Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

"with all the tablets and e-readers hitting the market, touch screens are becoming ubiquitous" [emphasis added]

HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided? | Deep Tech - CNET News

HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided? | Deep Tech - CNET News

"Flash has indeed spread to near-ubiquity on computers, with better than 98 percent penetration, according to Adobe's statistics."

Google Docs Becomes Google ‘Any File’ as Cloud Wars Heat Up | Epicenter | Wired.com

Google Docs Becomes Google ‘Any File’ as Cloud Wars Heat Up | Epicenter | Wired.com

Ryan Singel writes:

"Google is now offering a small virtual hard drive in the cloud so you can access all sorts of files anywhere — the latest salvo in an arms race to become the dominant player in cloud services.

As with many Google initiatives, this one may be deceptively modest: When it is completely rolled out, Google Docs will accept uploads of any kind of file — not just text and spreadsheets. That move heightens their competition with Microsoft, and takes on Apple and a number of small startups in the business of creating backup and storage space on remote servers.

This business is suddenly becoming viable with the ubiquity of broadband connectivity"

Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System

Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System:

"a ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure"

Ubiquitous Connectivity is the Trend of Tomorrow According to Sam Sethi

At LinkedIn, Sam Sethi, trying to spot the trends of tomorrow, writes that ubiquitous connectivity is becoming more widespread, and there is more....

Last.fm Makeover in its Next Generation Provides More Ubiquity According to Ars Technica

David Chartier writes at ars technica on July 17, 2008 about Last.fm, "The Social Music Revolution" and its Next Generation makeover:

"Music streaming and social community Last.fm has redesigned for a more mature experience, adding more integration and ubiquity across a variety of devices."

Ubiquitous Personal Information, Law and Anti-Discrimination

The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog has a November 26, 2007 posting on
Strahilevitz on "Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information". Strahlevitz thinks anti-discrimination will be reduced by the ubiquity of personal information enabled by modern technology. We are sceptical.

The NEC gumi : ubiquitous media chip

See NEC Future Design Activity and "gumi", the
ubiquitous media chip.

Ubiquitous Computing and NEC Future Design Activity

Via digg we landed at the NEC site on Design Activity : Future Design which contains the following statement:

"This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing."

We think that the phrase "ubiquitous computing" will become more frequent as time moves on.

The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web - Mar. 3, 2006

There's that word again, at CNN Money, in their article on the The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web - Mar. 3, 2006:

"Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardware, and open-source software, the Web is mutating into a radically different beast than it has been. And that is leading to the creation of entirely new kinds of companies, new business models, and oceans of new opportunity."

Ethics for ubiquitous computing

Gen Kanai has a posting on "Ethics for ubiquitous computing" based on a longer October 28, 2004 article by Adam Greenfield entitled "All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines for user experience in ubiquitous-computing settings [1]"

As Greenfield writes:

"Ubiquitous computing is coming".

Instapundit.com makes it to UbiquitousPundit

Instapundit.com makes it to UbiquitousPundit

Glenn Reynolds finally made it into the UbiquitousPundit ranks with this statement:

Instapundit.com: ".... I'm all for open wifi in libraries, etc., but I agree that trying for ubiquitous wifi as a city project is probably silly, especially when you can already get free wifi at car washes and fast food places. Not to mention breweries and pizza joints."

Do we need any more proof than these words of the Blogfather that man's activities are principally involved with cars, food and booze?

After all, you put WiFi where the action is. Ah you lucky Staters, where WiFi is still but a fata morgana in much of Europe.

Crossposted to Law Pundit.

Ubiquity in the Internet Age (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

Ubiquity in the Internet Age (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

Jeremy Zawodny has quite a long posting on

Ubiquity in the Internet Age.

Zawodny claims that "ubiquity" is the key to winning the internet battle:

"The Internet is the new medium and it has the effect of leveling the playing field. While this isn't a new insight, let me say it in two specific ways:

1. The web enables infinite distribution of content without any special effort or infrastructure.
2. The web extends the reach of our apps and services as far as we're willing to let them go.

Both notions come back to ubiquity. If your stuff (and your brand) is everywhere, you win. The money will follow. It always does....

What to do? ...

1. do something useful really really well
2. put the user in control by allowing access to your data and services in an easy and unrestricted way
3. share the wealth "

For example, Zawodny uses Google's Blogger as an example of a company which does all three.

But of course, there are also technical requirements as well.

Interesting to note in this regard is the October 25, 2004 article, "The Road To Ubiquity" by David Haskin, Mobile Pipeline, InternetWeek, which outlines three requirements for wireless technologies becoming "winners":

"First, hardware must become readily available that handles them all. Second, mobile-access bundles that give users two or more of these wireless options are necessary, or enterprises and consumers won't be able to make heads nor tails out of all the connectivity choices. Third, Wi-Fi hotspot and wireless-broadband vendors must offer widespread roaming agreements."

But, caveat emptor. There is a dark side to ubiquity. Via TechnoTaste (Anthropology, Technology, Food and Wine) and the posting "Internet Withdrawal and Internet Ubiquity" we are led to Lester Haines at the Register and his 23 September 2004 article "Internet junkies in chilling cold turkey experiment", which shows that internet ubiquity can also lead to internet addiction.

Crossposted to LawPundit.

Yakult the Ubiquitous

There's that word again, ubiquitous, in the most unexpected of contexts.
From Southern Appeal we find out about Yakult that "It's ubiquitous in its home country," which is Japan. If you do not know who the Yakult Lady is now, you may tomorrow, even if you do not make it to Japan. Check out this great read. Put a different way, "do health and Esperanto mix?"

Ubiquitous Links and the Curmudgeonly Clerk

The Curmudgeonly Clerk has made it onto our ubiquitous blog with this statement:

"Yes, those raising concerns about the Act are terribly low-profile. The critics are practically nobodies. It's Ashcroft versus the sound of chirping crickets. Links like the foregoing ones are so ubiquitous that it is hardly wothwhile to provide them."[emphasis added]

We plugged "ubiquitous links" into Google and found to our great surprise that the phrase has in fact become a "term of art".