Leading Questions for Week of 6/20/05
--First Intel, now Dell. Michael Dell expressed interest last week in licensing Apple's Mac OS X. Steve Jobs has no plans to license it for PC usage - yet. Will this change his mind?
**Questions: Is a Mac-PC hybrid viable? Do recent developments signal the end of a long-festering war? How would technology as a whole be affected by such a shift in thinking?
--A piece by Declan McCullagh generated ripples in the blogosphere and among privacy advocates. The government appears to be toying with the idea of requiring ISPs to retain records of their customers' online activities. This is a tricky issue, as the original target is child pornographers. But once implemented, it could easily be used for all manner of investigations
**Questions: Internet privacy could not be a hotter button right now; what must happen to move us to the next level? Will users need to make concessions in certain areas? Or should the Internet remain the sole un-policed, un-monitored bastion of society?
--One day in the near future, we'll look back fondly on a time when Google didn't have its finger in every area of our lives. Or will we? The company plans to launch an electronic payment service this year that will directly rival PayPal.
**Questions: After all the security mishaps of late, should we be handing over all our personal data to one company? Or is a unified approach the answer to breaches? Is Google overreaching? How much diversification can one company handle?
Posted by Carla Thompson at June 22, 2005 07:47 AM
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