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ChromeOS' Thin Client Model Stifles Creativity Online

23 November 2009 - 3:17am | Jesse K-S
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia

With ChromeOS, Google is betting the sever farm on a new model of computing that leaves applications on web servers and trades power for ease of use and reliability. Optimized for web work and little else, ChromeOS devices will be zippy browsers. But without the ability to run native applications, ChromeOS devices may not have the necessary power and flexibility users need to produce web content. If this is the model Google sees for the Internet's future, the web will be a quiet place.

IBM Gives MS Office the Boot, Moves to OpenDocument Format

19 September 2009 - 11:54pm | Jesse K-S
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia

In two days, IBM will have finished preparations to transition all of its employees away from Microsoft's Office suite to their own version of the OpenOffice.org suite, Lotus Symphony. By Monday, every IBM computer will have Symphony installed, and the company will begin creating and sharing only open format documents. The move marks the most significant shift away from Microsoft's de facto standard office suite and proprietary document format by a single company, and—if well documented and supported—could help many other businesses do the same.

France: Internet Access a Universal Right While US Lags Behind In Broadband Rankings

12 June 2009 - 11:02pm | Jesse K-S
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia

The French Constitutional Council's recent decision against that nation's "HADOPI" Internet copyright law, which required ISPs to disconnect users after three purported copyright violations, naming Internet access a universal human right and bringing France into alignment with the rest of the European Union, which already rejected such "three strikes" laws last month.

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