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FSF's Stallman pitches new definition for C.R.A.P.

If you've been following any of the news regarding the now draft version 3 of the GNU General Public License, then you also know by now that the Free Software Foundation and its leader Richard Stallman are looking to prevent the mashing up of GPL'd software with digital rights management...

Tags: Crap

Blog posts 2006-02-14

Suggestions for renaming DRM start rolling in

From ZDNet reader Russ Lighton via email, a new explanation for the acronym DRM: The Digital Repossession Manifesto DRM: "By purchasing this product you understand and agree you are actually purchasing a rental of the digital content and do not actually own the content. The rental...

Tags: Content Restriction, Crap, Digital Repossession Manifesto

Blog posts 2006-01-13

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Zoho Share(point?)

If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...

Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Using mind control to talk to machines

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner talks to Emotiv Systems President Tan Le about new interface technologies that are making humans more like machines. In a demo for conference attendees, Le shows a headset Emotiv developed that can track electrical signals in the brain...

Tags: Machine, Intel Developer Forum

Videos 2008-08-21

Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flaw

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has raised an alarm for a serious vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, warning that a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The code, posted to Milw0rm.com, exploits a directory traversal vulnerability vulnerability in the way Apache Tomcat handles malformed requests. ...

Tags: HTTP, XSS, Apache Software Foundation, Exploit Code, Apache Tomcat, Flaw, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-21

SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?

At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...

Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast

The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-20

A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity

Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo's Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered "plus sign" for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...

Tags: Cable Television, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Hillcrest Labs, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Opera patches 7 vulnerabilities but keeps one a secret

Opera Software has shipped a new version of its flagship Web browser with fixes for at least seven documented security problems but details on one vulnerability -- a cross-site scripting issue reported by Chris Weber-- is being kept under wraps. Opera warned that one of the seven...

Tags: Opera Software, Vulnerability, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Yahoo and Intel's Web TV widget could be the winner

I have seen the future of television. And I can't wait to "watch." For years, companies large and small have been trying to merge the experiences of watching TV and surfing the Web. But none have really taken off, largely because the attempts have tried to force...

Tags: Web TV, Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover

If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...

Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online

A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...

Tags: Newsletter, Spam, Spamming, SpamZa, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-20

News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-20

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?Thanks for asking.Everybody is talking about eBook readers, but nobody is asking what the market will pay for them.I love the Kindle, but I think it's a bit expensive, and your poll results show that...

Tags: E-books, e-book, eBooks volume

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...

Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-19

The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention

Google will set up a "Big Tent" – a two-story, 8,000 sq. ft. facilitey -- just for bloggers at the Democratic Convention in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. And, hey, it's non-partisan – they'll do the same at the Republican Convention (although they fail to provide a blog-friendly graphic.)...

Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Timely delivery for perishable content

Brian Shield, CIO for The Weather Channel, describes the challenges of delivering ever-changing weather updates to users on a variety of content delivery platforms. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Content Delivery, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PR Practitioners, PitchEngine, public relations, bad apple, public beta

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

An Event Apart 2008: Day 2

The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...

Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to close

Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeArticle CorrectionMr. Berman is a Democrat, not a Republican.RE: Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeFixed. thanks.RE: Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to closeLovely. So the RIAA prop up successfully bought a judgment that...

Tags: Pandora, SoundExchange, Webcaster

Discussion threads 2008-08-19