they will be selling for a pretty high price. Once things die down, I may get one, but we really don't need television in our lives to start with.

2. Comment - Scrabulous creators sued in United States by Hasbro

   (Jul 24, 2008 - 5:35 PM)

   While I feel that Hasbro has the right to do this, I think that the negative PR they are generating through this whole situation will come back to bite them. They would have been better off buying out Scrabulous and just starting there, even if it cost them more money up-front than developing their own version.

3. Comment - Is the latest YouTube court ruling really a 'privacy concern?'

   (Jul 3, 2008 - 2:42 PM)

   Sorry - gotta agree with the EFF and privacy advocates here. Viacom is trying to figure out a ration of user-generated content views to other views. They do not need IP addresses or logins in order to do that. (They especially don't need logins.) In fact, they could do something with just a record for each hit by video and strip everything else. The judge who made this decision really messed up on this one.
   
   Next up - requests from the ISPs for a log of who had (insert IP address here) when video xyz was viewed.

4. Comment - T-Mobile is the last of the big four to hike SMS to 20 cents

   (Jul 1, 2008 - 4:40 PM)

   Sad. Last thing we actually need is higher prices for SMS. As noted in other places, 1MB of SMS >= $1000 USD right now. That's just insane and really not worth it, especially because US customers are charged for both send AND receive.

5. Comment - Touch-screen lawsuits hit Apple, HTC, Dell, Toshiba, others

   (Jun 24, 2008 - 6:35 PM)

   What about Nintendo? Doesn't the DS fall under touch-screen capabilities? Man, patent squatters are really losing their touch these days.
   
   Hopefully someone can come up with some form of prior art and blow this away. Why do all of these holding companies seem to reside in TX, anyway?