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Nerd News Today; 4/16

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Maybe I should call it NAB News Today.

Early peek into Apple keynote at NAB 2007. It’s the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 trade show, and of course Apple is one of the keynoters. This is an early peek at what’s coming during that speech. My predictions–or maybe just my fervent hope? Some pointed words on […]

Nerd News Today; 4/9

Monday, April 9th, 2007

ICANN thinking about going private…again. They’ve been talking about this or a variant for some time. Either private or owned by the UN. Right now, it’s private after that strategy was recommended in the President’s Strategy Committee report. I don’t think the UN is the way to go, but total privatization has me worried, too. […]

Nerd News Today; 4/6

Friday, April 6th, 2007

IRS has ‘tracking tech’ on its notebooks. Maybe. Love it when they try and manipulate the press. Some budding journalist spills a story a day or so ago showing that the IRS has lost about 500 notebooks to loss or theft over the last 3.5 years. So today, there are stories based on hurriedly-produced IRS […]