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- Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!
- Vista is still alive here..."Vista definitely improved"Vista-preinstalled SP1/SP2 Just Works, so I have no immediate plans to upgrade to Windows 7. Right now, I don't want to tempt fate.I don't see why people get all emo over Vista's UAC. It doesn't bother me.Yes, everyone says that Windows 7 is better...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-24
- P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
- Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...
- Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal
- Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Internet Radio agreement: Good enough for now
- Hollywood and Silicon Valley have reached an agreement on Internet radio - an experimental payment structure that is far from perfect but much better than the alternative rate system that threatened to put Web-based streaming sites out of business. The agreement creates a tiered-system for the radio...
- Tags: Revenue, Internet Radio, Agreement, Webcaster, SoundExchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Green Dam's day not done
- Chinese students were out partying in celebration of the news that China has delayed its mandate that PCs sold in the country must have intalled some spyware named Green Dam Youth Escort, according to Reuters. "We are very happy because we got what we wanted," a young artist said....
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Ed Black, PC, Manufacturer, Desktops, Manufacturing, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money
- The Recording Industry Association of America won a big one yesterday - a $1.92 million judgment against a woman charged with copyright infringement. But you won't hear champagne bottles popping open in Hollywood. Is anyone really a winner here? Does the RIAA expect to see a single...
- Tags: Judgment, RIAA, Internet, Productivity, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will win
- MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will winHere are five reasonsmoney, money, money, money and more moneyThat why we have Blu-RayHarder to rip and you need a 50gb disc. They lost on the DVD front."Confident" not "confidant"Sorry for being a bit anal here, but the word you wanted towards...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...
- Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"
- Real Networks has turned the tables on Hollywood movie studios, filing a countersuit in U.S. District Court today that accuses the studios of violating antitrust laws by collaborating to form an "illegal cartel" that's trying to monopolize the DVD market. PDF The countersuit accuses the DVD Copy...
- Tags: Antitrust, Studio, Real, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Net access no fundamental right
- News.com's Matt Asay finds much to mock in European Commission head Viviane Reding's argument that Internet access is a human right (quoting Matt here: "Microsoft Word document, which is really very ironic") The fourth element I would like to underline is the recognition of the...
- Tags: Internet Access, Freedom, Matt Asay, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apartall books should be free in electronic formCan't the publishers see the tidal FOSS wipping out proprietary software?They don't realize that there is an analogy between copyrighted books and proprietary software that points to their demise.It's already happening with the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Google Just, Google Inc., book deal
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- With the Google Book settlement showing signs of coming apart at the seams, Google has taken to its blog to make its case for the deal. Background: The settlement, reached in October between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, would create a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Antitrust investigation into Google book deal?
- The Justice Department is "in contact" with Google and its critics over a proposed settlement that essentially gives Google monopoly control over thousands of books that may belong in the public domain. The Wall Street Journal reported today that antitrust investigators at Justice have been talking with...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifsMPAA's moot point[i]The Motion Picture Association of America alleges that RealNetworks - which makes the software - is trying to circumvent copyright protection technology on DVDs, using [b]its own protections that would impose limitations and restrictions but could be altered or removed...
- Tags: CSS, Tools & Techniques, Digital media, RealDVD, MPAA, software, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
- If I could be be punished for the things I could do - instead of what I actually do - I would been behind bars years ago. Hollywood movies studios are trying to punish RealNetworks for something that its software could do, not what it actually does,...
- Tags: Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- News to know: Microsoft; Amazon; SOA; AMD
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft bends a little on Windows 7 due date Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association
- The Pirate Bay may have grounds for a retrial. It turns out that the judge in the case, Tomas Norstrom, might have a slight conflict of interest. He's a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection...
- Tags: Judge, Peer To Peer (P2P), Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Internet, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
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