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Microsoft and Yahoo further deepen ties

First came the way Yahoo's music store only sells music that's copy protected by Microsoft digital restrictions management (DRM technology. In other words, it only plays back on Microsoft PlaysForSure-compliant products. (By the way, the way Yahoo just doubled the price of its portable music subscription service is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., music, Open Content Alliance

Blog posts 2005-10-31

DRM technology has its first two major trainwrecks

Sooner or later, it was bound to happen -- a Digital Restrictions Management DRM management technology that, by design, often keeps you from consuming that content on devices that use other DRM technologies actually ends up keeping you from consuming content that's protected by it as well. Talk...

Tags: Digital Restrictions Management, digital-rights management, DRM Technology

Blog posts 2005-10-28

Some context in the DRM debate

David Berlind has declared war on DRM. The source of his discontent appears to be that once you start to use music DRMed using the technology owned by a particular company, you will always be dependent on that company, however indirectly, in order to play that media. Given that...

Tags: media, DRM Technology, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2005-10-06

Sonos responds to Declaration of InDRMpendence

Late last week, I was inspired to write a Declaration of InDRMpendence (declaring my freedom from Digital Restrictions Management [DRM] technology) by my good friend who mistakenly recommended Sonos' wireless-mesh based whole home audio system. He was certain that it could play all of the songs he's purchased...

Tags: Sonos, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2005-10-05

Windows Media DRM

DRM technology has emerged as a measure to protect the copyright of content owners and to facilitate the consumption of digital content governed by specific rules. It's a technology that is being developed as a protection against the illegal distribution of digital content. This white paper provides an overview of...

Tags: Windows Media, Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Windows, DRM Technology, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-04-04

Additional Resources

Macsome AudioBook Converter 1.3.1 (Mac)

Macsome Audiobook Converter for Mac is a powerful converter to convert any audio books which could be played on iTunes. The conversion is 5X speed fast, and output could be CD quality. It is also a .aa converter, audio book to MP3 converter. It converts any Audio Book from iTunes...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MP3, Apple iTunes, Audio Book, Macsome, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-30

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Sonos ZonePlayer S5

We've long been fans of the Sonos Digital Music System, which lets you stream all manner of digital audio throughout your home, but we were always a bit disappointed that Sonos didn't sell a speaker that had the system's ZonePlayer networking component integrated right into it. Well, that's exactly what...

Tags: Ethernet, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Network technology, Wireless and Mobility, Sonos

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files

ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...

Tags: Strategy, wireless, Acta, rights holder, shut-off, intellectual property

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

MAC M4P Converter for iTunes 6.0.0 (Mac)

MAC M4P Converter is an audio and music files M4P to MP3 converter. It converts any DRM protected iTunes music files (such as M4P, M4A, M4B) and unprotected music (such as MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, AA, aif) to plain MP3, WAV or AAC formats. Then you can share these converted...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MAC, Digital-rights Management, MP3, Apple iTunes, AhaMediaSoft, MAC M4P Converter, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

If it's ...... easier than Win7 to install, they will have a winner!^o^Yawn, another boring launch of another boring linux distro. No excitement, people aren't enthused. There is nothing new here. As I said...BORING.Well 9.04 was not diffcult to install Not sure what you are going for here 9.04 was...

Tags: Linux, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, KDE 4 Desktop, Win7, Ubuntu, HDCP, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Optical storage: RIP

Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...

Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives

Miami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced that they are OEM licensing their virtualization technology and ICAP so that any PC vendor may easily produce Mac clones. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Apple Mac OS, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Apple iTunes 9

Photo gallery:Apple iTunes 9As one of the most popular programs for managing music and video content on a personal computer, Apple's iTunes software has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Version 9 of iTunes brings a handful of enhancements to Apple's ubiquitous media software, including an improved storefront,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes LP

Product reviews 2009-09-25

Open source does not work well for bad guys

Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...

Tags: open source, bad guy, Conficker, Linux, Closed Source

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

I agreeusb flash drive would be betterBut, why are you asking the question about the Beatles?Minor CorrectionDL DVDs hold 8.4GB and not 5.4In regards to the article I think Optical Media is a media that is slowly phasing out but the cost of the media for most purposes is still...

Tags: Flash memory, Consumer electronics, optical media, USB flash drive, DVD, optical drive

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits

Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, layoff, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, server

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Sony to ship Chrome with Vaio PCs

So the two biggest offenders of privacy want to collaborate on PC software? This is simply hilarious! Sony's pre-installed rootkit and Google's Chrome which sends data to Google and becomes their property on everything you browse working together on the same PC is just a bad idea. ...

Tags: Rootkits, Desktops, PC, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students

What would we want in an ideal e-reader to jam in our students' backpacks? I've talked about it before (there are links to my other e-textbook musings in this particular post, too), but we'd certainly want color and high-resolution images. Touch and note-taking capabilities are obvious choices. And...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-26