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Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liable

Another day, another crazy turn in the Tenenbaum trial. First Joel admits that he downloaded and uploaded a multitude of songs. So the plaintiffs ask for a directed verdict taking the decision away from the jury on the issue of liability and other issues. Yesterday the judge denied the motion,...

Tags: Liability, Jury, Tenenbaum, Ray Beckerman, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Blond Jokes 2.0.7 (Mobile)

Choose from hundreds of carefully screened blond jokes, selected and sorted by a jury of professional jokesters. Hundreds of Blond jokes, comical sound effects, rotating background images, and the definitive blond joke book.

Tags: Mobile, Background Image, Jury, Joke, Mark Greenfield

Software downloads 2009-07-29

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

$1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says

While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...

Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06

3 days from Shanghai

I'm typing away here on my new MacBook, freshly arrived today from Shanghai, via Anchorage and Indianapolis. A mere 3 days after it left the factory in China, I received a tracking notice on my phone from FedEx that it had been delivered and signed for by my favorite...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Jury, Teacher, Touchpad, Desktops, Linux, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Lenovo: Does it have the design chops?

Lenovo announced plans to enter the consumer market Thursday with a line of laptops that incorporate some interesting features--bezel-less screens, face recognition and linen texture lids. Will those design additions be enough to make a dent in the consumer market? The jury is still out on that...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Jury, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-03

$222,000 fine for music infringement? GMAFB

By now, the news is bouncing around that a Duluth, Minnesota jury has found that Jammie Thomas, 30, is guilty of copyright infringement. Thomas' sins, it would seem from the verdict, are downloading too many songs via KaZaA. The 24 downloads contested by big...

Tags: Jury, Music, Thomas, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Microsoft resets its search targets

Until this week, Microsoft officials presented an unambiguous position on search: Microsoft is No. 3, but it would keep trying and trying until it unseated Google. To get there, Microsoft planned to pour time and money into building both its desination search (www.live.com) search and convenience search (i.e., Live Search...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Jury, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Vonage: The patent pain continues

A federal jury has ruled that Vonage has to pay $69.5 million in damages to Sprint Nextel for using its patents. The verdict, reported by Bloomberg and Reuters, also means that Vonage has to pay Sprint a 5 percent royalty on future revenue. The decision was handed down...

Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Jury, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-25

UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.

The bad news, after the latest round of cell phone cancer research, is that cell phones have yet to be ruled out as a potential cause of brain cancer "or whether children face greater risks than adults, British scientists said on Wednesday." The cell phone industry would have you...

Tags: Phone, Radio, Cell Phone, Jury, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-12

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Additional Resources

Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year

In other words, Google Appsare still at that 1 to 2 percent mark.Good Riddance!It won't be missed.Man, so true, MS Office is a big hairball of baroque features to format for8.5x11. MS Office will be on a downward slide from here on out.In terms of what is need for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Google hopes to remake programming with Go

Could be a really cool programming for old C/C programmers!!I will definitely try it out.No. No pointers.Umm, no. No pointers, no "*" symbols littered in my code anymore, thanks.. . . and, frankly, it pushes typing from bad to worse. No OOP, and no replacement, other than what...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Development tools, Programming languages, cloud computing, large project, object-oriented programming, Google Inc., programming

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

TechRepublic's CIO Jury finds that IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google as a technology partner, but tune in next year. Jason Hiner outlines the latest findings in the TechRepublic CIO Jury. In a nutshell, it looks like this: So...

Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise, Jason Hiner, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents

Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Windows 7 podcast: What will the upgrade cycle look like?

With Windows 7 set for lift-off on Thursday, Jason Hiner, Mary Jo Foley and I handicap the Windows 7 upgrade cycle. We expect the consumer to lead the first wave of adoption with enterprises bringing up the rear in the back half. You can play this 17-minute...

Tags: Podcast, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Google Wave: The moral equivalent of sliced bread

So far, there seems to be a bit of schism here at ZDNet over the utility of Google Wave. Some of us really dig it, the jury is still out for others, and our resident dinosaur, Jason Perlow doesn't get it. I have to call him out on this...

Tags: Google Inc., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-14