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- gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'
- Gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'Dumbest thing I've heard todayIf you need to burn off some of your profits, Gibson, why not do a price drop on your product instead of feeding it to your lawyers?
- Tags: Gibson, Rock Band, Guitar Hero
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent
- Gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patentTotally BogusNot only did Gibson wait three *YEARS* to file this, but they also licensed the guitar design to begin with, so its not like it was a secret. One can assume that they will soon file a lawsuit against the makers of Rock Band...
- Tags: Games, Gibson, Guitar Hero, Activision Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: gibson
- Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: GibsonMessage has been deleted.That doesn't compare with a patent for toilet paperI have it. Everyone who wipes their a** now owes me money.The inspiration for the patent came from inspiration from a foundation comprising of idiots who patent the obvious.I'm so brilliant.-MWow! Gibson's showroom must...
- Tags: Games, Guitar Hero 3, Gibson, patent, Activision Inc., Guitar Hero
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- gibson's self-tuning guitar
- CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a guitar that can tune itself, saving time and making it possible for musicians to carry only one guitar instead of several. After selecting a key, a computer embedded in the back of the guitar takes over from there and automatically tunes...
- Tags: Michael Kanellos, News.com, Gibson, Productivity, Robots, music, Home Entertainment
- Videos 2007-12-05
- Opening act for gibson's self-tuning guitar
- Opening act for Gibson's self-tuning guitarSounds fancyHow lazy would you have to be to use one of these? Really, tuning is not the hardest or most time consuming thing in the world.Now show me a 'robot' that can tune a guitar with a floyd rose and level the bridge and...
- Tags: Robots, guitar, Gibson, self-tuning guitar, tuning
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Photos: gibson's self-tuning six string
- Gibson has come out with a Les Paul guitar that tunes itself. by CNET News.com
- Tags: String, Photograph, News.com, Gibson, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-03
- William gibson heads for 'Spook Country'
- William Gibson heads for 'Spook Country'A point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonA point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonPosted in Uncategorized by chrisbradley on the October 4th, 2007Let’s get started on the best note possible. William Gibson stated yesterday in the California Literary Review that...
- Tags: Marketing research, Spook Country, Milgrim, William Gibson, Tito, Gibson
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- We're all swimming in media now
- William Gibson, "Father of Cyberpunk," long known for his prescience, has put his finger on a fundamental truth about the world we live in today. His new book, Spook Country, contains a couple passages everyone concerned with media business models should read and consider (along with the rest of the...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Media, William Gibson, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Video: Weblogs in the classroom
- Will Richardson, who writes the weblogg-ed blog, has posted links to a video presented at the National Education Computing Conference back in 2004. If you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth a quick look (quick over a broadband connection, that is). Here's a quasi-transcript of the section where...
- Tags: Richardson
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Steve gibson weighs in on WPA-PSK keys
- When I got an email from a gentleman pointing me to a link where the great Steve Gibson weighed in on my blog about sufficient key lengths for WPA-PSK keys, I knew I had to brace myself for a good old fashion can of WA. Little did I know...
- Tags: WPA-PSK cracking tool, WPA-PSK Cracking
- Blog posts 2005-11-15
- Putting the Sarbanes-Oxley Pieces Together - What You Need to Know Now
- This webcast will focus on areas and issues to watch out for in the continuously-changing landscape of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Some of our key corporate and securities attorneys will share their views on how to avoid potential pitfalls and offer practical advice rather than merely a technical review of the...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, Webcast, security
- Webcasts 2004-12-17
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- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)
- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)Competition for TransperformanceThe automatically tuned guitar has already been done, but it looks like Gibson has significantly reduced the size and weight of the components. I'm curious if it allows non-standard tunings to be pre-programmed and called up at will.http://transperformance.com/RE: (Photos: Taking apart the robot...
- Tags: Robots, tuning, robot, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and...
- Tags: Upheaval, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- News to know: Microsoft, Apple update techniques; Ubuntu; Hacking Java; XP SP3
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery (right). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 ...
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Technique, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Hacking, Social Media, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Australian Tax Office CIO: Bill gibson
- Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax Office, talks to ZDNet Australia about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together. He also discusses new collaboration technologies he's exploring within his organization, such...
- Tags: CIO, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Red Hat takes the open source security challenge
- One big hole for open source lies in security. It's not a real hole. It's a meta-hole. But we still view it as a hole, so it's a hole. That hole opened up again in Australia this week, where a "loud minority" got personal...
- Tags: Security, Red Hat Inc., Hole, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, GNOME, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Channel Management, Virtualization, Internet, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- The+SSD+failure+debate
- The+SSD+failure+debateMost SSD doom and gloom writers seem uninformedThey know one thing - that NAND and NOR have erase cycle endurance limitations. Then, they create a whole doom and gloom campaign around that one limitation. It's irresponsible technical journalism. Not only are SSD's super reliable, they are are future...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Notebooks, Storage, SSD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- The SSD failure debate
- To listen to some people talk about it, Solid State Drives (SSDs) – like the 64GM model from Samsung that you can get in the new MacBook Air – are doomed to fail. SSD is defined as "A disk drive that uses memory chips instead of rotating...
- Tags: Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?
- Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?Is it that slippery, though?I'm about to get long-winded, so be prepared:I'm a woman, and am offended by the word. But that doesn't give me the right to tell people not to be, or to forbid others...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Mel Gibson, C
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
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