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EU threatens Microsoft with daily fines: EU threatens Microsoft with daily finesWell, the EU has been quite generousand legally compliant, so MS really has no choice but to capitulate. At this point in the commercial business game, too many other factors could derail a proprietary company, either domestically or internationally, the times seem to be...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Neil Barrett; Discussion threads 2005-12-22

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Neil Young gives his name to a spider: Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University (ECU) professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...; Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-09
EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo: In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout....; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-08
JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career: Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java; Videos 2008-05-06
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up the the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06

Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch: After more than seven years of lobbying by service providers, Microsoft is finally set to allow pay-as-you-go licensing for Microsoft Office and other products downloaded to PCs using streaming technologies, according to information the company recently made available to channel partners. Many observers will see the move as a new...; Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Services, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory: A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...; Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live Mesh: Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live MeshOh yeah, I can just see the data breaches...in the cloud. :)I agree - the companies that blend will seea better result. Especially the ones that require a disconnected view. It will be fun to see what happens.RE: Gillmor: Why Google...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Desktops, Digital media, Google Documents, Google Inc., Live Mesh, Gillmor, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
Apple should call PayPal's bluff: PayPal is in another stand-off with Apple over EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, but Steve Jobs & Co. may call the transaction service's bluff. According to Ryan Naraine, PayPal is about to launch a whitepaper that advocates blocking transactions from browsers that don't have...; Tags: Apple Inc., Web Browser, PayPal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Sun xVM Ops Center: I've long known that Sun is one of the few suppliers that has an entry in nearly every virtualization software category listed in the Kusnetzky Group Model. This not only allows the company to address organization's requirements at almost every level. This also means that I don't have a chance...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval: In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and...; Tags: Upheaval, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Fickr user revolt; Why I deleted my twitter account: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the weekâ€¦ Flickr video feature spurs online revolt. Not all that surprising to see a mini user revolt after Flickr finally added video uploads. A segment of the...; Tags: Flickr, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-10
Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed: Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes. ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Fox Interactive reshuffles: Social media and making money tough: Fox Interactive confirmed Friday that it has reshuffled its management and ad operations--a sign that problems monetizing Myspace persist. First, the generic headline from the statement that confirmed a lot of coverage. Fox Interactive named Adam Bain to be president of Fox Interactive Media Audience Network. Key...; Tags: Revenue, Fox Interactive Media, Social Media, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., MySpace, FIM, PaidContent, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Is celebrity contradictory with open source?: Is celebrity contradictory with open source?Celebrity journalism?Hi Dana,Thank you for posting this review of Lacy's celebrity-wishing ways. She's hardly a journalist, if we analyze her writing.And to boot, she's not the hottest. Forbes' Victoria Barrett wins that prize by leaps and bounds.Peace.ReidWegsNot necessarilyBut CS types have been rightly claiming for...; Tags: Linux, Dana, Lacy, open source, Sarah, F/OSS; Discussion threads 2008-03-10
Untangling the Microsoft mesh: "Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...; Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-10
PayPal: If a browser doesn't have anti-phishing technology (like Safari) ditch it: A PayPal executive last week recommended that its users ditch Apple's Safari browser since it doesn't have anti-phishing technology. If other phishing targets--banks, brokers and such--follow suit it could make anti-phishing technology the price of admission to recommend browsers. Infoworld last week quoted Michael Barrett, PayPal's CIO,...; Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browser, PayPal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Using bacteria as medical robots: Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...; Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-02
Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hype: Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hypeHow's all this Google specific?So...''" if you want to show financial data to an end user, you will have to allow Google’s servers a pass through your firewall to make the web service call.That’s a basic security issue. Nothing...; Tags: SEARCH, Blogging, Google Inc., Google Sites, search engine; Discussion threads 2008-02-29
Pakistan takes out YouTube: Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM eastern when someone in Pakistan announced a more specific BGP route announcement for the block...; Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, BGP, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Security, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-02-24