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- MIX08 keynote rundown
- I was at the Microsoft MIX08 keynote today and Microsoft unveiled a few really cool things and a few not so much things. Obviously I work for Adobe so all the standard disclaimers apply. First things first, lots of new bits. They dropped versions of Silverlight 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Silverlight Penetration, Productivity, Business Structures, Advertising & Promotion, AJAX, Finance, Marketing, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft’s Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...
- Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Diaz Memo, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide
- With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity to slam it's iron fist onto the web in hope of crushing the same competitors as before. ...
- Tags: Office 2.0, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Adobe lands MLB.com deal
- updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers. Games...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- The domestic digital divide
- We've heard a lot recently about how poor our broadband penetration is in this country. It's true, in fact, that too great a percentage of our students simply don't have access to high-speed internet at home like their European and Asian counterparts. What we all too often overlook...
- Tags: Broadband, Satellite, Hughes, Network Technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- $10k hacking contest announced
- Israeli software developer Gizmox is challenging hackers to try hacking into the company's Visual WebGui Platform, by offering a $10,000 incentive to those who manage to achieve the objectives of their contest launched at the beginning of the month. What's particularly interesting about the contest is the fact that the...
- Tags: Contest, Identity, Gizmox, Hacking, Semantic Web, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- CIO Sessions: Netflix Chief Product Officer: Neil Hunt
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about transforming the company's movie rental service from DVDs by mail to online delivery. He also discusses how the company is using digital rights management solutions, developing new delivery platforms and bringing its movies to Mac users....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Digital-rights Management, Officer, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Rights management via Silverlight
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, says that by using Silverlight's "play ready" technology, Netflix can offer most Mac users the ability to watch movies instantly while still protecting the rights of the movie owners. by Administrator
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Movie, Rights-management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Why IE 8 won't use the WebKit rendering engine
- Why IE 8 won't use the WebKit rendering engineYou have to stop using Net Applications.It is an IIS driven opt in unknown methodology counting system. There is no reason to believe it represents reality except as stated, in a custom network of IIS driven click driven network. It...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, WebKit, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on it
- Microsoft? IE? WebKit? Don't count on itAs long as IE Supports Web StandardsWhy should they turn to WebKit? Imagine a software world where everything was open source? That to me is scary. Where is the innovation in open source? Where is the competition that drives innovation...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., WebKit, Microsoft Internet Explorer, open source, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?
- Regular readers know that not only am I something of a tree-hugger, but I've recently become convinced that social media (not MySpace and Facebook, but the wide variety of Web 2.0, collaboration, and communication tools available to us on the Web) can have a very important place in education. ...
- Tags: School, Student, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- No longer safe: WPA encryption cracked in 12 to 15 minutes
- No longer safe: WPA encryption cracked in 12 to 15 minutesI've said it before, I'll say it again...Wireless and Retail do not mix!http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45392&messageID=838312&start=-9957WPA is not cracked - only TKIP is, no access to data..Here is why :- Attack does not give you access to the data transmited- Why? Only the...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, WIRELESS, TKIP, WPA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7
- Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7In the next 12 months . . .WM7 is way more important than Azure and W7 combined. M$ has to right this sinking WM ship. Apple is eating their lunch, and now Google has entered the fray with their very compelling G1...
- Tags: Operating systems, enterprise market, Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, WM7
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Architecting your Rich Internet Applications
- Josh Holmes has posted a set of slides and detailed explanation for a talk he and James Ward did about architecting rich Internet applications. The post and the slides are well worth a read. One of the things that has been both fun and terrifying to watch as Flex evolved...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Slide, Josh Holmes, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack StrategyTruth in advertising.Given the seriousness of a decision to attempt Linux, people should be told that the software they bought won't work, their music won't play, and they'll have to rediscover everything they thought they knew about computing.Linux is a full (and perhaps full-time) commitment. ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the MacYipee!!I tried this out tonight! Compared to rebooting bootcamp in Windows XP and using IE, this is a whole lot better!I've tried a few movies and it works very well. I like the sort-of previews you get while dragging the time-cursor, sort of allows...
- Tags: Desktops, Cable, Web browsers, video quality, NetFlix Inc., Netflix Watch, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Netflix Watch Instantly comes to the Mac
- A week after a limited pool of Mac users were asked to test it, Netflix has opened the streaming portion of its movie rental service to all Mac users. The service, called Watch Instantly, uses utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in. A post on the Netflix blog...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
- One would assume that popular sources for zero day vulnerabilities+Poc's such as Full-Disclosure, Bugtraq or Milw0rm are the primary sources for obtaining responsibly or irresponsibly released flaws. They'd be wrong. The black market for zero day vulnerabilities and the concept of over-the-counter OTC trade of zero day flaws, has been...
- Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Web Application, SQL Injection, Exploit, Day Vulnerability, E-shop, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?
- Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?RE: Microsoft: shaky future or rocking and rolling?Microsoft is not going to go away any time soon. They are the predominate force in IT with its massive spendeing in advertisement to essentially brain wash the industry, and dumbing down the IT industry with the...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Microsoft .NET, Java, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
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