Tuesday Evening Links

(1) Based on what I've read so far of the materials involved in this case, it appears that repeated attempts were made to inform the webhost that their customer was Up To No Good, and that the webhost failed to act on that information.

(2) An astonishing number of webhosts, email providers, and just ordinary domain owners have failed to read RFC 2142 and do what it says. This means that they have -- either through ignorance, incompetence, laziness or just contrariness -- done the Internet equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears so that they can't hear problem reports. And of course, many of subsequently feign shock that whatever-it-is has been going on for a very long time, and have their paid professional spokesliars say things like "We were unaware..."

Google’s Internet browser, Chrome, is about to achieve something of a coup over its rivals at Microsoft and Mozilla, as Sony has confirmed that Chrome will be the default browser choice on all of its Vaio computers sold in the United States going forward.

This Google/Sony alliance was preceded by another recently, when the two media companies made a deal to make more than a million public domain books available on Google Books for users of Sony’s e-book Reader devices.

Google told The Financial Times it was working with other companies to forge some similar deals

said by BF69:

Considering IE comes with Windows what are they going to do remove it? Sorry only I should be able to remove features from the OS. Not Sony.