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Gutmann Vista DRM paper uses shoddy Web Forums as source

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann made a name for himself when he published his paper “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection� and got worldwide attention for outlining some serious concerns about Windows Vista DRM mechanisms. But Peter Gutmann admittedly doesn't use Windows Vista and he's publicly asked for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Web, Windows Media, Digital-rights Management, WMV, Microsoft Windows Vista, Fact, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Peter Gutmann, AudioDG, WMP11, Media Foundation, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-01

Changes to the Audio Stack and Changes in Windows Media Player Audio Playback Behavior in Windows Vista

To improve reliability and to simplify audio application development in Windows Vista, the Windows audio stack has been redesigned. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 uses a new multimedia API in Windows Vista that is called Media Foundation. Media Foundation provides Windows Media Audio WMA, Windows Media Video WMV, and MP3...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Audio, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows Vista, Media Player, Audio Playback, Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, Media Foundation, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Music, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

White papers 2006-11-13

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FastPictureViewer WIC Codec Pack 1.50 (Windows)

A set of free 32-bit and 64-bit codecs that enable full support for raw image formats from 12 manufacturers, covering 300 digital cameras in Windows 7, Vista and XP. Provides thumbnail support in Windows Explorer, along with viewing and slideshows in Photo Gallery / Photo Viewer and Window 7's Media...

Tags: Codec, Photograph, Axel Rietschin Software Developments, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-27

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

ACUCW2 - Administering Cisco Unified Communications Workspace Part 2: Advanced

View Available Dates and LocationsThis hands-on, Global Knowledge-exclusive course builds on the foundation provided by ACUCW1 (Administering Cisco Unified Communications Workspace Part 1: Basic) and focuses on the advanced administration aspects of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM v6.x/7.x products and client devices. You will learn how to configure the...

Tags: Unified Communications, Mobility, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless And Mobility

Training 2009-11-01

Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour

Recently, various outlets, such as TechCrunch, had reported that an early build of Chrome OS has been leaked into the wild. Well, I hate to tell you but those reports weren't exactly accurate. What leaked was in fact was an Alpha/Beta implementation of the Chromium browser that...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Killing cancer with social media

Thank you so much for your support.What I've really learned is that as silly as some people make things like Twitter and Facebook out to be...they are amazingly strong platforms for connecting people. And this isn't me starting a social network for people caring about cancer, this has gotten...

Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

What really happened to Wikipedia

Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

Deja VuSince it's already been tried so many times before, what makes you think it'll work this time?Tablets are dirty, if not now, they will be soon as people can't keep their fingers off them ;-)WiznotesWhat do you think about students from high school to college using Wiznotes for taking...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet computer, Wiznotes, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-08-16

Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray

I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...

Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus

Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...

Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with itBasically, student don't appreciate the effort going into music/videosTheir world is focussed on their own wants and desires, rather those those with whom they do not share much thinking-wise.It is only after having to appreciate the value of their own efforts that values...

Tags: Operational accounting, Overall IT, Downloading Content, music

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Apple withdraws legal threats against Bluwiki

OdioWorks LLC runs a free and open wiki service called BluWiki which has drawn threats from Apple's legal department for hosting a wiki for iTunesDB. Apple's issue is that iTunesDB is an attempt to learn about iTunes' database file system and create third-party software that can replicate...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apple Inc., OdioWorks LLC, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Facing Windows 7 E browser issues head on

Network adminstrators around Europe are loading their weapons, stockpiling painkillers, knotting their ropes and sharpening their blades at the prospect of Windows 7 E. Meanwhile, novice consumers are baffled and confused as to how they will get a browser installed on their computer. For those who are unaware...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Bill Gates - the science guy

Bill Gates - the science guyMust be nice, spending other people's money.And feeling "good" because of it.Well Gates, in the grander scheme of things, you're a thief. And giving away what you took from others is not going to change that.Funny how all this philanthropy... comes with strings attached to...

Tags: Corporate communications, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., science guy

Discussion threads 2009-07-17