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Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe

Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobedo you honestly this this fixwill last? I can almost guarantee by the time you read this, there is a work around. "just use the google" and ye shall find.the most effective way to curb "piracy" is to ask for reasonable prices, gouge...

Tags: Corporate communications, SECURITY, encryption, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web video, Amazon Web video leak, Adobe Systems Inc., video, Internet video, leak

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

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Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best luxe Mac accessories

What do you get for that special person on your list already owns a Mac, iPod and a nice digital camera? Accessories! Here are my picks for the Best Luxe accessories ($200 and up) that are perfect for the Mac user with everything. Don't forget...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Accessory, Video, Blu-ray, Camera, FlipShare Software, 7xx-series, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday sales

Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. Netbooks FTW! Chalk it up to a small form factor (7-10 in., about 3 lbs.) and an even smaller...

Tags: Monitor, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sales, LCD, MSI, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Sage to step into the on-demand ring

News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...

Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward

Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff.  For the...

Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study

The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...

Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-02

Google Chrome and the extension conundrum

Google appears to be on the extension bandwagon for its Chrome browser, but that also opens a Pandora's box. In an extensions document via Stephen Shankland and Aaron Boodman Google outlines its plan to build extensions for Chrome. Extensions are the most requested feature for Chrome. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Top Web companies in October 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time 1. Google 128,667 1:57:26 2. Microsoft 121,819 2:35:43 3. Yahoo! 117,715 3:22:08 4. AOL LLC 88,028 3:34:41 5. News Corp. Online 78,135 1:36:45 6. eBay 60,543 1:40:32 7. InterActiveCorp 60,092 0:17:20 ...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Nokia's N97: Is this your future netbook?

Nokia on Tuesday rolled out its N97, a high-end smartphone with a 3.5 inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and social location software to allow people to use Facebook, MySpace and other sites on the go. As I play with--and ponder--the netbook I have and all the tradeoffs...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Nokia N97, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

IT Dojo: Stop Check Disk from constantly running when Windows Vista starts [video]

Windows Vista's Check Disk utility is a good tool for detecting and potentially fixing file system errors. But sometimes, Check Disk doesn't behave as it should. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler offers advice on what to do when Vista's Check Disk tool malfunctions. Once you've watched this IT...

Tags: Disk, Information Technology, File System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Tool, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark

Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Compare prices with the iPhone

Here's a cool iPhone trick: Download the free Snappr application for the iPhone and iPod touch iTunes. Scan the 2D Codes and (the first of it's kind) 1D Barcodes found on books and movies and stuff and get all kinds of price and shopping...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 2D Codes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Joost arrives for iPhone

Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?

At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the standard Windows vs. Linux bickering, but there were also a lot...

Tags: Desktop, Americans With Disabilities Act, Desktop Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Remote Access, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Cyber Monday traffic better than last year

If Web traffic translates into online sales, this year's holiday season is gearing up to much better than last year's - contrary to the doom-and-gloom forecasts for the holiday season. Traffic to online retail sites today - Cyber Monday - far exceeded last year's Cyber Monday traffic....

Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected.  As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-01