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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 11 August 2006 |
The involvement of the US Department of Homeland Security with regard to a newly announced critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows is a wake up call. The serious nature of cyber attacks on the operating system sitting on most of the world's desktops has reached the level where it is now a matter of national and international concern.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
It was supposed to be a service to help the online research community learn more about how people search for information on the web. Instead in what must be described as one of the most publicly embarrassing security breaches in recent memory, Time Warner owned ISP AOL has potentially compromised the privacy of 658,000 of its members.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
It wasn't going to be much of a change. However, in this new era where Microsoft is actually trying to listen to what users want, the world's largest software company has decided that its new browser Internet Explorer 7 does not need a distinguishing plus sign after all.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 06 August 2006 |
The agreement between Google and Associated Press (AP) in which the search leader and online news aggregator will pay AP for its content has raised eyebrows in many quarters. Yet it is undeniable that the deal makes sense because of the unique way organisations like AP sell their product.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
Apple wants the right to restrict the music it sells through its online store iTunes to its music players the iPods. Norway, Sweden and Denmark want to force Apple to allow the music it sells to play on rival players. This has become a case of regulatory zealots misunderstanding the concept of free enterprise.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
A reader pointed me to a blog on a competitor's site which discussed the restrictions imposed by Verizon Wireless' use of Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management (WM-DRM) technology in its new LG Chocolate phone.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
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You know you really have to start worrying about the well-being of a company when it openly holds up competitors as pinnacles of excellence.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
In its best marketing style, Microsoft has kept people guessing about its so-called "iPod killer" Zune, leaking bits of information at a time. One thing is clear. If Microsoft is to have any chance of success greater than zero pitting Zune against iPod, it needs its own online music store. The question on everyone's lips is does it have one in the pipeline?
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
There has been a lot written about the consequences and significance of AMD’s US$5.4 billion acquisition of specialist chip and chipset manufacturer ATI. Speculation that AMD will now be able to challenge Intel, however, is off the mark.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
Dont miss: Microsoft won't see Zune zoom up the charts
You have to hand it to Microsoft. The company knows how to create a buzz about a product. From all the noise about Zune, you would think the “iPod killer” actually has a chance. Sadly for Microsoft, it won’t happen.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 22 July 2006 |
Coming from a base of zero against a 80% market share holder such as iPod was always going to be a monumental task. Microsoft's strategy of pitting like against like will make it an impossible one.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
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I used to think that there was no one more passionate about their high-tech toys than Apple Mac users or Linux geeks. I may be wrong. Judging from the number of irate emails I received in response to an article concerning Blu-ray and HD DVD, I would say video player buffs get the gong for being the most frenzied lot right now.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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Editor's Note: (The following article contains errors for which we apologize to reviewer Joshua Zyber. We mistakenly attributed two quotes from a review at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22593 to another source. Mr Zyber is the source of the quotes and not a Microsoft employee or blogger as originally stated.)
From the day that Japanese electronics giants Toshiba and Sony parted ways failing to come to an agreement on unifying the Blu-ray and HD DVD high definition video technologies, we have witnessed a PR war not seen since the days of Betamax and VHS or Macintosh and PCs. The fact that right now most of what we're hearing from both camps is FUD about the opposition, indicates that both sides are not entirely sure where they stand.
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