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- Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
- Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- iPhone Headaches
- The launch of Apple's cool new iPhone turned into a big tech meltdown for new and old customers. Kara Tsuboi looks into what happened.
- Videos 2008-07-14
- iPhone activation woes
- Get a look at the morning opening of the San Francisco Apple store and how the first person in line felt after not snagging one of Apple's next-generation smartphones.
- Videos 2008-07-11
- Hackers figure out how to resurrect year old Vista news
- It seems that hackers have figured out how to resurrect news about a Vista activation hack that's over a year old. Yesterday I received several emails from readers pointing to a post on Slashdot. The site was running a piece which pointed to a an article on APC Magazine from...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- The KB940510 update detects activation bypass (KB940510 highlights some counterfeit Windows installations)
- The KB940510 update detects activation bypass (KB940510 highlights some counterfeit Windows installations)Finally got it rightThis is what SP1 was supposedly mostly about, I'm glad they finally did it right. Well, glad is not so much the right word for it, I mean I have no desire to steal and install...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Vista Loader - Working Vista SP1 activation hack
- SP1 was supposed to make life tougher for pirates - it doesn't. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Image galleries 2008-02-12
- More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack
- My post on the Vista SP1 activation hack has generated a lot of feedback especially in the form of questions from both individuals and other media outlets. I've put together this post in order to answer some of these questions. First off, the hack. The hack in...
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app
- A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3
- 17-Dec 9:00AM PST: Post updated with more details about behavior after grace period expires. Last week Microsoft released a whitepaper outlining the changes in Windows XP Service Pack 3, which was just released for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and should be ready for final release in the first half...
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Microsoft makes IE with component activation change available to testers
- Microsoft makes IE with component activation change available to testersExcellent news for end users and web designers.Guess no one realy needed EOLAS after all...On a bug fix roll ...... presuambly because of a downward turn in software quality. I'm tending to agree with AKH - consumers are in a perpetual...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Microsoft releases details on Vista activation
- For nearly a year, Microsoft has refused to release technical details of the changes it made to its Product Activation technology in Windows Vista. The company was more than willing to speak in broad terms about the program and how it works, but it kept the details confidential, classifying them...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Problems arise with Vista's activation system
- Problems arise with Vista's activation systemEd - clarificationEd, you say this issue doesn't affect OEM systems which was my understanding also but in the image you show an OEM product key ... is the image purely "illustrative"?The tighter they squeeze the morewill defect. ]:)One More VISTA/Microsoft Activation FarceAfter having to...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Problems arise with Vista's activation system
- Last month I began hearing rumblings of problems with the product activation system in Windows Vista. Last week I got to see the problem firsthand. The bottom line? The simple act of updating some hardware drivers – without making any changes to the hardware itself – can result in the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- AT&T Q2 results, Apple announces tonight
- AT&T Q2 results, Apple announces tonightActivations vs. salesAlthough Apple would like to report strong IPhone sales vs. the number of activations, it would be worse news for ATT and ultimately Apple. A large discrepancy between activations and sales only magnifies ATT's launch problems and the subsequent lost revenue.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- iPhone activations disappoint
- Early AT&T's iPhone activation numbers disappoint investors and analysts.I'm not sure what analysts were expecting from the two-day window of iPhone activations that fell at the end of the quarter for AT&T, but the numbers put out by AT&T fail to thrill.Here's how the figures are being reported. First, Bloomberg:The...
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Before you read too much into AT&T's iPhone activations...
- Before you read too much into AT&T's iPhone activations...Well said...having worked at that august company (at&t) for better than 10 years in the past, I am amazed that they can get a report of what they have done for two days in less than 30 days after the event. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- Before you read too much into AT&T's iPhone activations...
- AT&T reported its second quarter earnings on Tuesday and the headline grabber appears to be the fact that Ma Bell activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers in two days. But there are a few caveats before the "iPhone is disappointing" chorus gets going. For starters, AT&T's activations account for only two days...
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Apple's third quarter: All eyes on the iPhone
- Apple's third quarter: All eyes on the iPhoneI'll admit it I'm a happy camper things seem to begoing well for Apple my only one true concern is GROWTH. Sometimes a company has so much growth and in different area's like computers, iPods, iPhones and various software projects like iTunes and...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activation
- BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activationcorrection: swap Jim Courtney for Phil WolffRIM is in the Toronto area, Jim's back yard. He's also an active blackberry user and a RIM stockholder.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activation
- Phil Wolff of Skype Journal found himself at BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's annual meeting this week in Waterloo, Ontario.Major takeaways:As first reported June 28, RIM's income is 76% devices, 16% service, 5% software, 3% other."And when I asked at the RIM meeting why they had shipped 2.4 million units...
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
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