11th November 2006 Archive

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• Motorola buys Good

  RIM shot

  Motorola has bought Good Technology for an undisclosed sum. Good is RIM's chief rival for corporate mobile messaging - the two have a bitter history of legal battles - and claims 12,000 corporate accounts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; Good is privately held and does not disclose earnings information. The move follows …

  Mobile 11 Nov 2006, 00:08

• Microsoft's patent promise 'empty'

  And deadly

  Microsoft's promise not to whack unarmed free software developers is useless - and no protection from Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel. That's the view of former Freedom Software Foundation executive director Bradley Kuhn. Kuhn says the pledge, formally called the "Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers" and part of …

  Operating Systems 11 Nov 2006, 00:16

• Pam Anderson's poker palace goes titsup

  Bombshell replaced by wrinkled cowboy

  The collapse of internet gaming activity following the recent enactment of anti-gambling legislation in the United States has claimed another victim- Pamelapoker.com, the online poker website founded by none other than Pamela Anderson. Pamelapoker.com was the latest attempt by a Hollywood celebrity to cash in the Texas Hold’em …

  Music and Media 11 Nov 2006, 01:31

• Whatever happened to... The Wisdom of Crowds?

  Prediction markets flunk the democracy test

  Future social historians looking back at the web cult - which met in San Francisco this week for a $3,000-a-head "summit" - may wonder what made them tick. Scholars could do worse than examine their superstitions. We'll bet that lurking on the bookshelf of almost every "delegate" was a copy of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of …

  Music and Media 11 Nov 2006, 15:29