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- Microsoft adds 'Skywing' to Windows defense team
- Ken 'Skywing' Johnson, a well-known hacker famous for his work on bypassing several Windows anti-exploitation mechanisms, has joined the software maker to help make it harder to compromise the operating system. Johnson, who teamed up with another recent Microsoft hire -- Matt 'Skape' Miller -- on several...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Defense, Shostack, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ
- Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source  Peter Gutmann - the man who admittedly never used Vista and author of the widely cited and widely discredited paper "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" - has taken his fight in to...
- Tags: Problem, Blog, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC World, Slide, Gutmann, Peter Gutmann, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!
- Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source Update 8/30/2007 - Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ Update 8/16/2007 - Gutmann retreats and refuses to provide slides or any data to support his theories Peter Gutmann...
- Tags: Theory, Digital-rights Management, Power Consumption, Utilization, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, CPU, Global Warming, Gutmann, HD, Peter Gutmann, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- It's Fair Use Day - good luck celebrating it
- Today is Fair Use Day, notes Ars Technica. Not quite recognized as a national holiday, Fair Use Day was crated by Eric Clifford three years ago to raise awareness of the raidly shifting copyright landscape. This year the day is reconized by the Pirate Party of the Unites States, a...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Tablet PCs: Finally getting traction?
- Dell says on its Direct2Dell blog that it will launch a Tablet PC after a few years of what could be called a no confidence vote by not entering the market. Ken Fisher at ArsTechnica sings the praises of his Tablet PC. And increasingly mainstream techies out of the healthcare...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Dell
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Warner's wolf in DVD clothing?
- Under the guise of revitalizing physical media-based music sales given the beating that CD sales are taking due to the Internet, the Wall St. Journal is reporting that Warner Music Group is looking to sell its artists' music on DVDs instead of CDs. According to the story:Warner, the...
- Tags: DVD
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- Michigan makes online courses a requirement
- Ars Technica has posted a fascinating news bit about a new Michigan law that requires students participate in some form of online learning. Ken Fisher, who wrote the piece, asks a pointed and troubling question is his analysis of the legislation."Does America's youth truly need "help" getting the "online" experience?...
- Tags: E-learning, Ars Technica
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Denmark may follow French suit on DRM
- Following the news that the lower house of the French Parliament passed a law requiring interoperable DRM, Denmark now says it wants to do the same. Ken Fisher notes on Ars Technica that: Reportedly, Maersk and the country's largest telecommunications company, TDC, are speaking out in favor...
- Tags: digital-rights management, TDC, Maersk
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami) now official
- So much has been written about these devices already that I thought it might be interesting to take a different tangent on discussing the announcement. You can learn more about the devices themselves from Microsoft's official announcement, the Origami Project website, and ongoing coverage at GottaBeMobile. Channel 9's Robert Scoble...
- Tags: Origami, ultramobile PC
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- VHS profit margins are 20-30%, DVD margins are 50-60%
- Ken Fisher from ArsTechnica points out to the profit margins of VHS and DVD products in the movie business. A slide from Metro-Goldwyn-Myers presentation shows that with suggested retail price of VHS tape at $10 the profit margins for the movie company are at 20-30%, while a DVD priced at...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, VHS, movie
- Blog posts 2005-04-03
- VHS profit margins are 20-30%, DVD margins are 50-60%
- Ken Fisher from ArsTechnica points out to the profit margins of VHS and DVD products in the movie business. A slide from Metro-Goldwyn-Myers presentation shows that with suggested retail price of VHS tape at $10 the profit margins for the movie company are at 20-30%, while a DVD priced at...
- Tags: DVD, VHS
- Blog posts 2005-04-03
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