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- Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?
- According to InfoWorld: Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is...
- Tags: Patent, Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Bray, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Did Hell freeze over (Sun embrace Eclipse)?
- Via Bob Sutor's blog comes a link to a post by Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich entitled Hell froze over. Writes Milinkovich: Our first ever committer from Sun committed code to CVS. Suresh Raju contributed code to get Eclipse working on Solaris x86.....We were first...
- Tags: Eclipse, Bray
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Sun's Bray to Microsoft's Matusow: "In your dreams"
- If you've spent any time with Sun's director of Web technologies Tim Bray (either in person or virtually, with his blog), then you'd probably get the same impression that I have of Bray. Smart. Centered. Very zen. Doesn't mind a good debate, but sticks to the technical merits....
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Jason Matusow, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Sun's Bray joins the inDRMpendence chorus
- Sun's Bray joins the inDRMpendence chorusPlaysForSteveFace it, Ballmer heads the only organization PFS was intended to benefit.Sure Won't Play/Digital Rip-Off MechanismI think the Register called it Surely Won't Play http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/hmv_makes_drm_easy/Digital Rip-Off Mechanism becuase you have to pay twice. Anyway it is pretty bad that the BSA Europe of all...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, inDRMpendence, Bray, media, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- Sun's Bray joins the inDRMpendence chorus
- In his blog, Sun director of Web technologies Tim Bray has spotlighted my Just say no to DRM series on inDRMpendence. In that blog, Bray offers an alternative meaning for the DRM acronym to the one I've been using Digital Restrictions Management. Bray suggests Damnable Rights-removal Mischief. ...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Bray, digital-rights management, inDRMpendence, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-13
- Bray discovers Google's secret sauce
- In a posting entitled "First MyDoom. Then Microsoft. No breaks for Google," I posited for the umpteenth time that I don't believe Google's dominant position to be as protectable as all of those who are now paying north of $180 per share think it to be. Google's stickiness for now is...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-11-29
Additional Resources
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?We don't expect integrity any moreI don't trust any 'journalists' anymore, I just try to read everything I can and make my own conclusions. No one admits to their biases, nor do they admit to special considerations or past affiliations, except the...
- Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., news organization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Python's future looks bright
- It always warms my heart to see good programmers get the recognition they deserve. This week, Sun announced they were hiring Ted Leung (long-time Python developer), and Frank Wierzbicki lead implementer of the Jython project. They'll be working full-time on Jython and in particular paying attention to developer tools. ...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Python, Jython, Wierzbicki, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given
- While there's still a month left before the final votes are tallied, Microsoft's bid to gain ISO standards approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format is anything but guaranteed. Friday February 29 marked the end of a week-long ballot-resolution meeting in Geneva, where participants debated...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-01
- "Back that truck up"
- The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...
- Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Wide finder redux
- Here's a comment from frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht: Until Tim Bray started his Widefinder discussions I was a big believer in Coolthreads. The principles behind the technology just make sense. But then I noticed how badly my Intel based laptop beat the...
- Tags: Job, T2, T5120, Network Technology, Networking, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vine
- Why isn't Sun giving away iPhones at customer schmoozes? They need their own Java complement ASAP, that's why. A lot of times when you go to a Sun Microsystems schmooze event, they larder the request for your attendance with the chance to win an iPod-this or an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Programming Languages, Java, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Done deal: News Corp. lands Dow Jones, Negroponte on WSJ edit board
- News Corp. has won Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch got his big catch--The Wall Street Journal.The companies announced that 37 percent of the Bancroft family voted for the deal. Combined with other shareholders--who would possibly turn down $60 a share?--the deal is done. There was little new information in the...
- Tags: Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Microsoft needs REST
- Apparently, Microsoft is diverging from the rest of the Web 2.0 world on how to approach integration and mashups. REST Representational State Transition is an architectural style that is transforming how systems integrate together, but it isn't a standard. The ATOM Publishing Protocol APP is and is a popular, RESTful...
- Tags: Web 2.0, REST, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Your turn: Ask Bob Brewin
- ZDNet will be interviewing Sun CTO of Software Bob Brewin tomorrow about all the announcements coming out of JavaOne this week. The readers of this blog are invited to submit their questions for Mr. Brewin here just add a comment. Some of Bobs key areas of responsibility include Suns...
- Tags: Sun, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Seeing colors in the night
- In "Things that show color in the night," the Boston Globe reports that a company named Tenebraex is helping color blind people to travel. But its also developing goggles to help soldiers and physicians to see all colors at night, and not only the green color of current night vision...
- Tags: Tenebraex Corp., ColorPath CCNVD, vision, Boston Globe
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- The value of the term Web 2.0 nearing zero
- The Web 2.0 meme has reared its head again, this time spurred by Peter Rips post in which he described the second generation Web as a wave that is "now rather long in the tooth, as cycles go." He cites declines in Alexa reach number metrics for GigaOm, TechCrunch and...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Tim
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Sun working on its listening gene
- Last night at a Sun event featuring Tim Bray and Mike Arrington talking about Web 2.0, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz made a brief appearance. I asked him about how Sun is faring in convincing startup companies and larger firms to adopt Sun products. Speaking about the rough times in the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Sun becomes a patron of the Free Software Foundation
- Suns honeymoon with the Richard Stallmans Free Software Foundation continued this week as the company became a patron of the FSF. Corporate patrons "affiliate themselves with the FSF and the GNU project" by providing financial support, according to the FSF web site, but the FSF "does not endorse the activities"...
- Tags: Sun, Community, Java, Licenses, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- The heroes of i-Technology
- I didnt see Jeremys post last year about the heroes of i-Technology, but I caught it this year, and its a fun trip into history and a worthwhile exercise in putting today into perspective. As Jeremy says, in his quest to identify the Top 20 i-Technologists, the problem is not...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, RIA
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
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