Another somewhat sad chapter in the life of the ZIP file. The guy who designed this excellent way of compressing files, Philip Katz, died tragically and young a few years back. Now the company he left behind, PKWare, is fighting over patents with another company, WinZip, since right now, would you believe, you can’t trade… Read More »
Well, actually the article, from research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc., doesn’t say that. But it does say Identity Theft Is Up Nearly 80 Percent, and that 7 Million U.S. Adults Were Identity Theft Victims in the Past 12 Months. Which seems to be a lot. That’s 3.4 percent of U.S. consumers, I can’t help… Read More »
From the I Know This Puts Me in The Old Attila the Hun, Died In The Wool Conservative, Young Fogey department, a story from Turkmenistan that I can’t help feeling is a step in the right direction. News Central Asia reports (and thanks to TechDirt for pointing it out) that drivers in Turkmenistan are now… Read More »
Not sure why I missed this, but it’s an important development: a federal judge has issued a critical ruling supporting a patent lawsuit against Microsoft brought by InterTrust, a tiny digital rights management company. I wrote a little about this months ago; InterTrust, bought by an investor group led by Sony Corp. of America and… Read More »
A new survey, the 2003 E-Mail Rules, Policies and Practices Survey from the American Management Association, Clearswift and The ePolicy Institute, reckons that 22% of employers have fired employees for violating email policy. That seems kinda harsh. What are people doing with their email? Here are some stats: – 52% of U.S. companies monitor incoming… Read More »