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Tale of the court tape: Apple vs. Palm

Tale of the court tape: Apple vs. PalmApple is the new 900lb gorillaHere we have a company with tons of cash, tons of lawyers, a monopoly in the downloadable media market threatening cute cuddly little companies into not releasing competing products. Microsoft vs Apple? No. Apple vs Psystar and Apple...

Tags: Whos, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., court tape, Tale

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

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Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes

Screw it!Let's just pull the friggin' plug.I'm so tired of this crap. Really, I am.I kinda feel the same way.By the time the lawyers, big corporations, and the politicians get down with the Internet, it won't be worth the powder to blow it to Hell. It was originally designed...

Tags: Channel management, INTERNET, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'

Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'"As Authorized""[i]... or as authorized by Amazon ...[/i]" seems to leave a pretty big hole in the TOS.RE: Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'since 1984 book is available thousands of places, the law suit has little merit in terms of damages regardless of how much the download...

Tags: Tos, lawsuit not-so, Amazon.com Inc., not-so

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

First Circuit: Rule forbids webcasting. Judge: Time to change that rule.

First Circuit: Rule forbids webcasting. Judge: Time to change that rule.The fact is that broadcasting a trialIs part and parcel with transparency of the legal system today. It is the EXACT SAME as going to a court, sitting down in the gallary, and viewing the case that way.Webcasting is not...

Tags: webcasting, First Circuit

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuse

Brittany's story: a tale of heroism amid RIAA abuseRIAABig bad bully needs to go suck on an egg or two and get with it. Too bad they were the last in the techo race, now they want to pick on kids that work at Dairy Queen. Big bad...

Tags: Big Bad, RIAA, Brittany, pity, heroism

Discussion threads 2009-03-01

News to know: Mac at 25; Green storage; Android; Zune a misfit toy?

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know vi a email al ert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage . Christopher Dawson: The Intel convertible Classmate - 1:1 and beyond Adam O'Donnell: Will...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Storage, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Tale of the court tape: Apple vs. Palm

Palm has a simple message to Apple's patent bluster as the Pre preps for lift-off: We're not scared. But when you compare the cash balances, which will be used on an army of lawyers, perhaps Palm may want to hang back on the taunting. The news comes...

Tags: Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Fujifilm ressurects the "Polaroid" and announces Instax 200 instant film camera

Fujifilm ressurects the "Polaroid" and announces Instax 200 instant film cameraTalk about uselessYou can take a digital picture with ANY digital camera and use a cheap picture printer to get the same result in less than 5 mins.And you don't have to pay $20 for instant film that may end...

Tags: camera, Polaroid

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Apple wins royalty rate showdown

Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...

Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?

(See Part 1: Buffering is not copying) Direct liability for creating playback copies The plaintiffs charged that Cablevision violated its reproduction right by creating copies for playback to customers. The question here is who made the copies. "If it is Cablevision, plaintiffs’ theory of...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VCR, Netcom, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Green light for hacker's extradition

Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUs

Dell customers unhappy with BIOS band-aid for faulty NVIDIA GPUsNot a viable solution at allFor most people, this is simply not possible without swapping out the entire motherboard. Dell should replace the defective parts, and charge the cost directly to nVIDIA. I happen to prefer nVIDIA graphics cards,...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Dell Computer Corp., GPU, faulty NVIDIA GPU, BIOS, NVIDIA GPU

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Questioning IT

Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Attack of the clones: Psystar to battle Apple on EULA

Attack of the clones: Psystar to battle Apple on EULAMore than likely . . .They were a home business who built custom machines that decided that they were gonna need more room for production. Happens all the time.Our church has been in it's own building for 35 years,...

Tags: Operating systems, OSX, Sounds like Psystar, Apple OSX, Apple Inc., Psystar, EULA, hardware, clone, Apple Macintosh, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Small business backup for Windows

Small business backup for WindowsMicrosoft has it's own time machineI'm shocked that you obviously did not research on this issue. Windows Vista and Server 2003 (yes, that means also "since 2003") has VSS, where any data on Drive C: (that's the default) is backed up automatically via shadow copies. Vista...

Tags: Backups, Windows Server Backup, backup, Small Business backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Senate approves telecom immunity, rejects compromises

Senate approves telecom immunity, rejects compromisesTruly depressing, indeedI have to say that what constantly amazes me is just how damn little it costs corporate America to buy our elected officials. Pennies on the dollar, really, for what they get. Too many Democrats simply don't have the values we imagine they...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecom immunity, telecommunications, U.S. Senate, government

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapes

Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapesmuzzzzzzzzdetz thinks we stewpud???muzt tink we stupudddz! we'll crack ur warz, made in india, db azzzzzes, now i have mission! maybe gw will choken and vomit on this....there is a public record of your keys!dumbweeeabushRE: Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup...

Tags: E-mail, recycled backup tape, email archive system

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapes

If I may give some props to the Times of London's Bugle podcast, the White House has finally embraced an environmental agenda by recycling data backup tapes. No need to clog up the works with dusty old emails about leaking Valerie Plame's name to reporters or planning for the Iraq...

Tags: Backup, Backup Tape, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Could open source exist without the Betamax case?

Could open source exist without the Betamax case?RIAA is Over-ReachingI agree that the Betamax time-shifting decision was a very big deal. I don't think it has much to say for open-source software, since software wasn't even subject to copyright until the 1976 copyright revision. When that was done...

Tags: CD, open source, Sony Betamax, Betamax Case, RIAA, MP3 Ripping

Discussion threads 2008-01-01