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Facing Lawsuits, Pirate Bay Says They Can Pay Monopoly Money

2008-05-09 13:54:00 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Monopoly money. This proves that they are out of touch with reality. They might as well ask for a billion crowns. This is fear-based propaganda; theyre trying to make it sound serious when we link to things that you download from elsewhere, Sunde told SvD. We should send them an invoice instead. All research shows that file-sharing grows the...
 
Tags: monopoly money, sunde, peter sunde, movie industry, international lawsuits, billion crowns, weild parrots, snarky come-backs, research
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-19 00:24:05 by HASH0x8baa6ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...monopoly. It was the one true superpower of IT. Yeah, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy could tweak Bill's nose and drive fast cars, boats and planes, but lets face it they were midgets compared to the Redmond giants. Microsoft rolled over competition like Lotus, Wordperfect and Netscape the way we did Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-18 14:27:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...monopoly. It was the one true superpower of IT. Yeah, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy could tweak Bill's nose and drive fast cars, boats and planes, but lets face it they were midgets compared to the Redmond giants. Microsoft rolled over competition like Lotus, Wordperfect and Netscape the way we did Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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Links List 11.7.08

2008-11-07 22:49:59 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...Monopoly debate continues. OReilly Media founder Tim OReilly and technology writer Nicholas Carr (of IT Doesnt Matter fame/infamy) have been discussing the potential for a single company to achieve monopoly control of the world of cloud computing . But whats even more interesting is the who will make a lot of money in cloud computing question
 
Tags: research panel visit, research panel, monopoly, achieve monopoly control, tech companies, omb management sets, companies, omb, forrester
 
 
 
 
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Wow, This IS Screwed!

2007-12-21 10:51:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Wow, this IS bad: " Why all Vista users should upgrade to Windows XP So, Q1 : have I seen a happy Vista user until today? Not one Q2 : Did Vista launch create a huge boost to Mac sales? Sure seems like it And Q3 : Will we ALL (apart from Linux and Mac crowds) use Vista in 2 years? Sadly, yes Such is the power of a monopoly About me:...
 
Tags: vista, happy vista user, vista users, vista launch, huge boost, mac crowds, mac sales, sadly, windows
 
 
 
 
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Show 002 - An Interview with Dan Geer

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2006-06-12 17:28:07 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Monopoly (PDF Project Athena on Wikipedia How Much Information 2003 Subscribe to IEEE Security & Privacy
 
Tags: dan, dan geer, ieee security, project athena, wikipedia, gary discuss, partial transcript, security practitioner, privacy
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...monopoly position when it wants. And it can dictate terms to any company that wants to sell iPhone software and accessories This increases Apple's bottom line. But the primary benefit of all this control for Apple is that it increases lock-in. "Lock-in" is an economic term for the difficulty of switching to a competing product. For some...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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3Com, Bain, Huawei rises from the dead - Where there is a will, there is a way

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2008-02-29 19:53:35 by HASH0x8ae8b00 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...monopoly situation in this market is not healthy. Some of the weak sisters have to be removed and strong competition will result in the industry as a whole improving and the customer will win with better products, cheaper I will be watching next Friday to see what happens but I hope they can put something together that works this time
 
Tags: 3com, healthy competitive, healthy, healthy 3com, plan, parties time, parties, acceptable plan, current stock price
 
 
 
 
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BPL Powers Down

2008-05-05 09:59:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...monopoly or duopoly controls most places in the world. Two years ago, with favorable FCC and upcoming EC decisions on BPL either released or about to happen, BPL seemed about to come into its own. I wrote a positive piece for The Economist based in large part on an enormous deployment that was contracted and underway in Texas, and a contract...
 
Tags: bpl, bpl equipment, bpl service, catalyze bpl, fcc, favorable fcc, oncor, network deployment, network
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...monopoly-per-provider-type world. Verizon is using AT&T's hard-won statewide video franchising rules in Texas to build competitive fiber in Dallas suburbs. They're apparently not bringing telecom; they're acting like a cable TV firm with data. Verizon owns chunks of territory all over due to it encompassing GTE in a deal years ago. GTE serves...