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DVD-copying sales ban reinstated

DVD-copying sales ban reinstated321 Studios is superfluousThe charade is over. Everyone knows that everyone used DVDXCopy to dub commercial DVDs for their own use. So now 321 is marketing a product which only compresses DVD content, but doesn't unencrypt it? Duh. There are only about a...

Tags: Consumer electronics, sales, DVD, DVD-copying, charade

Discussion threads 2004-03-15

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Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law

Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-LawIt's not Vista Stupid It's YouI hate when people try to blame problems on Vista that don't belong to it. If you're having problems with AOL IM working with Vista, then the problem is AOL. They have had over 2 years to get their...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Mother-in-Law, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft

Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on MicrosoftAll very interesting. I do hope that Yahoo remains an independentcompetitor to both Google and MS. Consumers will be the losers if we have less competition here. But, Yang is playing this out the best he can. they will...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

Leadership vs. Management

Leadership vs. ManagementMy contentionIT leaders still need a current skill set to include project management experience, effective communications skills and an open mind. It doesn't matter how good you are at what you do, odds are there is still someone more technically proficient and possibly more personable. That's...

Tags: Strategy, Financial services, NEXT Friday, figurehead, leadership, knowledge

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Leadership vs. Management

This is the tenth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. Note that this is a draft for a new bit to be inserted before the extract published last week - a response to the many...

Tags: CIO, Leadership, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-21

And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use

And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually useSo are you saying that a business can't use the Air?I'm not sure that is a safe bet. I don't have a use for it. But what of those who end up buying the Air and using it...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, MBA, Lenovo Group Ltd., optical drive, sexy notebook, Ethernet

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will survive

Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will surviveGood Bye and Rot in HellThis is the proverbial we had good intentions. The wanted to block the action and have the FCC give the spectrum to them for free for a business plan if can call it a plan...

Tags: safety network, Frontline Wireless

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate

Fear Factor in BitTorrent debateAmenDuopolies are a poor substitute for a free market and government has to own up to the anticompetitive consequences of its own actions.This is a republic and not a true...democracy. Therefore the few elected to represent the many are easily bought off by big business...

Tags: Vertical industries, cynicism, duopoly, government, Comcast Corp., democracy, big business, BitTorrent

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

BEA Acquired By Oracle (Sooner Rather than Later)

I'm predicting a relatively quick end to the silliness over at BEA, with BEA's executives, prompted by a little medicine from Dr. Icahn, acquiring enough temporary sanity to accept whatever second offer Oracle is willing to give them. At which point the charade will be over and BEA will become...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Customer, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-10-31

ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters

ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards settersAgreedI've seen nothing like the sort of hardball that's been played in the OOXML standardization effort in the small standards body on which I sit. Consensus seems to work quite well; so well that I have yet to...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), standards body, OOXML, OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Fake Steve Jobs outed by New York Times

It's a sad day for impostors everywhere.The New York Times has outed Fake Steve Jobs and he is Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes.Times reporter Brad Stone quotes Lyons:"I'm stunned that it's taken this long," said Mr. Lyons, 46, when a reporter interrupted his vacation in Maine on Sunday...

Tags: Steve Jobs, New York Times Co., Mr., Reporter, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-05

Busting deceptive benchmark charts (AMD this time) is necessary, but ultimately is not a solution

Busting deceptive benchmark charts AMD this time is necessary, but ultimately is not a solutionThis will be correctedjust as soon as hard drive manufacturers learn what a gigabyte is . . . IOW don't hold your breath.Will AMD out-flank the iPhone?Prior to the iPhone release, there were about 30 negative...

Tags: ZD-Net, journalism business, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

iPod-compatible music site to offer free Web play

iPod-compatible music site to offer free Web playMessage has been deleted.Oh, please Reverend MacFellowwhy continue this charade?

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, music site, free-Web, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

Dell launches Ubuntu consumer systems; Will sales measure up?

Dell launches Ubuntu consumer systems; Will sales measure up?I'd take a bit of "crapware" to lower the price.After all, I'd fully expect to need to repartition the disk and completely reinstall everything [u]anyway[/u].Mind you, I'm not sure how much crapware has been written for GNU/Linux OSs in the first place.How...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, sales, Dell Computer Corp., Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3

Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3The momentum is building, this will be exciting. I can't wait to see all ofthe projects that choose GPL3. Solaris, Java, Samba, MySQL, . . . , LINUX!!!!Another thing, the collective thought that went in to the GPL3 is truelyamazing. Lawyers at Sun,...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., GPL, open source, GPL 3, Linux, Eben Moglen

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?

Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?There is a HUGE connection. MS is trying to pretend they are the nice guys,and here they can say they are supporting open standards, and, indirectly, open source. They want the message that they are not against open standards...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

Microsoft: A law firm pretending to be an army pretending to be a software company

SCO failed, so now Microsoft has to do the heavy lifting itself to undermine open source software's legitimacy. Actually, Microsoft prefers to undermine Red Hat's legitimacy. Or OpenXchange's. Or your company's.The latest moves by Microsoft, however, give them away. Stripped of their proxies, their moves are now more clearly understood...

Tags: Intellectual Property, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Patents, Software Infrastructure, Windows

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Nancy Heinen to take the fall in Apple options scandal (Updated)

Nancy Heinen to take the fall in Apple options scandal UpdatedAnd if you watched Battlestar Galactica last night...Then you know that Steve Jobs is a cyborg, seeking to exterminate the human species.ZDNET always provides the most interesting spin.I wonder who is going to take the fall at PixarWhats common between...

Tags: Federal government, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Mac hijacked in "PWN 2 0WN" contest

Mac hijacked in "PWN 2 0WN" contestNo spin neededMalicious web site script gets shell in local uer account. One down, One to go. Lets see if they can root the other one. Both machines lasted longer than I thought and neither one got remotely exploited just sitting connected to the...

Tags: Desktops, Firewalls, Operating systems, Matasano, Apple Macintosh, modern computer, Microsoft Windows, exploit, computer

Discussion threads 2007-04-20

Dennis Howlett: Is Larry Ellison unwittingly handing SAP a winning card?

Fellow Enterprise Irregular and desconstructor of the ERP giants Dennis Howlett contributes this guest post on the ongoing Oracle vs. SAP battle. He goes deep in looking at the ramifications of Oracles recent lawsuit versus SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary that provides affordable support for Oracles J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft and...

Tags: Larry Ellison, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-26