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Why I didn't like "Microhoo"

Why I didn't like "Microhoo"Two essays jostling.Microsoft has made an investment in MSN, and that investment has not been paying well. Search is a related source of income, and that component of the business could also be improved on the balance sheet.The purchase of Yahoo would add the #2...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., content company, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers won

Warner Music Group boss: We went to war with consumers, and the consumers wonSomething elseThe first order of business is to make sure that people who [b]want[/b] to do business with you aren't prevented from doing so.I spend a lot of money on WebScription e-books. No DRM, and all...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), digital-rights management, content company, music, advertisement, Warner Music Group Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium

Comedy at the British Open Source ConsortiumOnce again...[i]But does it offer the DRM guarantees that content companies DEMAND?[/i]What content company John C? The BBC [b]IS[/b] the content company. The citizens have already [b]paid[/b] for the content the BBC wants to distribute online; they want the BBC to pick a solution...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, British Broadcasting Corp., content company

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

Google handles the YouTube hornet

As noted by Larry Dignan and reported elsewhere on the Internet, Viacom is likely to sign a deal with Internet startup Joost for web delivery of its content. This follows on Viacoms recent insistence that Google clear out copyrighted content owned by Viacom and uploaded by users of YouTube. This...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Music industry buys a clue

Music industry buys a clueALMOST sounds like even they realize they have maxed out the 'Greed Meter'Nah. They'll find another way. I have faith in them...Real progress will be...... when content executives realize their licensing fees are so high that Apple has had difficulty making money on music.If...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, content company

Discussion threads 2006-11-28

Another real world example of why DRM is evil

Another real world example of why DRM is evilDRMed DVD problemsI have a CD (Ray) which has some kind of DRM protection on it. So whenever i play it back on my computer (not RIP, just play) - i hear very irritating clicks and noises in the audio track. The...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, music, CD, content company, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Telco cowardice and DRM

At a panel on DRM at the recent 3GSM conference in Barcelona, David Birch of Consult Hyperion, a U.K.-based independent IT consultancy, cut loose in rather politically incorrect a fashion against a telecommunication industry that he feels should stand strong against the DRM demands of content companies. From the article:...

Tags: David Birch, telecommunications company, telecommunications, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-02-22

We the Sheeple (and other tales of DRM woe)

We the Sheeple (and other tales of DRM woe)Talk is cheap...All this talk about DRM and the doom and gloom it presents is meaningless as long as people consume.Like gas prices, there are enough people consuming the good to allow the producers to simply ride the scale.Music, Videos, Gas, Diamonds,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, content company

Discussion threads 2005-10-03

Congress to legislate Grokster?

Congress to legislate Grokster?Senator should get educated before spouting off like a fool[i]A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down.[/i]This show's the senator has no clue about the topic in which she is against. Everyone who know anything about...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-swapping, content company, intellectual property industry, file-sharing, U.S. Congress, intellectual property, Grokster Ltd.

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Copying and DRM: Opportunity or death for Tellywood?

Copying and DRM: Opportunity or death for Tellywood?They just need to be *creative* byoffering extras, tie-ins, hints, cheats, etc, etc that you can only get with an approved version. The actual shows should be seen as advertising. That's how everything becomes popular...by being shared, talked about, promoted at...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Apple Inc., TiVo Inc., content company, piracy, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2005-09-21

Microsoft's copyright play and the Trusted Computing Group

Microsoft's copyright play and the Trusted Computing GroupTrusted computing?Gimme a break! You would be a nut to trust Microcrap, the corp. or it's products!BalanceAs you state, balance is the key--if you're going to take something away from consumers, you must make your offering somehow more attractive than what they have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Trusted Computing Group, content company, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2005-08-31

Microsoft understands content is king

Microsoft understands content is kingMarketing of DRMBut to what point is DRM marketable to the end user?Take note of who is complaining.If you read the coming avalanch of talkbacks you will see the people complaining fall into two catagories, those that want a legitimate backup, and the file traders.To address...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Windows Vista, content company, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-08-31

Separating "consumer rights" from copyright

My condolences to those affected by yesterday's terrorist attacks in London. Funny that words escape a guy who regularly runs well past editorial limits, but my thoughts go out to those affected by this tragedy. I've been a busy bee this week, spending Microsoft dollars on a business trip to...

Tags: technological innovation, content company

Blog posts 2005-07-07

Grokster and open source

Grokster and open sourceA waste of timeFirst of all, it was not open source that set the stage for p2p applications. In fact We were ripping CD's on windows first and downloading from mp3 ftp sites.Besides, people are still going to share and trade files no matter what happens....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, bank, Grokster Ltd., open source, content company, digital-rights management, tool, music

Discussion threads 2005-06-28

Additional Resources

Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Mac BU, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Craigslist fires back at eBay; Bogus Google ads to Kijiji alleged

Craigslist has filed its response to eBay's lawsuit and the company hits back--hard. Craigslist alleges that eBay participated in everything from "unlawful and unfair competition," false advertising, business interference and even phishing attacks. The official list via Craigslist: "We filed a complaint in California today, charging...

Tags: Google Inc., Craigslist, Advertisement, eBay Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect

Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...

Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-13

HBO programming comes to iTunes

Well, that didn't take long. After some rumors of an Apple/HBO tie up yesterday, Apple today announced that HBO content will be available for download today. This is great news because two of my favorite shows are Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. (I've been resisting...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Programming, Pricing, TVs, Digital Music, Marketing Research, Development Tools, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making

As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-13