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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
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- Seesmic snags Washington Post
- Just after tonight's McCain/Obama debate ended I received a Tweet message from Cathy Brooks, head of business development at Seesmic telling me the company has snagged the Washington Post as a customer. Seesmic has developed a 'white label' version of its service for the Washington Post's political...
- Tags: Washington Post Co., Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower
- A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Restraining order against RealDVD stands
- As I suspected, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel today granted a temporary restraining order against Real's selling its RealDVD software. Real's next hope: a full-blown hearing into a permanent injunction. The judge said she needed more time to fully investigate whether the software in fact violates the Digital...
- Tags: Copy Protection, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Obama, McCain support making debates public
- Both Obama and McCain have come out in favor of the Open Debate Coalition's call to open the presidential debates for fair use on the Internet, Wired reports. Obama sent a letter to Coalition leader Larry Lessig. He quoted his own letter to Democratic Party chairman last...
- Tags: Debate, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.
- HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- DVDO unleashes Edge high-definition video processor/input hub
- Home theater fans who aren't satisfied with their HDTVs' built-in video processing and/or just can't get enough HDMI ports into their setups may want to take a gander at DVDO's new Edge, which combines technology from Anchor Bay to improve video quality while also doubling as...
- Tags: HDMI, Video, DVDO, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Microsoft Live Search now embedded in Facebook
- When Microsoft announced it had struck a deal with Facebook to integrate its Live Search technology into the Facebook platform, the Redmondians were reluctant to share details. But as of today, October 7, Live Search is now part of Facebook. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Redmond Pie Site, Business Structures, Internet, Blogging, Search, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- CIO Sessions: Visa's Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...
- Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Scammers introduce ATM skimmers with built-in SMS notification
- The bust of the notorious ATM scammer going under the handle of Cha0 in early September, once again puts ATM skimming in the spotlight. Among the main insecurities scammers face while embedding an ATM skimmer, is the retrieval process of the device that is now containing the credit card details...
- Tags: Device, Credit Card, built-In, SMS, Scammer, ATM, Network Technology, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere.
- Tags: Visa Inc., CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Visa
- Videos 2008-10-07
- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...
- Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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