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- Sign of a sea change
- This is the way a titan ends, not with a bang, but with a squadron of emaciated temps brought in to march picket-like promotional signs up and down Newport Boulevard and no doubt Sunset Boulevard; sullen attendants in a funeral procession.As Charles Andrews writes,If you read the business pages, it...
- Tags: Tower Records
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Tower Records files for Chapter 11
- Tower Records files for Chapter 11Bankrupt due to piracy - Arrr mateySo they blame their bankrupcy on the rampant piracy going on in the world?It has nothing to do with an economic downturn that has left a good chunk of the population without the free spending money to waste on...
- Tags: Piracy, CD, Tower Records, Chapter 11
- Discussion threads 2004-02-09
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- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money
- The Recording Industry Association of America won a big one yesterday - a $1.92 million judgment against a woman charged with copyright infringement. But you won't hear champagne bottles popping open in Hollywood. Is anyone really a winner here? Does the RIAA expect to see a single...
- Tags: Judgment, RIAA, Internet, Productivity, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Apple to launch 'variable-pricing' for iTunes
- Apple to launch 'variable-pricing' for iTunesThanks for the reminderI am sure a lot of customers forgot Apple announce this in the beginning of January. It was presumably part of the deal for getting the other studios to allow Apple to sell DRM free songs.It is obviouslly the confortable position that...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., record company, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Dell gets a jump on Black Friday, a $389 desktop with 20-inch LCD
- Dell is getting an early start on Black Friday. The company has been running daily specials at www.dell.com/everyday for some time, and there have been some good deals on consumer desktop and laptops. But some of the best deals are currently hiding under the umbrella of "Small and Medium Business"...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., LCD, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Semiconductors, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Judge: Probable cause required for location info
- Judge: Probable cause required for location infoPrivacy Not an IssueSince the government wants information from a third party, not the individual, there is no right to privacy. Right to privacy has been over extended already to include public areas where there is not expectation to privacy, and should be...
- Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, Right-to-privacy, privacy, Probable Cause, location info
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD
- Six months ago, after years of waiting, I finally had a chance to switch my Media Center setup over to a fully digital, cable-compatible, high-definition configuration. How has it worked out? Let's just say you'd have to pry the Media Center remote from my cold dead fingers. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Dell Computer Corp., Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, CableCard, Media Center PCs, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Happy New Year - and a few tech resolutions
- Happy New Year - and a few tech resolutionsResolutions?I thought resolutions were supposed to be challenging...At least they shouldn't all be fun ones. lolBe careful Adrian. The RIAA is now suing people who rip their legally purchased CDs.Why MP3? AAC is open, standard, smaller files, & sounds betterWhy...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, RIAA, USB 1, MP3, AAC, CD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- PhotoStickies 5.6.1 (Mac)
- PhotoStickies puts all your favorite pictures on your desktop, as stickies, floating or even borderless. Sticky pictures may reside on your computer, or on the Internet. It displays live Web cams on your desktop, updates them automatically, and even records them like a VCR. What you can do with PhotoStickies:...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, PhotoStickies, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-19
- False starts in race to future of DVDs
- False starts in race to future of DVDsStick with DVD!Both new formats want to control your every move. The want to control when and where you can watch a disc you've purchased, er, licensed (since you don't actually every own it). They want to lock a disc to...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, DVD, HD-DVD, new format
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlement
- Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlementExtension of Penalties is UnavoidableThe idea that all of attorney general Gonzales' problems and his recent resignation are related to getting Slade Gorton, long time Microsoft supporter, into the Attorney Generals office where he can further Brad Chase's goal of further corruption of the...
- Tags: IT Still, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Lawgarithms Links for 8/20/07
- Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:California court invalidates Alienware arbitration provision in online terms and conditions, from Internet Cases by Evan Brown"Among other things,...
- Tags: Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- In abduction of cleric, operatives leave cellphone trail leading to CIA doorstep
- In the game of cat and mouse, it's best not to leave footprints. But that's just what the CIA did in 2003 when it's effort to carry out an "extraordinary rendition" failed due to a cellular transmissions trail left by the officers, reports Wired News.Twenty-five CIA agents are facing trial...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International, Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- A precipitous drop in CD sales
- According to an article in the March 21st edition of the Wall Street Journal, sales of compact discs for the first three months of 2007 have experienced a precipitous drop of 20% versus the same period only a year ago. Need I state the obvious, but that drop has NOT...
- Tags: music, CD, sales
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Think 'Patch Tuesday' is just for Microsoft? Think again!
- Think 'Patch Tuesday' is just for Microsoft? Think again!Let see if it lasts for the non-MS systems"in 2006, IE was unsafe 78% (284/365) of the time - 27% (98/365) had known criminal use - compared to Firefox's 2% (9/365). This is an improvement for IE; in 2004, it was...
- Tags: Patches, Web browsers, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Patch Tuesday, security, patch management
- Discussion threads 2007-02-17
- Apple Corps Ltd: Beatles ready for downloading
- Apple Corps Ltd: Beatles ready for downloadingIt's a pity Apple can't compete on meritInstead, they have to sign exclusive deals with record companies in order to lock their competition out of the market and create yet more artificial barriers to entry. This convicted monopolist needs to be broken up now!...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Beatles, music, Apple Inc., record company, pity
- Discussion threads 2007-02-13
- Media tipping point? NBC slashes jobs, costs; says "it's not our fault" (it's no joke)
- The Mercs Charlie McCollum writes: How bad are things at NBC?....Well, Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show late last week that things are so bad, ``our interns are calling Mark Foley, looking for work. He also asked guest Howie Mandel, host of "Deal or No Deal, whether as...
- Tags: David Berlind, job, NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Libraries pull down the tower of knowledge
- Libraries pull down the tower of knowledgewhat has writing writing code got to do with DRMWhy do you want to keep your cash in a safe vault. Are you saying that your cash in banks, financial institutions should not be protected. I guess lets open source all banks, financial institues...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Financial services, Strategy, Pamela, open source, financial, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp., whim, knowledge
- Discussion threads 2006-05-09
- Google to feds: Back off
- Google to feds: Back offPrivacy matters when trade secrets are at riskSounds like privacy ONLY matters when trade secrets are at risk. When it comes to China, then privacy and sensorship doesn't matter.Why all the heel dragging Google?The Feds are the ones that are going to view your data,...
- Tags: Google Inc., trade secret, privacy
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
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