By Denis Campbell
Gary McKinnon of Crouch End, North London, was branded a ‘cyber-terrorist’ by the US government. In 2002 he was arrested for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers. The US Justice, Defence and Homeland Security Departments have been fighting a seven-year long extradition battle to the USA under the 2003 UK Extradition Act. They [...]
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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time (Reprise)
Posted on 28 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (4) | Tags: 7-7 Tube bombings, aspergers-syndrome, Bush Administration, Clark McClelland, CSN, curious incident of the dog in the night-time, cyber terrorism, Dan Ackroyd, David Blunkett, David Gilmour, Dustin Hoffman, Ed Gibson, Edward Fitzgerald, EU Court of HUman Rights, federal prosecutors, Gary McKinnon, Graham Nash, Home Secretary, Janis Sharp, Kaim Todner, Karen Todner, Kevin Anderson, mark haddon, Microsoft, nasa, Natwest 3, paul harvey, Pentagon, Peter Gabriel, Peter Howson, Pink Floyd, QC, Rain Man, Scott Christie, Sting, The Guardian, the rest of the story, UFO obsession, UK Extradition Act, UK House of Lords, war games
Google Plots World Dominance Bwaa-ha-haaaa: OK to Introduce OS Based on Chrome
Posted on 08 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: Chrome, Disturbance in The Force, google, Google Chrome, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, Open Systems, operating system, search engine, Steve Ballmer, Vista
By Denis Campbell
Move over Steve Ballmer, Google’s coming after your main market. Thought you could just sneak out Windows Seven after the calamity of Vista? The New York Times is reporting this morning that it’s Game On! On the heels of your anti-competition ruling and massive EU fine, the news from Redmond cannot be good.
Google’s [...]
Budweiser, Leuven Belgium
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABN-AMRO, Belgians, Brahma Beer, Bud logo, Budweiser, Carl Icahn, CEO of Yahoo!, Champion's League, Cobra, Czech Bud, Dannon yogurt, Danone in France, Dutch-British consortium, Flanders' Field, flex global financial muscles, Fortis Group, Giant Supermarket, Grolsch, Guinness, Heineken, Holland's biggest bank, In-Bev St Louis, Jerry Yang, Labatts, Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Oklahoma vs. Texas style), owned by ING Group, Royal Ahold, Shell, St. Louis, Stella Artois, The Netherlands, upset, walked away from $46.5 billion dollars, Washington
Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]
Google’s Real Strategy
Posted on 02 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: AdSense, AdWords, Apple, attack on Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, away from desktops, better and continually improving product, Bill and Steve’s excellent adventure, Chrome, chutzpah, do no harm, dominate, Earth, encourage developers to create more synchronised produc, Firefox, Froogle, google, Google application turns to gold, Google Checkout, judge ordered, Maps, Microsoft, militant anti-IE or MS ethos, minutiae, mobile devices, money, more web searches happen from iPhones, Mozilla, MS insisted they could not unbundle Internet Explorer f, muscle, open source, Orkut, Real Strategy, running on its own Web browser, Search, shift the ballgame, spring dinosaur merger dance, thumbed their noses at courts everywhere, trumped by Sergei and Eric’s Chrome, US and EU antitrust trials, We are Microsoft fear us, Web platform, Web way, Yahoo!, YouTube
When Microsoft and Yahoo! failed in their spring dinosaur merger dance, who knew Google was snickering in the background knowingly waiting to launch its own attack on the vaunted Microsoft Internet Explorer browser? Remember those long summer days filled with US and EU antitrust trials? Those cases of mind-numbing minutiae where judge after judge ordered [...]
Now What?
Posted on 20 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, MSN, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo!
(Reprise article)
The fish at the end of the Pixar film “Finding Nemo” bob on the surface of Sydney Harbour in plastic bags unable to break through to the big ocean below them. The executive teams at Microsoft and Yahoo! seem in a similar situation and face much bigger hurdles whether or not they eventually merge.
Carl [...]
Yang’s Bluff Called, Microsoft Blinks
Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $47.5 billion dollars, Allstate, American Express, Carly Fiorina, Caterpillar, disney, Dow Chemical, Fortune 500, hp, IBM, Insurance Leader of the Year, Jerry Yang, Jim Schiro, Kraft Foods, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Price Waterhouse, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, Time Warner, Yahoo!
14-years ago Yahoo! started in a Silicon Valley trailer. Saturday night Microsoft proved that yes, theirs was indeed bigger and walked away after saying $47.5 billion dollars(!) was enough money and $52 billion was too much to pay.
Today, analysts are saying Mr. Yang has a few months to convince investors that this was the right [...]
Somebody’s Watching Me and You!
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1984, Business & Economy, data-mining, Double-click, George Orwell, google, hijack worm, internet, Microsoft, privacy, spyware, technology, web surfing, Yahoo!
I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of
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