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Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policy

Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policyAdd a copyright statement to videos.Perhaps Viacom and other content providers should add a couple of bytes to each frame to indicate that a particular video is copyrighted and thus allow a service such as YouTube could then block the upload....

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Corporate communications, video, YouTube Inc., User Submissions, Viacom Inc., Web site

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

Web 2.0: Who controls the 'conversations'?

John Battelle dives into his promised Part II of “Packaged Goods Media PGM v. Conversational Media CM” pointing to my analysis of his Part I: “Web 2.0: Who needs business models?” In stark contrast with Battelle’s pronouncements, I put forth that “Digital media is not in inexorable conflict with...

Tags: Web site development, Intellectual property, Web, YouTube Inc., User Submissions, media, Battelle, YouTube Website, Web site, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-18

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Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...

Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

BlueAnt V1

We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...

Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod

Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2008-09-05

MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising

MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertisingAnd the average userIs left where? Generally, bewildered. Even the original story is at the limits of her/his understanding because of the use of insider terms. "Portal" is mysterious to some people. Got a cure-all for the simpletons?--GlennP.S. I'm...

Tags: Portals, MSN Norway, MSN

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope

Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...

Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...

Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?

Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?Rich Internet ApplicationOne issue to be considered is people like me who for security reasons, and to avoid distracting material, is to disable popups, Flash and Javascript. I run two browsers. The default which is called by email links is Safari with RIA switched...

Tags: rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google

News items 2008-09-05

Video: Google Apps adoption rates up

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun's OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Video, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Vista Audio Changer (zip)

A system tray application which allows the user to switch their Default Audio Output Device at the click of a mouse - extremely useful for users with multiple sound cards, or multiple outputs on a single sound card. Version 1.01b has added Hotkey support and Device Ordering for computers which...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Audio Card, System Tray, RSoft

Software downloads 2008-09-05

DesktopZip (exe)

DesktopZip 2008 is a fast, simple ZIP archiver and dearchiver which uses most popular ZIP format. DesktopZip is intuitive user interface is extremely easy to use, while its wide ranging support for most file compression formats and comprehensive feature set makes DesktopZip the only archive utility you will ever need....

Tags: Compression, DesktopZip, DesktopZip 2008

Software downloads 2008-09-05

V2-Folder-Security (msi)

Windows XP free trial folder lock-unlock software can easily secure your files, folders, and documents from others. You can apply password on folder to protect data while locking. PC security program hide for search and encrypt folders files. Simply right click on the folder to lock it. Download computer data...

Tags: Folder, Folder Lock Software, PC Security Tool, Disaster Recovery, Productivity, Backups, Microsoft Windows XP, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Security, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-09-05