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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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Palm re-enables iTunes sync for Pre. Take that, Apple.

Palm re-enables iTunes sync for Pre. Take that, Apple.Why?Why don't Palm just release their own sync app? All that's needed is something to read the iTunes XML playlists... Do they really think their customers enjoy being used as pawns in their little charade? And don't Pre users think it strange...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Servers, Desktops, Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Pre, Apple Inc., iTunes Sync, operating system, server

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals

Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferralsHow can they blame ...... netbooks when they have 97% of the market?Is there an untold story?^o^Wait, I thought cheap was good. 'Lauren' congratulated herselffor not being able to afford a Mac, and went cheap, cheap, cheap. And now we find out...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft layoff, Apple Inc., client revenue skid, Windows 7 deferral, MSFT, deferral, netbook, Microsoft Corp., skid, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?Ready to sell them short?Dennis: Sure, Oracle's past performance as a company is no prologue to the future. Seeing as you see the future as distinctly different for Oracle than its history from here on in, I assume you'll be devoting half your...

Tags: Strategy, ORCL, Oracle Corp., Dennis

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Is Carol Bartz a graduate of the Jobs-Ellison School of Management?

Is Carol Bartz a graduate of the Jobs-Ellison School of Management?Second bestYes to the no-nonsense, confront the vital issues, 'let's get real' style approach ...... but not the dismissive, egotistical, 'wtf do you think you are' charade.Too much agression fuels fear - not appropriate until a genuine crisis - better...

Tags: Jobs-Ellison School of Management, Carol Bartz, graduate

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Microsoft backs document-format test tool

Microsoft backs document-format test toolGreat ArticleThis is a really positive step for Microsoft.Finally, the Open XML-ODF Translator has been improved.You mean there's actually a chance it might work now? Somehow I doubt it. If Microsoft is "in competition with" ODF then it's in their best interest (as in...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, tool

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Speed Charades 1.0 (Mobile)

Speed Charades remembers which words you have already acted out, so you won't see the same charade until you've used them all.Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Reed Olsen, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-09

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the bad

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the badGood and Bad SimultaneouslyCISCO is on the list of cash rich companies that are laying off ... They're also on the list of companies that are hiring tech. Recycling positions to lower the compensation package? Apple is on...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Strategy, IT jobs outlook, IT job, information technology, layoff, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Charades 1.0 (Mobile)

Charades, the family favorite for the Holiday season gets some digital assistance with Charades for iPhone. Instead of struggling to think of a film, book or song simply push the lever and the curtain is raised on a fresh Charades challenge! Pass the phone around to each player and act...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Shiny Development, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-04

Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000

Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000It's not manslaughter!She did it on purpose. It's murder. Nothing less.agree with "bad precedent"I agree with you except for the last part. As you stated yourself, it is not absolutely clear that this charade really caused the suicide. So...

Tags: Lori Drew, suicide, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-11-29

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandNice spin on the headlineimplying that Apple is the one paying people to stand in line.RE: Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandThat is just pathetic that they have to pay people to pretend to want an iPhone....

Tags: Apple iPhone, IPhone Launch, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

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