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"Traitorware is not some science-fiction vision of the future. It is the present. .. We believe that your software and devices should not be a tool for gathering your personal data without your explicit consent. "

Interesting IT issue related to the gathering and use of personal data.

"For the beta release of Axiis I prepared a visualization showing the historical browser breakdown of visitors to W3schools.com. Since then I've enhanced it a bit, adding the ability to filter by browser type, and Tom lent his artistic eye and did a little restyling. Although the number of Axiis tutorials out there is growing steadily, there are still very few, so I'll dive deep and explain exactly how this visualization works. "

Fascinating browser visualisation (click on the graph). Anybody spot the ironic image it makes with the Firefox logo?

"Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense."

Interesting breakdown comparing Exchange services from Apple and Microsoft.

Osterweil, research director of MIT's Education Arcade, is one of the masterminds behind a new science game made for the Smithsonian Institution. The game is a National Science Foundation-funded experiment in "alternative science education."

.. the oversized, centralized IT department of 2001 is a relic that's never coming back and IT pros need to prepare for the decentralized IT reality of the future where companies are going to keep fewer IT pros on staff, hire more consultants, and focus their IT resources on software, the cloud, and mobile devices