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Submission + - How to sell to a pirate (po-ru.com)

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theonlyholle

on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @05:01AM

theonlyholle writes: "Paul Battley has an excellent blog post on "how to sell to a pirate" that shows how artificial restrictions on media distribution kept him from paying for the content he wanted to see: "At any stage up until the last, you could have had me as a customer, if you were willing to supply it there and then in a format I could use. However, because of licensing, region coding, and DRM, my best option was the 'pirate' one.""

Submission + - petition to switch off iPhone autocorrection (please-let-us-disable-autocorrection-steve.com)

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theonlyholle

on Friday September 19, 2008 @06:03AM

theonlyholle writes: "A swiss web designer has created an online petition asking Apple to allow users to switch off the auto-correction feature on the iPhone. This has long been one of the more annoying features of the iPhone firmware, especially since it gives preference to its own suggestions over what the user typed. German speaking users have been particularly plagued with the iPhone's strange obsession with umlauts..."

Submission + - The trouble with the latest AJAX gimmicks (po-ru.com)

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theonlyholle

on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @05:09PM

theonlyholle writes: "Paul Battley hits it spot on in his blog article on the pains of using so many AJAX pages on small screen devices today. Using the oh-so-popular lightboxes as an example, he shows how they take away user choice and usability (not just, but especially on devices like the EeePC). Commenters suggest that most designers hate these features, but customers want them anyway and sales people are happy for the extra hours to bill them for."

Submission + - Mobile security challenges (android-devices.org)

Submitted by theonlyholle on Monday July 07, 2008 @10:50AM

theonlyholle writes: Since it's a boring post holiday weekend Monday, how about a look at mobile security? The Android Devices Blog has a look at some past and present challenges. How long until we see the first mobile devices based botnet sending SMS spam to the whole world?

Submission + - GPL upheld in court

Submitted by theonlyholle on Friday September 22, 2006 @08:31AM

theonlyholle writes: The GPL has been upheld in court in Germany in a case brought by gpl-violations.org against D-Link. D-Link claim to be happy with the result and the fact that the GPL is now tried and tested...

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