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- Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
- RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon
- 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.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Is keeping big media alive good for the future of journalism?
- All old media companies need to die off...They are too constrained reliving memories of past glory to change in any meaningful way. What we need are modern 21st century media companies who understand the digital world. If Amazon, Google, or Facebook were to start new media companies, you can bet...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, media company, big media, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over
- Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...
- Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Good riddance: Digital music sales to surpass CDs in 2010?
- Sorry kid. There are plenty of us who buy CDs. You might want to read this:http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22862They are folks who don't give a rat's a$$ about being on the bleeding edge of technology.They have CD players in their cars, and most likely in their homes, and the purchase of an MP3...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, digital music, CD, music, sales, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- HD DVD returns and kicks Blu-ray to the gutter
- Just when Blu-ray thought it had clear sailing, a tempest has risen in the East: China Blue Hi-definition Disk CBHD. Toshiba has licensed its HD DVD to them and it will be the unit world leader in HD optical technology in just 12 months. Why? The Times...
- Tags: HD-DVD, Blu-ray, China Blue Hi-definition Disk, Government, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Vertical Industries, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Startup wants to help newspapers but (get this!) news execs need proof of problem first
- There was a piece in the New York Times this morning that, at the heart of the story, was about a start-up called Attributor, which is launching an ad-revenue sharing service for those who create original content newspapers and those who copy and re-post it some blogs and websites. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Newspaper, Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Internet Radio agreement: Good enough for now
- Hollywood and Silicon Valley have reached an agreement on Internet radio - an experimental payment structure that is far from perfect but much better than the alternative rate system that threatened to put Web-based streaming sites out of business. The agreement creates a tiered-system for the radio...
- Tags: Revenue, Internet Radio, Agreement, Webcaster, SoundExchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?
- As I watched the BBC News last night after getting in from London, I saw riots in China with death tolls surpassing those of the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. Mobile phones have "stopped working" and Internet access is "limited" in the area, according to the news reports. ...
- Tags: China, Web, Nation, Agreement, Internet, Channel Management, Government, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States
- I just finished reading Dana Blankenhorn's post, "Will Ubuntu remain a minor player" on a break between interviews and meetings. Interestingly, just before I read his post, I met with the President of Metasys, a Brazilian company that has Linux-based servers, desktops, and software in thousands of schools, businesses,...
- Tags: Desktop, Ubuntu, Operating System, Metasys, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- 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
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition
- I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...
- Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Global piracy on the rise
- Global piracy on the riseWhat's a loss?Does the loss include dropping your prices to be more inline with the economy of the country you're selling in? Did the drop in piracy coincide with a drop in prices or an increase in enforcement? Or both? Is the BSA...
- Tags: software key, piracy, software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Real misses for Q1, swings to loss; mentions "Facet"
- Real Networks today reported a first quarter loss of $12.1 million, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $140.8 million, a five percent drop from the year-ago quarter. In the year ago quarter, the company reported a net profit of $2.4 million, or 8 cents per share. Statement ...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
- Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billionWindows ROI vs. Open SourceThis makes me wonder how people think theywould be out of business UNLESS they useWindows.$9 BILLION DOLLARS, this puts companies OUTbusiness and customers who are furious withservices that are rendered unavailable dueto insecure software......Tell me again, how does running Windows bring...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Patches, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Conficker, economic cost, virus, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, piracy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- PirateBay founders guilty
- PirateBay founders guiltymehPiracy is NOT "ok". It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's cheap, and it's evil!Now, that being said, I'm going to a flaming pit in a handbasket when I die.The recording/movie industry has no one to blame for their "immense damages" except for themselves. They held onto business practices...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PirateBay, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare
- 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. Larry Dignan: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1 Adrian...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., TechMeme, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
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