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[Day Permalink] Wednesday, January 31, 2007

[Item Permalink] Vista and Microsoft monopoly -- Comment()
Rivals Voice Complaints About Microsoft’s New System: "Rivals of Microsoft are charging that the new Vista operating system is the company’s effort to extend its monopoly to the Internet." [NYT > Technology]


[Item Permalink] They are watching me and you -- Comment()
There is increasinly surveillance on all levels from streets and public buildings to homes to airports etc. What is the cost to society? When huge datasets are mined for information about suspicious activities, what happens when thousands are innocently accused? (My new column in Finnish, Elvis, iPod ja valvontayhteiskunta.)