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ZDNet Blogs - Jan 4, 2008
Okay, I should have known better. Despite a couple of years of promising myself that I wouldn't buy a hi-def DVD player until the ridiculous format war was over, I broke down in December. In part, I really wanted to …
ZDNet Blogs - Jan 4, 2008
No sooner had the electronic "ink" dried on Chris Dawson's piece (OLPC and Intel part ways) that Intel confirmed that the Classmate lives on with a next generation already in the works! Well surprise, surprise! Ever …
ZDNet Blogs - Jan 4, 2008
Google's Dan Morrill has officially pressed the big red button -- the Android development contest is now underway. As we found out a while back, there is $30 million in prizes to be had. Unfortunately (or fortunately …
ZDNet Blogs - Jan 4, 2008
Digg and several other companies have been sued for patent infringement in Marshall Texas by Beneficial Innovations (i.e., Sheldon Goldberg). There have actually been two lawsuits. In the first one, filed in June and …
All about Microsoft - Jan 4, 2008
Microsoft is making available in the U.S. and Canada a volume-license subscription plan aimed at small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). The new offering, Open Value Subscription License, is going live on March 3.
Tagged: channel, resellers, corporate strategy, systems integrators
The Apple Core - Jan 4, 2008
Nothing appears to bring out the snarky comments and questionable legal actions than success in the technology markets. Apple's winning combination of the iPod and the iTunes Music Store seems guaranteed to keep the …
Tagged: windows, ipod, aapl, itunes, itunes store
IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband - Jan 4, 2008
When I first became aware of that clueless December 30 Washington Post article in which Mark Fisher erroneously claimed the RIAA was maintaining that ripping CDs was illegal, wanna know what I thought to myself? Well …
Tagged: regulatory, predictions and observations
Zero Day - Jan 4, 2008
One of the biggest problems with wireless LAN security standards is the lack of an intermediate solution. Your only choices in securing a wireless LAN were to deploy enterprise grade WPA wireless LAN security which …
Tagged: wireless, hackers, wi fi security
News items | ZDNet - Jan 4, 2008
Move seen by some as an end to the format war; Toshiba, maker of the rival HD DVD technology, vows to fight on. Time Warner's Warner Bros. studio on Friday said it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in …
Tagged: dvd, digital media, hd dvd, consumer electronics, sales, home entertainment, blu ray, personal technology, reuters, time warner inc, sales strategy, toshiba corp, viacom inc, warner bros entertainment inc
The Social Web - Jan 4, 2008
When Robert Scoble scraped contact data from Facebook for import into rival social network Plaxo Pulse, he inadvertently raised more questions around the need for data portability than provided answers.
Tagged: social networks, facebook