Monthly Archives: September 2012

Scab Boycott

Anyone with a basic interest in American Football has been made fully aware of the NFL’s use of scab refs this season. The term “scab” can be offensive with certain context and tone, but I find the term rather apt given the situation. Rather than address the actual problems with the NFL Referee Association, the […]

About Acer’s Attempted Aliyun Affair

http://allthingsd.com/20120916/google-and-alibaba-continue-warring-over-acer-phone/ Right or wrong, this isn’t the first time Google has allegedly strong-armed a hardware vendor out of using a competitor.Alibaba designing a Java based OS to benefit from an existing Android ecosystem seems awfully similar to Google designing Dalvik to benefit from an existing Java ecosystem.What if instead of Acer, the hardware vendor in […]