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Sony casts Audible Magic for antipiracy push

Sony casts Audible Magic for antipiracy pushHouse ArrestNice to see companies looking for more and more ways to track us. I love that warm feeling of everything I do being tracked and monitored by companies such as Sony. They think they're big brother, but it's not right. ...

Tags: Piracy, Peer to peer (P2P), Sony Corp., Audible Magic, antipiracy

Discussion threads 2004-05-28

CopySense Appliance Case Study

Bentley is a business university with an enrollment of over 4000 undergraduate and 1300 graduate students located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading was causing two concerns at Bentley College. First, P2P software clients were proliferating viruses and spyware, which in turn generated up to 75% of all help...

Tags: Bentley College, Audible Magic, P2P, Bentley, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

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IBM Acquires Transitive

Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-24

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

When to spend cash in a SaaS business

Revealed: the magic formula that helped enterprise web analytics provider Omniture sustain rocketing growth, dwarf its competitors and become the second-largest listed pureplay SaaS provider in the US by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Omniture Inc., Magic Number, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, GAAP, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Will email and text messages get shorter with the BlackBerry Storm?

I am admittedly a very big fan of physical keyboards on my mobile phones and have what fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts James and Kevin call "magic thumbs". I am able to pick up devices like the Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, T-Mobile G1 or BlackBerry Bold and quickly type emails...

Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, BlackBerry Device, Storm, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-21

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19

The UrbanSpoon effect

The ultimate promotion that an iPhone app can receive is to be featured in an Apple TV commercial. Witness the new iPhone commercial featuring UrbanSpoon iTunes, a free application that allows uses GPS and the iPhone accelerometer to find a place to eat. It's a combination of Magic 8 Ball...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Adventures in CA support

I received an Email notice this morning that my support agreement with CA for their Internet Security Suite was ending and that I should pay for an update. Since I'm well aware of how long a Windows XP system will survive on the network without a security breach, I dutifully...

Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., File Servers, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Review: Why Android is for me and the G1 isn't

For me, when it comes to cell phones, it's a marriage of convenience. I value the basic function of a cell phone to connect me to the rest of the world from almost anywhere, but beyond that, I couldn't care less about the "features." Despite my power...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, Smart Phone, T-Mobile, Cell Phone, E-mail, HTC-made G1, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-12

4 signs that it's time to restore your iPhone

Does your iPhone exhibit any of the following symptoms?: Laggy access to the Text/SMS application Longer that five second delay to get a live image in the Camera application Long pause before being able to scroll in Contacts Delay when clicking on the letter...

Tags: Apple iPhone, E-mail, Notebooks, Online Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Asus X83VM-X1 - Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz, 14.1-inch TFT

Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.With its brown lid with a woven gold graphics pattern, the Asus X83VM-X1 might be mistaken for some sort of Gucci-branded laptop. (Hey, it...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, TFT, Asus X83VM-X1, ASUS, laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo

Product reviews 2008-11-07

Time Keeper Magic (exe)

Time Keeper Magic sits on your task bar for easy and quick access, allowing you to enter in work easier and the best of all, its free for everyone.

Tags: 3Bit Solutions

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Rapplez SEA (zip)

Welcome to a world of Fantasy and Adventure, a place where 3 mortal races live and fought side-by-side for a common goal. Choose between Deva, Asura and Gaian, the representative of Light, Darkness and Nature and delve into the many classes unique to them. Play as a magic welding Knight,...

Tags: Class

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Gartner: SOA sinking into trough of disillusionment

Gartner: SOA sinking into trough of disillusionmentI don't what SOA is for ...but I DO know how to use SOAP and BPEL! That's the problem.No ROI = No Investment.I've told you this with every SOA post you've made. No businessman in his right mind is going to make an investment...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, disillusionment, trough, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

RenameMaestro (exe)

RenameMaestro - The quick and easy way to rename files and folders. Make incremental changes to get your desired result. Photographers love the 'magic numbering' option that keeps photos in order. System administrators can save multiple actions once but use them repeatedly. RenameMaestro has a powerful find and replace action,...

Tags: Action, Ulfwood, RenameMaestro

Software downloads 2008-11-06

Mario Forever : Block Party (exe)

Welcome to the magic blocks land of Mario Forever. Evil and crafty Bowser and his friend Kemek have created a new machine which filled the Toadstoll land with magic blocks. They want to cover the whole world with them and on the ruinds build an Evil Empire. Stand up and...

Tags: Buziol Games

Software downloads 2008-11-06

Altec Lansing iMT702 inMotion Max

As the heir to Altec Lansing's venerable iM600 portable iPod speaker system, the iMT702 ($199) has some big shoes to fill. We're not thrilled with all of the changes Altec Lansing has made, but the net result is a great-sounding portable system with a compact design and balanced, detailed sound.DesignThe...

Tags: inMotion Max, Altec Lansing

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Asus X83VB-X1

Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.We have tested and reviewed five retail laptops in the $800 to $1,000 range, and the Asus X83VB-X1 is the cheapest and most powerful...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Asus X83VB-X1, ASUS

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Google: it's time to get Real

In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-05