Week In Review 16W2010
The big story of the week was Engadget getting blurry pics of a 4G iPhone prototype, Gizmodo buying it hot for five grand, the Gizmodo guys being a total douches by outing the name and picture of the guy who “lost” the phone and then posting a letter from Apple asking for the phone back, Jason’s Chen house being raided by the police and then the media covering wether ‘blogers’ are journalists and wether the police could apprehend a journalist’s work materials. Pheeeew. It also resulted in me delisting Giz cause they behaved like 13 year olds on the whole matter.
So Adobe is playing going, going, gone be delaying Flash 10.1 to 2H2010 (has I had predicted). Nobody’s too upset though cause the first thing you do when you get a phone with Flash is getting FlashBlock to block the sulkiness.
The ACTA Cabal released the draft text. I’m glad to note the ACTA Cabal fully supports rights to privacy and online anonymity. They support it by only publishing a text which “does not identify participants’ positions in respect of square bracketed options”. We understand individual governments being afraid of finding themselves publicly linked to the absurdities they promote and defend in private and in result publishing the ACTA draft Wikileaks style. Meanwhile, India overhauled its Copyright law with even more fair use protection.
The Irish High Court ruled it’s OK to cut households from the Internet on suspected copyright infringement. The general idea the High Court seems to have of the Internet is it’s a thief’s den with no general interest or bearing in everyday life. Ireland, remember, is the country that recently made “blasphemy” (such as, God is delusion created by fundamentalist organized religions to ascend to power) a crime. Yes, Ireland, though crimes and cutting people off from free speech and information just because some random guy said so is clearly the way pull yourself from the current crisis. Forget Portugal, Ireland will be the next Greece as Google, Intel and all other high tech companies based there pull out. Happy potato farming Ireland!
Speaking of Google, Google will publish information about Government requests to access to user data. Seems to be US only. More on Google, Youtube now has a fair use button that will relist a DMCA delisted video. It will also probably land you in court but, you believe you are right!
This week was financial week. [Apple posted record sales and profit])(http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/apple-has-another-record-quarter-posts-3-07b-profit/) and Nokia had a good year but not good enough.