I absolutely hate people trying to get into my business and attempting to limit my freedom. That applies to politics, business and equally, to technology. One of the main reasons I’ve never been an Apple fan – and never will be – is the fact that they engender a culture of suffocating control over consumers. [...]
PKNIC controls domain registrations for all .pk domains. You would expect it to be owned by the Government, or at least by a Pakistani company based in Pakistan. Not so. It’s actually managed and owned by a US-based company run by Ashar Nisar, a Pakistani- American. Up until very recently, there were no .PK root servers [...]
The Wall Street Journal, reporting on authority of VentureWire, seems to think that VCs might be making a comeback. The entrepreneurial environment, apparently, is improving. This sort of flies in the face of the investment data from Q1 ‘09. But, 42 VCs seem to think so, so all argument ends right there… I mean, it’s [...]
This is massive news for the IT industry by any measure. It had been anticipated for a long time and feverishly denied by Google every time speculations appeared in the press. However, they’ve come out and admitted it now. Google is busy at work building their very own desktop for mainstream desktops, netbooks and laptops. [...]
