witness

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delay

Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delayThere is no reason why this woman should not have counselAnd unless this woman fired her OWN lawyer without notice to the court that she was having problems with him or evidence she was having problems with him, no judge would DARE keep...

Tags: Jammie Thomas, new counsel, counsel, litigation, witness, RIAA, income

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Police Blotter: Can a cell phone camera intimidate a witness?

Police Blotter: Can a cell phone camera intimidate a witness?NoThe issue was the implication of threating actions. It didn't matter if it was a cop or an average citizen. The issue was the implied threat. The witness' position as an undercover cop was not the point.RE: Police...

Tags: camera, witness, cell phone camera, Police Blotter, cell phone

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

The Confessions of St. Augustine 1.0 (Mobile)

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of ZealeThe Confessions of St. Augustineby Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint Excerpt:Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy...

Tags: Mobile, Particle, Witness, Blackberrybooks, Handhelds, E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Hardware, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-09-16

The Confessions of St. Augustine (Mobile)

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of ZealeThe Confessions of St. Augustineby Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint Excerpt:Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy...

Tags: Mobile, Particle, Witness, Blackberrybooks, Handhelds, E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Hardware, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-08-14

On bearing witness

It's a tragic, uncomfortable site, and while I'm glad I visited, I can't say I'd recommend it to my friends. Peter Gabriel's WITNESS organization provides video cameras and training and support to native people in a position to see and record human rights violations or their aftermath. It was founded...

Tags: Camera phones, video camera, video, camera

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Police blotter: Net pharmacy conviction overturned

Police blotter: Net pharmacy conviction overturnedWhat's the problem?I don't see the problem. The witnesses testified via a "live, two-way video conference". In what way were the accused not able to "be confronted with the witnesses" against them?The judges in this case apparently have too narrow a definition of...

Tags: INTERNET, Attorneys-General, witness, pharmacy conviction

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

Additional Resources

Kindle for PC application revealed at Windows 7 launch

Hallelujah!Just what the doctor ordered.I'm still waiting to hear if B&N can erase your booksThe fact that Amazon can still erase books you have purchased has killed any chance I'll ever buy a Kindle. If I buy a book, it should be mine. DRM is going to be the death...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Launch, Microsoft Windows 7, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers

Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Could you green the world brick by brick?

It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...

Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

MyFoxHurricane for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

MyFoxHurricane for iPhone gives access to the latest news on hurricanes for the 2009 hurricane season, straight to your iPhone from the experts at the National Hurricane Center and MyFoxHurricane.com. View the most up-to-date conditions and breaking news with exclusive MyFox Hurricane video reports and video briefings from hurricane specialists...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Hurricane, Video, Weather Decision Technologies, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-14

IsoBuster 2.6 (Windows)

IsoBuster is an excellent and low cost utility to do data recovery from CD, DVD, BD, and HD DVD. All File-Systems are supported. Supports an enormous range of image files as well. Scanning for lost files and folders, CD, DVD, BD, and HD DVD Surface scan. Find lost data on...

Tags: CD, HD-DVD, Microsoft Windows, Smart Projects, IsoBuster, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-10

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...

Tags: Supercomputer, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Supercomputing, GPU, Fermi, Oak Ridge, CNET News, JMP Securities Alex Gauna, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government

Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...

Tags: Government, Corporate governance, INTERNET, Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Apple declares its environmental credentials

Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...

Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

If open source were a monopoly

As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...

Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance

Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...

Tags: Pay-to-play

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Rocky dreams

Sounds reasonableRock development was so far along, I believe it was down to the fab yields for the go/no-go decision. But Sun has always prided itself on having production products ready when they show it off publicly. This always avoided the obvious "vaporware" negative publicity. So if Sun does what...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, fab, right-wing

Discussion threads 2009-09-19

Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over

Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...

Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-09-17