Posts by Peter Durkee

DocuSign forged – crooks crack email system and send nasties

There must've been another similar run that went out as we got around 30 of them, but they were from all different ip addresses having nothing to do with Docusign. Presumably a botnet was doing the honors.

Bullyboy Apple just blew a $500m hole in our wallet, cries Qualcomm

Wait, Apple made a statement to the Register? That should be the headline!

Online ad scam launders legions of pirates and pervs into 'legit' surfing

Flashback

Does this remind anyone else of what Wall St was doing a decade ago with subprime mortgages?

Watch out Wizard, Bezos wants the Emerald City for himself

Not quite accurate

Calling this area the city's best office space is misleading, and gives the impression that Amazon is just swallowing existing premium office space. The South Lake Union area is north of downtown Seattle and was, until recently, considered a light industrial area dotted with warehouses and car dealerships. The reason it became available was that much of it was bought up by Paul Allen some years ago with the idea of making it into a big park. That plan ran into resistance though, so they fell back to the next plan, which was to turn it into a biotech hub. That worked out better and there are some biotech companies in the area now, but it didn't fill it up as much as hoped. This is when Amazon stepped in and started building, having outgrown their previous headquarters in the very cool old Pac Med building south of downtown. The point is, at this point, if this area is indeed part of the "city's best office space," it's all the doing of Amazon with much help from Paul Allen.

Why Microsoft is Acorn and Symbian is the new CP/M

Blackberry

It's not a perfect analogy, but I vote that RIM is Wang. Both are platforms that came into their markets from a different direction than the everyone else, email in the case of Blackberrys, and Word Processing in the case of Wang, and then had to merge into the mainstream. In both cases they leveraged their strength in their previous role to keep them afloat while they performed the merge, and for now it looks like RIM is having better luck at it than Wang did.

Peter