Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Category: Stories

  • Rescuing Palm

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    You know you’re in trouble when your revenue is $1bn less than you’d expected for the year. But a few companies might envy being in Palm’s position. It has an excellent product it can’t sell, and in webOS an asset that wealthy rivals – Nokia, Samsung or Microsoft – would pick up in a snap.……

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  • LibDems back copyright takedowns

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Two LibDem peers have tabled an amendment allowing the Courts to grant injunctions against ISPs – blocking off sections of the internet found to host infringing material. It’s similar to the DMCA-style proposal punted by the BPI in the new year, which we exclusively revealed. Injunctions are already a legal tool against infringement, but the…

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  • Suits 2.0 at the BBC

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Bureaucracy is the one sure winner in the BBC’s strategic review – the suits and wonks. It’s sort of like natural selection turned upside: in a changing environment, the most useless survive. Mark Thompson’s review, leaked to the Times today, was supposed to review the Corporation’s output, and it could have helped made inroads into…

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  • After Napster, bringing P2P in from the cold
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    After Napster, bringing P2P in from the cold

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “The technology was sort of there. That software was there, and it was good – I wouldn’t do it that differently now. The basic model was just as appropriate then as it is now.” – Chris Castle. Read more at The Register… Read More

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  • SpinVox carcass laid bare in final accounts

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “Dragon’s Den TV star Julie Meyer described SpinVox as “the first major technology success story out of Europe”, but the company’s final accounts show a business running at a huge loss, spending heavily to acquire customers, and with interest payments alone exceeding income.” Read more at The Register…… Read More

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  • Obama plagiarist has a legal posse

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Artist Shepard Fairey is facing a Grand Jury probe for falsifying evidence in a copyright case. Fairey was suing Associated Press over the use of an copyright image Fairey had used as the basis for a popular Obama election poster. To the dismay of the Boing Boing crowd, Fairey turned out not to be a…

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