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"The internet has become an essential part of living in the 21st century, it uses public infrastructure and it is time we treat it as a public utility. The electric company has no say over what you power with their service, the ISPs have no right to decide what you can and can not download". He went on to say that while he believes copyright infringement is unethical, it is not surprising that as the law evolves to disrespect the public domain, that the public would grow to disrespect copyrights. -  Carl Bermanson, New Jersey gubernatorial candidate On Monday, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon began  rolling out the Copyright Alert System , aka "six strikes." This escalating series of alerts replaces the RIAA and MPAA's previous copyright enforcement schemes, which focused primarily on suing college students, grandmothers, and dead people (not necessarily in that order). A first Alert means that an owner of copyrighted ...

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From the mouth of the babes! So, folks you heard it from the biggest Microsoft authority Bill Gates himself - the Windows Phone strategy is a mistake! I have been saying that in this blog for a while now especially in regards to Nokia whose fortunes tumbled since it bedded Microsoft in 2011 .  "There's a lot of things like cellphones where wedidn't get out in the lead early. We didn't miss cellphones, but the way that we went about it didn't allow us to get the leadership." It is not very often that the heads of giant corporations speak the truth, nor even hint at it, so we have to take Gates' statement for more than just its face value. Admitting that Microsoft failed with its ill-recieved mobile operating system reverberated like an A bomb through the tech community drawing glee from its competitors and scores of denial from its supporters and astroturfers. The question of course remains: will Gates demand Ballmer's removal as Microsoft...

So Apple reports its record sales figures for the last quarter and its stocks tumble while all the tech junkies and analysts shift their attention to the next king on the consumer electronics block - Samsung. This is even more interesting in the light of the fact that Samsung does not release its quarterly sales figures, only the number of shipped items. So, on what merit can Samsung be put on the tech throne? Lets challenge the usual data collectors such as IDC whose recently published data suggest that Apple's tablet market share had fallen to only 43%, behind that of Google's Android. However, an surge in mobile web usage by iOS devices, matched by an even greater decline in Android web traffic since November, is calling into question figures from IDC that reported an apparent, significant slippage by Apple in global tablet market share. As noted in a report by Fortune , web statistics by Net Applications indicate that iOS users have actually increased their ...