New & Noteworthy: Apple history; FCC loses in court;
New & Noteworthy: Apple history; FCC loses in court;
Steve Jobs and the History of Cocoa, Part One In this first part of a two-part series, Simson Garfinkel and Michael Mahoney explain why Cocoa and Mac OS X aren't nearly as revolutionary as they are evolutionary -- and still in the process of refinement. The story begins with Apple's genesis in the 1970s and takes you through key events up through 1993, when NeXTSTEP began to flounder. In Part Two (Friday, May 10), Simson and Michael pick up the story with the Star Trek project and bring you to the current iteration of Mac OS X.
FCC runs afoul with court on Internet call payment From Reuters: "The Federal Communications Commission on Friday lost yet another battle in the U.S. appeals court, this time for its efforts to reform how telephone carriers are compensated for consumers dialing up the Internet." More.
Dan Gillmor on ReplayTV Video Monitoring Order From Mercury News: "Hollywood's contempt for its customers is legendary, but now the entertainment cartel has persuaded a judge to require a consumer-electronics company to spy on its own customers -- in order to help the cartel kill some technology it doesn't like." More.
The Joy of Tech cartoon looks at this week's WWDC