Pentaho Selected By Mainzer Volksbank Eg To Deliver Information Across The Enterprise

Germany’s Top Five Cooperative Bank Deploys Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition to Reduce Business Intelligence Costs and Upgrade Capabilities

Pentaho selected by Mainzer Volksbank eG to Deliver Information across the Enterprise

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Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent.

Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers

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Apple Apps Give Information to Advertisers, Suit Says

Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. was sued over claims that applications for the company’s iPhone and iPad transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent.

Apple Apps Give Information to Advertisers, Suit Says

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Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel

Time magazine's Lev Grossman's got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen (BitTorrent), Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen, Justin Frankel (Gnutella) and Sean Fanning ("Napster"). So what ever happened to the pirate apocalypse of yesteryear? In the U.S., piracy hasn't turned out to be quite as bad for content producers as everybody thought. A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office released last April labored mightily to establish a strong link between piracy and lost sales, but the results were inconclusive. What's striking about the pirate kings is that they've been much less successful in the straight world than they were as pirates. An anarchic worldview coupled with brilliant code doesn't travel as well as you'd think in the bean-counting world of legitimate commerce. Good code empowers users by giving them choices and options, but empowered users aren't necessarily good for business. What you need to hit it really big in legitimate commerce is an authoritarian sensibility that limits users to doing what you want them to. The Men Who Stole the World (Thanks, Airshowfan, via Submitterator!)  Jon Johansen acquitted! - Boing Boing Boing Boing: DVD Jon on VLC and Apple's iTunes singles Napster rises from grave - Boing Boing Welcome to the Boing Boing guestblog, Joseph Menn! - Boing Boing Boing Boing: MPAA, Bram Cohen announcement today in Hollywood ......

Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel

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Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes

We've been talking about information overload for a long time -- the Gutenberg era was characterized by a panic over all the damned books all over the place, but even Ecclesiastes is worried about infoglut:

Complaints about information overload, usually couched in terms of the overabundance of books, have a long history -- reaching back to Ecclesiastes 12:12 ("of making books there is no end," probably from the 4th or 3d century BC). The ancient moralist Seneca complained that "the abundance of books is distraction" in the 1st century AD, and there have been other info-booms from time to time -- the building of the Library of Alexandria in the 3d century BC, or the development of newspapers starting in the 18th century.

But what happened in the Renaissance was, like digital technology in our own time, transformative. It took overload to an entirely new order of magnitude. Up to this point, every existing book had been copied by hand -- a task that could easily take one copyist a year or more. Books were expensive commodities, most often produced on commission and paid for in advance. The great medieval libraries accumulated manuscripts by the hundreds, but few people ever had access to that many books.

The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen major urban centers, with many other short-lived presses in operation. Contemporaries at first raved about the great speed with which books could be printed, and also about the drop in price -- by 80 percent on one contemporary's estimate in 1468.

Information overload, the early years (via Making Light)

Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes

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