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- Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?
- Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes. The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, In the news, Gadgets, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- iTunes Plus - Getting more than you bargained for!
- Following article on Wired and The Unofficial Apple Weblog, debate is raging as to whether it is right that Apple incorporates user's iTunes user name into tracks (specifically, the DRM-free iTunes Plus tunes).I've read dozens of blog posts and web articles today on this subject and one thing that seems...
- Tags: Thoughts, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Latest AACS Processing Key released
- The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.This latest key can be used to decrypt all newly released (and future releases, for a while at least) HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. This...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying?
- Licensing discussions are underway which could see consumers being given the right to make a number of legitimate copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies. But is it too late for managed copying?So the AACS LA do believe that relaxing the DRM will boost salesThe agreement, if it gets support from the...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- AACS vs. The bloggers
- The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...
- Tags: Thoughts, Legal, Industry, In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Why the AACSLA are desperate to force the "forbidden numbers" genie back into the bottle
- Ive had a number of questions from Hardware 2.0 readers concerning the AACSLA AACS Licensing Authority and why theyre now trying to erase the HD-DVD processing key forbidden numbers" from the Internet. What a slap in the face for the AACS is must have been when the lowly hackers,...
- Tags: Thoughts, Legal, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- WGA - The "A" stands for Advertisments
- Just when you think that WGA cant possibly get any worse, it suddenly does.As you probably already know, Im no fan of WGA, but when Microsoft turns this anti-piracy tool into a marketing stream, somethings gone seriously wrong somewhere.Stephen Wildstrom, a writer for BusinessWeek, documents his experience with WGA.My windows...
- Tags: Thoughts, Software, Microsoft, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- EMI DRM-free deal -Shortsighted, risky, and possibly irresponsible to the company's shareholders
- DRM Watch has an interesting article which examines EMIs DRM-free music deal with Apple and now Microsoft. Its been interesting over the past few days to watch the reaction from different tech sectors to the EMI/Apple and then the EMI/Microsoft deal to make DRM-free music with less compression available...
- Tags: Thoughts, Industry, DRM, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
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- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distributionSimple? Compared to what?[i]The procedure works like this: a developer will request your iPhone’s unique identifier. The Identifier is 40-character string that can be found in iTunes by clicking on the word "Serial Number" under the Summary tab when your iPhone is connected. You can...
- Tags: Digital media, Apple iPhone, App Store Ad Hoc distribution, App Store Ad Hoc, App Store, Hands-On, Identifier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- What people hate most about health insurance
- What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- MSI to build LG's X110 netbook?
- MSI has been pretty successful grabbing headlines with their Wind -- and it seems they've impressed LG, too. Today's DigiTimes is reporting that LG is hoping to solicit MSI's services in order to build its own X110 netbook. The mini laptop is said to boast an 8.9-inch...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., MSI, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Memory, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...
- Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?
- Microsoft is ready to launch its campaign to save Vista's reputation, which has been formed by the software giant's miscues as well as Apple's funny ads. The big question: Is this a mess that Microsoft can market its way out of? Ed Bott found the first hints...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Aren't the Nokia N800/N810 devices dead simple web tablets?
- Michael Arrington's post on creating a cheap web tablet is generating a lot of discussion on the internet and as a mobile enthusiast I wanted to add some of my thoughts to the discussion. There is a device available now that has dropped down as low as US$299.99 recently that...
- Tags: Web, Device, Nokia Corp., Michael Arrington, Tablets, Channel Management, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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