California has banned mandated RFID implants (see George Ou).

Mr. Stallman makes no concessions in his attitude towards free software (not open source!!!, see John Carroll).

(Sorry for the typo in the headline)

Nicholas Carr writes about the crowd selecting dumber news in Digg et al than the smart editors  in mainstream media.

Nicholas, you don't have to read Diggs home page!
There is more in citizen journalism than the top diggs, reddits etc. You also can read something no one has suggested. You can read things almost no one knows of. That's the big difference to mainstream media.

Of course, 2.0 has not made us smarter. It just has given us more choice.

Update: TechCrunch also posts about the survey Nicholas Carr's post is based on.

Whether or not Apple is cheating you with the new iPhone ringtones (see David Berlind). You need them.

(Another iPhone-price-cut-off-cartoon is here)

The last chapter of our small series. See also chapter 1, chapter 2 and chapter 3.

Just another chapter of this and this post.

See Dennis Howlett about enterprise software marketing.

Six more specifications in the SOA world (see Joe McKendrick).

This is a continuation of this post.

See Michael Krigsman about rescueing projects.

(Update: Chapter 2 is here)

See Russell Shaw about an interview with Steve Jobs about the iPhone price cut.

See Paula Rooney on ZDNet.

Microsoft has filed a patent application about a process to prevent church members from viewing undesirable TV programs (see Slashdot).

See Wired's Bryan Gardiner on the great names of Web 2.0 companies.

(Another part of the series about the maybe most famous two Steves in IT history - the one from Cupertino and the one Redmond, part 1 is here)

Good news for Microsoft after the WGA server outage (thank god it was just an human error, see Slashdot):
The privacy agancy from the German state of Schleswig-Holstein awarded Microsofts WGA a privacy seal (I've found just a link in German).

It's easier being a Facebook founder than being not (see TechCrunch, Techmeme and a follow-up on TechCrunch).

The SciFi writers has discovered DMCA (see Slashdot).
It's time that they use the whole notion of IP in their stories.

See Scobles latest and maybe last blog post of this story.

Offshore development is more than just developing off shore (see the blog post from Michael Krigsman).

Michael Krigsman blogs about 101 project management tips.
Here's my humble upgrade of his first tip.