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Browsing Posts published on February 19, 2007

Taken from the BBC. AOL has joined Microsoft in supporting Open ID, giving the free identification scheme 63 million new users. OpenID is a decentralised identification system that lets individuals use a single password for any site that supports it. This is great news for Open ID which has been slow to take off despite [...]

PC sales rose the week of Vista’s launch, but apparently they won’t last. Sales of desktop PC sales for the first week in February rose 180.6% compared to the same week last year. Likewise? sales of notebooks also rose 187.8% for that first week in Feb. Also interesting to note that the average selling price [...]

Or so say some… A senior executive for the Aussie telco Telstra says that Apple’s iPhone is pretty much doomed. Operations chief Greg Winn said that Apple was not a mobile phone manufacturer and should have “stuck to its knitting”. and… “You can pretty much be assured that Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and ZTE [...]

Daring Fireball has posted a humorous, and accurate PR-speak to Plain English translation of Macrovision’s CEO’s response to Steve Jobs’ Open Letter on DRM. Bookmark to: Hide Sites