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DaVinci code on Yahoo! Go? Sure, but that's it

DaVinci code on Yahoo! Go? Sure, but that's itBlooby well right Able's Son and Lot's of sand dollars.30 days and counting.What's the business model here?How is Yahoo! expecting to make money from this venture? Are they going to charge a subscription price, sell the software, sell ads that will...

Tags: DaVinci Code, Yahoo! Go, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

Sony CES keynote: A DaVinci Code promotion

Sony CES keynote: A DaVinci Code promotionAppropriatePublishing an Urban Legend in a work of fiction seems appropriate for a group like this. Will everyone believe what they have to say here as well?

Tags: DaVinci Code, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-05

Sony CES keynote: A DaVinci Code promotion

Engadget has the play-by-play of the Sony CEO Howard Stringer's CES keynote, which highlighted Blu-ray, Sony's eBook, HD programming and Digital Cinema projection. But the real star of the show was Sony's forthcoming movie, The DaVinci Code. Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code trotted on stage to...

Tags: Sony Corp., DaVinci Code

Blog posts 2006-01-05

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daVinci Script 1.4 (Windows)

daVinci Script consists of a set of Windows tools which allow you to automate your tasks on PC, mobile units and servers. The tools carry out their tasks by reading and executing script code, i.e. a series of instructions, or 'commands', stored in text files. The code follows a very...

Tags: Mobile, Tool, Carso Data AB, daVinci Script, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-12-29

Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuits

Sure bet for 2008: More Apple lawsuitsWMA is a dead format.It just does not seem to know it yet.Heck, Microsoft's own Zune does not play WMA-DRM9.I am all for opening things up, but the existing Lawsuit is so full of errors and lies, it is funny. This lawsuit will...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, WMA, Apple Inc., lawsuit, Sure bet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

Drowning in an information sea

Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...

Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'

Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'It's a poor legacy that it leavessad Sony had such a hand in it, but politicians do not make such grand artists but better businessmen. Oh well, time to travel to a foreign country so you can perform Happy Birthday in a restaurant...

Tags: Big Business, useful Art, copyright law, U.S. Senate, Constitution

Discussion threads 2007-01-23

Proof that the search for "great search" isn't over just yet

Anybody who has ever used a search site like Google or Yahoo knows that theres room for improvement in search. But just how much? Is the room thats left only for incremental enhancements or might we still see some quantum leaps? Until last week when I got a demonstration of...

Tags: SEARCH, Sun Microsystems Inc., information worker, quantum, worker, automation

Blog posts 2006-12-13

DaVinci Hide 1 (Windows)

DaVinci Hide is a program that encrypts and hides a message behind a JPEG image. Unlike other software, this uses two keys to encrypt the text. A user provided password sort of key and; A randomly generated Validation Code. The deciphering can be done only with this software and the...

Tags: BharTech, DaVinci Hide, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2006-12-04

The Web is Google's OS

Anyone who reads this blog knows I enjoy dabbling in some rampant speculation. But the idea of a Google OS is one that I dont buy. Google has the most powerful advertising platform on the planet and theyve managed to do all of this by building on top of the...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Applications, Google, Read/Write Web

Blog posts 2006-11-21

The 10 worst technologies in Q2 2006

The 10 worst technologies in Q2 2006A question...Are there ANY video games based on movies that are even remotely decent? DaVinci Code = sucks. X-Men = sucks. Jurrasic Park = sucks. Matrix and all offshots = sucks.I know a few people that like Battle for Middle Earth 2...but it...

Tags: Games, Q2 2006

Discussion threads 2006-07-11

Highlight reel from the D conference

The D: All Things Digital blog posts here put on by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher with help from WSJ was a rare event. Of course, the venue (Four Seasons, Carlsbad) and food were good for those who cared, and the attendees included a strange assemblage of well-heeled personalities. The...

Tags: Sony Corp., Al Gore, Howard Stringer

Blog posts 2006-06-01

DaVinci code on Yahoo! Go? Sure, but that's it

This morning I downloaded and installed the new Yahoo! Go on my PC. Had to be a PC, because this service is not Mac or Linux-compatible just yet.As a PC-based media player, it is eye candy. I even watched a trailer for "The DaVinci Code," which hits theaters this...

Tags: Yahoo! Go, PC

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Video: Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and Tom Cruise at CES

Video: In keeping with the tradition of trotting out stars at CES with movies or music to promote, former Hollywood mogul and now Yahoo CEO Terry Semel called upon his old friend Tom Cruise, as well as Ellen DeGeneres, to spice up his keynote, which suffered a few glitches. Cruise...

Tags: movie

Blog posts 2006-01-06

Tom Hanks pitches for Sony at CES

Video: We have a seven-minute clip from Sony's CES keynote featuring CEO Howard Stringer, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer The DaVinci Code team. Hanks keeps it highly entertaining and Howard and Grazer talk about the marriage of technology and value of the socialized cinema experience the movie theatre.

Tags: Tom Hanks

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Open source science

Open source scienceIts just amazingthat the world's headlong dash to destruction can be thwarted by so few brilliant people. A million of P.T. Barnum's people have the same influence on the future as a single scientist. Makes me proud of my own natural science degree - I can hold off...

Tags: open source movement, biology, open source, Rice, chemist, Closed-Source, knowledge

Discussion threads 2005-10-31

Google gets an open source nip from DVD Jon

Google gets an open source nip from DVD JonAll in alla good thing. Given that Google put the bits out, it would take some pretty rosy glasses to think that they would remain unreadable.This is a wake-up call, reminding them that they shouldn't count on security through obscurity. ...

Tags: open source, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-06-30

Google gets an open source nip from DVD Jon

We were talking the other day about how, when a company opens its code up to enhancement by others it needs to be prepared for the Law of Unintended Consequences.Well you might designate this as Prosecution Exhibit B. It seems that when Google launched its new video search service it...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-30