Recently NASDAQ
stock exchange said goodbye to SCO, when their stock price dropped to
practically zero,
and the company filed for bankruptcy. I'm quite disappointed though, that it
lasted for so long and they still had enough cash for day to day operations
even though courts confirmed they used FUD practices. As it turned out, SCO doesn't have any
intellectual property rights for Linux source code, as they claimed with all
the bells and whistles in 2003.
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Conan O'Brien recorded quite a funny movie from Intel headquarters. It
remarkable that the company agreed to show that… Lots of fun but also
serious criticism of giant firms. Admittedly, one of the big companies I
know doesn't look that bad though, as you can see in the pictures below:
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It might seem that after
the previous scandal with rootkit software on CDs, Sony will be more
cautious. Well… it seems that one lesson of PR is not enough.
F-Secure labs
found rootkit-like software on USB pendrive integrated with fingerprint
reader, made by the very same company.
Recently I have visited the office of IBM
Poland in business and because of that I got some new gadgets for my
collection. As an old gadgetology maniac, let me show you what does IBM have
in stock.
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