by Chris | Feb 1, 2008 | Culture, Web
That’s a big one: It really looks like Steve Ballmer want’s to get into the search engine and online advertisement market. Today, Microsoft announced, that the company proposes the acquisition of Yahoo! at a premium of 63% to the current trading price....
by Chris | Nov 30, 2007 | Culture, Web
The Deutsche Telekom – and its subsidiary T-Mobile – antagonize designers and creatives by claiming a trademark for the color magenta at the European brandoffice. No other company should be allowed to use this color for their stationary advertising...
by Chris | Oct 19, 2007 | Culture, Web
According to techcrunch, Chine declared war on western search engines, like Google and Yahoo. All requests to those search engine sites from within China are redirected to Baidu. This takes cyberwar to a next level. Or should we say DNS-cyberwar? A cyberwar against...
by Chris | Sep 4, 2007 | Culture, Web
This blog is normally not focussing on politics, legislation, the constitutional state or democracy. But the things happening in Germany’s domestic and legal policy these days, slowly but massively affect our life and work. It affects our rule of law, our...
by Chris | Jul 30, 2007 | Culture, Development, Web
Three years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson published the first release of Ruby on Rails to the public. The paradigmatic shift of programming web applications in an elegant, pragmatic way is a present to all of us. It’s fun to draft and scaffold an application, to...