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Mark Cuban on downloading movies: We're better off with preloaded hard drives sent UPS

Mark Cuban on downloading movies: We're better off with preloaded hard drives sent UPSHow about Columbia House?The monthly "featured" download that you automatically get unless you tell them not to. Get 13 movies for a penny, as long as you buy 3 more at regular prices in the next two...

Tags: WiMAX, PRODUCTIVITY, DVD-quality video, STREAMING Paradigm, Mbps, Mark Cuban, bandwidth, hard drive, United Parcel Service of America Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-06

FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM

FairUse4WM completely breaks Windows Media DRM"pay per use" being forced on consumersIf you obey the rules, you are feeding the "new pricing models" they want you to buy into.DRM is only a piece of the "Content Restriction, Anulment, and Protection CRAP" puzzle that fits in nicely with the DMCA and...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, STREAMING Paradigm, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-08-29

IPTV set-top box development in high gear

IPTV set-top box development in high gearSTREAMING video?The Streaming Paradigm is in full swing. Why get JUST TV over IP, when you can on-demand EVERYTHING?ExactlyVOD Video on Demand is one of the reasons high-bitrate television broadcasting over IP networks (a.k.a. IPTV) is the wave of the future, as IPTV makes...

Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, TVs, Digital media, STREAMING Paradigm, IP television, VoD, set-top box

Discussion threads 2005-08-30

The well-mannered marketplace

The well-mannered marketplaceThe uncontrollable futureWe are fast approaching the time when media disks is not important. "On Demand" video services and streaming media are technologies that will continue to grow. This is the "Streaming Paradigm" that I attach to the WiMAX steamroller - but it can be considered in its...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Web technology, DVD, media, STREAMING Paradigm, MPAA

Discussion threads 2005-08-19

Additional Resources

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 Years

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 YearsNews Flash: It has ALWAYS been a PAID systemSaying it will become a paid system in 5 years is basically living in a delusional bubble. It has been a paid system from the start.Everyone pays for...

Tags: Internet, pay model

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar

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: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhoneWow... some attack....notntOpen to Ballmer means open to taking your money oropen to taking your ideas oropen to spreading FUD oropen to being too big to fail or justopen to like a trap ready to close at anytime.Tell Ballmer he can talk about open when MS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer, openness, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, attack

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama PresidencyAm I the only one creeped out by this posterIt looks just a little bit too much like this one.http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/LENIN%203.jpglyvegyde - links to live, inaugural webcastsMy brother and I created a website called lyvegyde (http://www.lyvegyde.com) that provides links to live, online events....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Internet Streaming, Interactive Introduction, Internet Inauguration, Obama Presidency, Interactive, TV, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?

Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?Love my AppleTV!The movie selection is improving rapidly, which should help a lot. I think ATV is sort of a "sleeper" that could blossom into something significant for Apple.One of my favorite uses for ATV is looking at photos...

Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, movie selection, TV, DVD, Apple Inc., ATV, Apple iTunes, Apple TV

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3F

How+do+you+benchmark+real-world+work%3Fagree ?You Jest I'm sure! FF3 is faster, very much so and has yet to Freeze Like IE7 which is a joke as far as browsers go!UsabilityThere are three things that would dramatically improve my real world work.The first thing is relatively small but it annoys me. It is...

Tags: Operating systems, FF3, operating system, real world

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Secure ripping from "episodic DVDs" described in just-published Microsoft patent app

A major new Microsoft Patent application entitled DVD identification and managed copy authorization describes and illustrates a secure manner in which DVDs could be enabled for "ripping" of selected sections of media. In other words, and as Paragraph 44 of this app...

Tags: Consumer, Multimedia, Authorization, Activation, Content Provider, Client, Information, Microsoft Corp., Copy, Copy Service, Identification Response, FIG, Authorization Service, Method 1000, Method 1100, Method 1200, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Composition of Java-Based Router Elements and Its Application to Generalized Video Multicast

This paper describes a software router capable of flexible service composition through plug and play of specialized Java software modules. These Java modules - previously developed for network simulation in the J-Sim project - are leveraged for actual deployment on the router through a JSocket class of objects. The system...

Tags: Purdue University, Router, Java, Video, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

FlipViewer 4.2.1 (Windows)

FlipViewer lets you read flip books--photo albums, e-books, catalogs, magazines, comics, and Web pages--created in the Open E-Book Package Format OPF. Using patented technology, FlipViewer presents multipage documents in a realistic 3D-book format, with pages you can flip--a more natural and intuitive interface than scrolling. The book paradigm, with visual...

Tags: Page, E-Book Systems, FlipViewer 4.2.1, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-11-19

Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics

Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-07-01

Cross-Layer Architecture for Adaptive Video Multicast Streaming Over Multirate Wireless LANs

Multicast video streaming over multirate wireless LANs imposes strong demands on video codecs and the underlying network. It is not sufficient that only the video codec or only the underlying protocols adapt to changes in the wireless link quality. Research efforts should be applied in both and in a synchronized...

Tags: Video Codec, Wireless Link, Video, Corporate Communications, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Networking, Marketing

White papers 2007-05-01

Is EDA the 'new' SOA?

Is EDA the 'new' SOA?Some comments from ApamaJohn Bates and I (Mark Palmer, from Progress Apama), were part of the initial discussion that touched off this discussion. I posted this discussion about your article on our blog (http://apama.typepad.com), which I'll re-post here for convenience:This article (Is EDA the ‘new'...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Even Microsoft, CEP, SOA, EDA, Progress Apama

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion

YouTube could be a steal at $1 billionIt all dependson whether other companies are as stupid as Sony and fall into dot-com boom stupidity 2.0 (known as Web 2.0 for short) or whether they realize Sony is just a stupid company that blew $65 million dollars.As silly and as stupid...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Emperor, YouTube Inc., video, advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-08-24

Why I don't want a wireless iPod

Why I don't want a wireless iPodKeep itNo, I don't see the big draw to wireless iPods. I'm happy to download music from iTunes on my Mac. Then I have my music backed up on two sources, and I'd rather listen over my Klipsch speakers on the Mac when...

Tags: Digital music, Engineering, Digital media, Wi-Fi, streaming video, Apple iPod, battery, music, wireless, phone

Discussion threads 2006-08-18

Stalemate seen in high-definition DVD war

Stalemate seen in high-definition DVD warWho cares?I haven't really seen a strong need for Hi Def anything. Guess I'm one of the late adopters in video consumption. I haven't seen the need to lay out a minimum of $2500 for an acceptable sized HD monitor and another $1000 for the...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Advertising & Promotion, Maxtor Corp., media, DVD, DVD-R, hard drive

Discussion threads 2006-08-11