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- Office 2010 to expand antipiracy features
- Doublespeak, plain and simpleI don't know why corporate types are so bent on trying to make everything sound like they are doing some sort of favor to the customer. It's a disease that permeates corporate America. And since it's so easy to see through, it does nothing but lessen the...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Office, antipiracy, piracy, piracy rate, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Family entertainment act
- There was an assertionin the comments on the story Guns 'n' Roses that the prosecution would have to prove some economic damages. How do they plan on proving financial impact in court? Piracy rates are calculated by comparing ESTIMATED demand for a product...
- Tags: Entertainment, Title, Piracy Rate, Sales Strategy, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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- Piracy and the Apple App Store
- PiracyI'm curious as to how they discovered that 80%. I'm assuming (I know, bad idea) that they post the app on the app store (well, Apple does after reviewing it) and someone has to buy it in order to pirate it or is the App store itself broken into? If...
- Tags: Games, piracy, game, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?
- Dial-up connections and malware?What percentage of the world runs their Windows machines on a dial-up connection? On those machines, it can take HOURS to download routine security patches, and most people aren't that patient.It sure does . . ."The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users relying on...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, security, computer, malware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?
- Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report by the Business Software Alliance BSA which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources. The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users...
- Tags: Software Piracy, Patch Management, Malware, Malware Infection Rate, Infection Rate, Patches, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Jailbreaking the iPhone is cool, piracy is not!
- how about protecting the consumer?That whould be a nice change. the iphone and ipod touch is NOT a gaming console. Peoples should be able to run any program they want for the device they PAID FOR.Apple artificial crippling of the iPhone is outright CRIMINAL, Apple should be punish and FORCED...
- Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Snow Leopard might crash your apps
- This just has to be a Microsoft plot.LOL...LOL. :DRE: Snow Leopard might crash your appsNonsense, the latest mac hunter ad said we didn't have to worry about that and that a mac just works. Are you calling them liars?How did Apple phrase it in their commercials?That sure sounds like [i]a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Operating systems, OS X., Snow Leopard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Microsoft confirms Windows 7 activation leak
- Microsoft confirms Windows 7 activation leakSo who's responsible for the leak?The sender or the sendee?Pagan Jim will be happy about thishttp://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=67344&messageID=1278112He proudly admits to installing hundreds of copies of XP without buying a single license. Disgusting.RE: Microsoft confirms Windows 7 activation leakThis is one way for Microsoft to get market...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 activation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Microsoft does a 180: Tech testers to get a copy of Windows 7 for free
- Microsoft does a 180: Tech testers to get a copy of Windows 7 for freeStill not the right thingThe public testers are the ones taking the risks with their personal equipment to see how the software works in the wild when the hardware is not cookie-cutter and the software being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, MicroSoft DOES, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- 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
- 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
- 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
- China and IP: the piper will get paid
- China and IP: the piper will get paidThe poetic justice is this....Our greedy US corporations sent all of their manufacturing to the far east and thus trained them on how to create these knock-offs. When you lay down with dogs....Chinese government is not just looking the other way, they are...
- Tags: IP, Federal Reserve Board, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- 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
- And speaking of keeping kids safe online
- As yet another young person finds herself in hot water over pictures posted on MySpace (this time, a 14-year old faces child porn charges after posting explicit photos of herself so that her boyfriend could see), a new organization has emerged to teach kids about responsible, sensible Internet usage. ...
- Tags: Cell Phone, Webwisekids.org, Webwisekids, Games, Cellular Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Report: 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities mitigated by Least Privilege accounts
- A recently released report by BeyondTrust entitled "Reducing the Threat from Microsoft Vulnerabilities" indicates that that according to the company's analysis of all the security bulletins Microsoft published in 2008, 92% of the critical vulnerabilities could have been mitigated by the principle of the least privilege. Despite...
- Tags: Web, Administrator, Vulnerability, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Interview: Wired's Chris Anderson on the 'free' business model
- As editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson is considered one of the most knowledgeable and insightful voices at the center of the new economy. In his articles and New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail, he has identified important new trends in the economy and described new business models...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Wired Inc., Shelf Space, Business Model, Computer Associates International Inc., Economy, Netbook, Anderson, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip
- RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whipI can't help but wonder......how much the RIAA is paying the ISPs to risk opening themselves up to lawsuits. I really can't see how an ISP can legally cut off someone's account based on the RIAA's say-so.Time for honesty ...Your...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), RIAA, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-12-19
- The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands
- Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...
- Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Remedying the trade imbalance with China
- Remedying the trade imbalance with ChinaCopyright and patentYour discussion of the IP to be protected mentions copyright but not patents. For example:Knowledge products the stuff normally covered by copyright is the category of goods that relies so heavily on copyright. [End quote]Because software can be protected effectively only by...
- Tags: Manufacturing, patent, trade imbalance, imbalance, Remedying, software, patent violation
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
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