6th January 2007 Archive
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Broadcom, Bluetooth and that patent lawsuit
Analysis Who do you think you are fooling?
What do these companies have in common: Matsushita and its Panasonic unit, Samsung, and Nokia? Two answers: they are all companies named in a patent lawsuit over Bluetooth. And (say wireless engineers) they are also companies where Broadcom would very much like to sell more Bluetooth technology. That leaves us with a few …
VoIP 6 Jan 2007, 09:02
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BOFH plays Pass the Password
Episode 1 Resolution time
2007, what a landmark year! A time for striving onward in the pursuit of excellence and a time for putting behind us the upsets of the past year. Upsets like me getting trapped in a lift and having to spend several hours contemplating a bucket-based toilet system in full view of the CCTV camera... ...And upsets like The PFY …
BOFH 6 Jan 2007, 09:02
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A Brief History of Information
Part 2 From Shannon to Dar Interweb
In the centuries of use before its modern redefinition, as we've seen in Part 1, "information" had already toted up a formidable list of ambiguities. For example, it's an action in some usages and a thing in others, it's both singular and plural, and it's both an informal assertion of fact as well as a procedure for making a …
Bootnotes 6 Jan 2007, 10:02
