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- Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront: Which should a Windows user choose?
- Free for business use?Interesting... According to this table, MCE can be used in servers (2008 R2) and, since there is nothing in contrary, it seems that is also free for use by businesses - most of the other free offerings (Avast, AVG...) are only free for non-commercial use.RE: Microsoft Security...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Corp., MSE, Windows User, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?
- Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?That would be a dumb idea......from the tech standpoint. If they are going to use Palm for the OS then they could simply take Android for free. Now of course this doesn't sit well with the marketing image that they have set forth...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- William Shatner signs off on video autographs
- William Shatner signs off on video autographsBeam my up Scotty"Beam me up Scotty...there's no intelligent life down here! Another P.T Barnum is born.What a complete waste. What ever "respect" I had for Shatner before reading this article, has completely vanished.Any fool who pays for this "service", who actually believes that...
- Tags: Corporate communications, William Shatner, video autograph, video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- DRM - in a nutshell
- DRM - in a nutshellOne link explains it allI think that this will sum up my feelings on the matter:http://www.mininova.org/tor/807591information is freedom. done.RE: DRM - in a nutshellWow! Had to do a double-take to make sure I'm actually reading ZDNet - I thought facts were forbidden here.Anyways, top-notch article...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, user benefit, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?The FSF has never before been interested in money damagesThe history of the FSF and other supporters/users of the GNU GPL has been compliance, not money damages. Seeking money damages would simply open a can of worms given you then have to figure out the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, GPL, GPL V3, compliance, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Hey Eminem, blame the system, not Apple
- Hey Eminem, blame the system, not AppleDoesn't matter"The first are the very poorest: artists and songwriters, and they'll be the first ones to out of the business."That doesn't matter. What matters is sticking it to the record labels. Besides, we all know no songwriters or performers are getting paid; the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., CD, Eminem, songwriter, music, CD sale
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?
- Consider the following: You're a big open source shop that spends a lot of time developing Linux code. Now you get a vehicle to cross-license Linux-related patents without all the licensing hubbub from the likes of IBM, Oracle, and Google. Doesn't it make sense to become a licensee?Google announced that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Linux, Patent, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- FAQ: Net radio's mixed signals
- FAQ: Net radio's mixed signalsUsed to be per hour?According to http://www.soundexchange.com/licensee/licensee_cws.html, the fee used to be 0.76 cents per *hour* per listener, although per performance was an option. Per hour seems much cheaper. Did I miss something?A question:The only radio station I listen to,exclusively via the net, is...
- Tags: INTERNET, Internet radio, radio
- Discussion threads 2007-07-13
- Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3
- Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3Because GPLv3 is a legal document...... and not many technical people, like myself, are very legal one has to rely on what lawyers think (!).I find it difficult to believe that MS has not considered the impact of the GPLv3, but then again it...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Microsoft's PlaysForSure partners in denial?
- Last week, just before signing of on Friday, I pointed to the news that Microsoft had confirmed it's intentions to launch it's own portable media playback device. At that time, there were already a few reports on the Web including the original newsbreaker on Billboard Magazine but no...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PlaysForSure
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike
- As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...
- Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Intel's DRM by any other name is still DRM
- In calling a spade a spade, Cory Doctorow refers to Intel's DTCP-IP technology for what it really is: Digital Rights Management Technology. Only I wish he'd start using my acronym for DRM: CRAP see the video for why I call it that. That way, the headline could have...
- Tags: Crap, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- Declaration of InDRMpendence
- Is your anti-virus or anti-spyware technology warning you about the Digital Rights Management software on your computer? If not, it should be. It's a Trojan horse of the worst kind.Earlier today, after describing to a close friend the rock and the hard place that I'm between since I...
- Tags: digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-09-30
- DRM nightmare: Why $20,000 worth of gear won't play my 99 cent songs
- It's kind of screwed up if you think about it. In search of that zen feel where I can have the benefits of modern day audio/video in any room in my house, but without all sorts of unsightly equipment, wires, and splitters spilling out from the nooks and crannies...
- Tags: CD, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- Blade.org: Standards body or boondoggle?
- IBM is talking up a new consortium that it has established called Blade.org. No top level domain (not .com, .net, etc.) packs the double-entendre that ".org" does when it's tacked on to the name of a technology (in this case "blade") that has been begging for a...
- Tags: blade, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-15
- Oracle to set SOA techs free at JavaOne
- For several years now, Oracle, with its own Java-based J2EE application server and integrated development environment JDeveloper, has been trying to play in the same league as Java application server heavyweights IBM and BEA. But despite having traditionally positioned itself as the low cost provider of world class...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-06-24
- What the GPL means
- What the GPL meansHow much GPL needed to 'pollute'?Interesting choice of wording there. The GPL's purpose is not to pollute, but to free and make clean. Any source code released under the GPL must be freely available and usable by everybody. If you alter a GPL'ed project, you must release...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL
- Discussion threads 2005-06-17
- Microsoft plays Johnny Appleseed
- Microsoft invests billions in R&D and now wants to seed the market of startups and small businesses by licensing its intellectual property. Microsoft has been licensing IP to larger firms, but the new Johnny Appleseed (no reference to Apple intended other than this is a good idea for Apple R&D...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-05
- Honeywell LCD suit targets Apple, others
- Honeywell LCD suit targets Apple, othersAnd people keep saying...No one would start the patent war. Given recent history, I'd say they are full of beans...Kodak, Honeywell, ...There's a pattern here. Loser companies which have no products and no future. Since they have no products vulnerable to patent...
- Tags: Honeywell International Inc., patent, Apple Inc., LCD, hardware
- Discussion threads 2004-10-07
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