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- Dissecting Microsoft's copyright scrum with Google
- Dissecting Microsoft's copyright scrum with GoogleThat is true, Google is just making it a whole lot easier to find books,but you still have to buy the book once you know it has the type of content you are looking for. This actually HELPS the publisher sell books.Another thing, established publishers...
- Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, Tablets, Notebooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tablet PC, Google Inc., licence fee, Microsoft Corp., book publisher
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Something by Ben Schaffer
- Something by Ben Schafferyou must be talking about open sourcePreciesly what open source is all aboutGive it for free and make a sucker out of you for a long long time.Look at what MySQL just did.Initially give it for free and now charge $4995 for 1 year licence fee and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Fedora Project, licence fee
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Altnet seeks patent royalties from P2P
- Altnet seeks patent royalties from P2PInstead of suing sharing networks, seek licences from Microsoft, and telcosRidiculous claim: P2P technics are used wince long for key Internet protocols: host discovery mechanisms, IP routing stategies, gateway-to-gateway protocols depend on the oldest P2P network that seems to exist since the very early years...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), NETWORKING, P2P, Altnet, network, technic, licence fee, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-13
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- SapphireJPG (Mobile)
- Product Details The Sapphire JPG utility provides the Visual Studio developer with the ability to convert .bmp bitmap image files to .jpg JPEG files. Product Features The Sapphire JPG Utility makes bitmap conversion easy with the following features: Convert .bmp to .jpg file You can download the latest demo version...
- Tags: Mobile, Dynamic-link Library, JPEG, Bitmap, Demo Version
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- FLV/F4V Flash Online Video Player 1.4 (Windows)
- Free Flash PlayerKey features: Completely Free to use, no licence fee (see terms & conditions); Easily embed into your company or personal website; Play, search, pause, chapter jump navigation plus timecode and volume controls; Fully resizeable width and height to fit any website with Fullscreen Option; Fully changeable holding picture...
- Tags: Online Video, Microsoft Windows, Video, Web Site, Ossian Productions, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Windows 7 OEM pricing emerges ... some serious discounts available
- You forgot to mention ...... That OEM means it must be pre-installed on the machine that was purchased by the end user ... meaning it cannot LEGALLY be purchased for installation by your average Joe ... I own a small IT company in Canada, and I have a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, OEM, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Windows 7 customers still paying for Microsoft's Ultimate mistakes
- RE: Windows 7 customers still paying for Microsoft's Ultimate mistakesI'll stick with XP until they stop supporting it, or until I need a new pc, in which case I'll probably get Home basic or Premium.With what Ultimate cost meI'm not switching. Gouge me once, shame on you. Gouge me twice...Thats...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Win 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- How will Microsoft fix Windows Mobile? The Softies still aren't saying
- How will Microsoft fix Windows Mobile? The Softies still aren't sayingIt won't slip . . .there's absolutely too much at stake. The mobile marketplace will depend on WM7 being released in a timely fashion. I for one would like to see this pink device come to fruition. There are legions...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Mobile applications, laptop hunter, Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., mobile, WM7, phone, Microsoft Windows, Softies, advertisement, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- DRM licensing group plan to plug analog hole
- DRM licensing group plan to plug analog holeI don't piratebut I hate DRM. It's a huge scam that penalizes legitimate users and doesn't do anything to stop real pirates. It makes me disrespect the industry and less likely to buy encumbered products. In my life, I have bought a total...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, analog output, piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- HP Relocation Team Delivered a Seamless Move for BBC Worldwide
- BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC. It manages seven operating businesses - Global Channels, Sales & Distribution, Content & Production, Magazines, Home Entertainment Global Brands and Digital Media and its profits are delivered back to the BBC, supplementing the Corporation's licence fee funding. When BBC Worldwide decided...
- Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., BBC Worldwide Ltd., Team Management, Home Entertainment, Sales Strategy, Management, Personal Technology, Sales
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- MobiForms Advanced Edition (Mobile)
- The MobiForms Advanced Edition is a suite of tools consisting of the globally successful MobiForms Developer and the new complementary MobiForms Sync Server. MobiForms uses Java, but the Java layer is totally hidden behind an intuitive drag and interface enabling any novice or expert programmer alike to create mobile business...
- Tags: Mobile, MobiForms, MobiForms Advanced Edition, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-05-10
- Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknesses
- Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknessesCar Licence PlatesThe plates could be fitted with transponders to report their public key when scanned by a speed camera.Hey, then you could put sensors in red light cameras, and intersections, and motorway monitoring systems. This would make it much easier for the...
- Tags: public identity weakness, identity weakness, car, camera, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-12-22
- University music tax: sharing and caring?
- In the last few days, a plan devised by men in shiny suits, employees of the devil himself and the occasional dictator-regime supporter to create what can and should only be described as a "music tax for students". But wait, because this is a good thing. I'd...
- Tags: Tax, Student, Music, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?I'm happy for television and on-demand.I do have my antenna with my HDTV, so I can watch local shows broadcasted from ABC, FOX, and CBS (don't care for NBC due to broadcasting in real channel 2 in zip code 32304). I only watch local digital...
- Tags: ABC Inc., BBC website, British Broadcasting Corp., broadcasting, NBC Universal Inc., on-demand, traditional broadcasting, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...
- Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
- After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....
- Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- EU slaps Microsoft with $1.35 billion fine
- The European Commission has hit Microsoft with an 899 million euro fine for charging unreasonable prices for access "to interface documentations for work group servers" prior to Oct. 22, 2007 and failure to adhere to a March 2004 antitrust ruling. That fine equates to $1.35 billion or so--a big chunk...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenantJust don't buy any new MS apps.Use their old stuff that you already own and then make the switch to Open Office on new systems. There is no sound business reason to be held hostage by Microsoft. It would have cost them nothing but...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Word processors, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Many people fondly believe â€" in common with Talkback poster jim_d to my previous post â€" that when they pay a one-time fee to buy a 'perpetual' licence to use conventional software, then that's their only cost. But as I pointed out in my riposte, that fails to take into...
- Tags: Cost, Licence, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Security, Management, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Watching TV on the laptop--and on the cheap
- Watching TV on the laptop--and on the cheap[b]a show about meerkats is probably the best TV on the Internet[/b]You should also check out Survivorman and Man vs Wild. They're no Meerkat Manor, but they both beat anything on broadcast TV hands down.FreetubeA good site he missed is Freetube atwww.freetube.110mb.comFreetube...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Notebooks, Watching TV, TV, laptop computer, Freetube
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
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