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Between the Lines

The many faces and challenges of Microsoft's DRM strategy   ComputerWorld's Matt McKenzie has published a story that's probably the most comprehensive look (and report card) covering Microsoft's various digital rights management (DRM) nitiatives. I ...more   1 comment

• TechNet Summit: Going for green tech
• TechNet Summit: Gates on Google, iPod, Zune, bubbles and the future
• Salesforce.com subscribers eclipse 500,000 mark 1 comment

All About Microsoft

For Microsoft, 'interoperability' is easier by committee   As evidenced by the formation of a number of recent “technology partnerships” – and, just this week, a brand-new “Interoperability Alliance” that fails to include ...more   4 comments

• Microsoft PowerShell isn't Vista-ready, either 4 comments
• It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista 28 comments
• Windows Live Messenger and Windows Vista: Worse together 5 comments

Real World IT

Critical flaw in D-Link wireless USB adapter   First it was Intel, then Apple, and then Broadcom.  The wireless flaws just keep coming and D-Link is the next culprit with a critical ...more   1 comment

• What if Jim Allchin is right about no AV on Vista? 116 comments
• The truth about the IPv6 transition 84 comments
• Critical Broadcom Windows driver exploit released! 87 comments

Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

Vista Mailbag: How does the performance rating work?   I've been getting great questions about Windows Vista via e-mail lately and thought I would answer a few of them here. If I keep getting ...more   1 comment

• Vista Mythbusters #8: That license isn't so bad, after all 100 comments
• Will Windows Vista be worth the wait? 153 comments
• Microsoft and Novell in Windows-Linux deal? 24 comments

Web 2.0 Explorer

Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad   At the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, 13 web startups have 5 minutes each to present their wares. Here are some quick impressionistic views of ...more   

• Behind the scenes: Google played hardball in YouTube deal 16 comments
• Web 2.0 Security Scares 9 comments
• YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever! 4 comments

Open Source

Value of Microsoft's patent pledge is questioned   Bradley Kuhn, now CTO at Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Center, has looked at Microsoft's much-publicized patent pledge and called it of little value.The patent ...more   

• What about IBM, then? 11 comments
• Forking Wikipedia 6 comments
• Why gaming remains proprietary 1 comment

Threat Chaos

The DerEngel interview   Last week I caught up with DerEngel, the uber cable modem hacker, in his home in Hong Kong.  He has just published his first book, ...more   

• Good old identity theft as practiced in Chicago 7 comments
• Power outage in Europe
• Do you need a special device to do leak prevention? 3 comments

Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0   One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as ...more   2 comments

• Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges 2 comments
• Nine ideas for IT managers considering Enterprise 2.0 2 comments
• Situational Software Platforms Begin to Emerge 3 comments

IP Telephony

YouTube's lawyers should quit pickin' on TechCrunch   I've been trying to come up with thoughts relevant to YouTube's cease-and-desist letter to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. The letter, which comes via YouTube's legal counsel ...more   

• Major Vonage shareholders to SEC: stop us before we sell!
• Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0
• Hey Microsoft haters- sorry but Zune has a leg up on iPod 17 comments

Software as Services

The Web grows up   Part of the reason people get dissatisfied with terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is that we all know the Web is an unfinished ...more   1 comment

• What's next after Web 2.0? 1 comment
• Switching from outbound to inbound 4 comments
• Huge jump in SaaS adoption plans 1 comment

Dev Connection

Green: Sun may release Solaris under GPL next   Open sourcing Java got its official start back in May when Sun's new CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the new Executive Vice President of Software Rich ...more   2 comments

• Q&A; with Tim Bray
• As Stallman looks on, Sun frees Java under the GPL 4 comments
• Your turn: Ask Sun a question 5 comments

Hardware 2.0

iPhone rumors kick up a gear   According to the Commercial Times (Forbes coverage here), a Chinese-language newspaper, Apple has awarded a 12 million unit contract for the iPhone to Taiwan's Hon ...more   9 comments

• The desktop AV debate 10 comments
• PlayStation 3 may not play your PSone/PS2 games 5 comments
• Hacking the XBox 360's HD-DVD for the PC 4 comments

Digital Micro-Markets

Hollywood vs. YouTube clip culture   Metacafe CEO Arik Czerniak believes short form video is not an “extension of TV,” it is a new medium with its own unlimited creative and ...more   1 comment

• Is Google's multi-billion dollar free ride over? 6 comments
• TechCrunch vs. Google: The blogger's court
• Google to Microsoft Office: Search box trumps folders

Over the Horizon

Cool Codes   Monday of last week was one of those “convergence” days. I’m sure you know the feeling. Besides being my 29th wedding anniversary, it was the ...more   7 comments

• The end of applications? 24 comments
• Your Cards and Letters 3 comments
• The green flash 17 comments

Managing L'unix

Protected by Microsoft   From the Calgary Sun for Nov 10/06:   On Oct. 22, the computer was taken in a break-in at the northwest home of a CHR ...more   34 comments

• E-voting 10 comments
• A global avalanche 24 comments
• The PDA of my desiring 6 comments

Emerging Tech

A ring of robots to fight fires   Computer scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed a new kind of software to monitor wireless sensor networks. For example, their ...more   

• The secret of our stable vision
• Mathematical beauties
• The mystery of noisy neurons 2 comments

The Apple Core

CoolBook adjusts Core Duo voltage and frequency   Hot on the heels of my story yesterday about undervolting your Core Duo CPU to save on battery and heat comes a nifty piece of ...more   5 comments

• "Undervolting" promises to increase battery life
• Apple needs to do more with Google 1 comment
• Apple targets adult products named "Pod" 4 comments

Googling Google

Googe AJAX Search API community samples   Google just published a list of community samples for their AJAX Search API.  Currently there are only four samples listed -- but I'm sure there ...more   

• Search public calendars very soon
• Google Maps lets you "Click-to-call" 1 comment
• It takes 113 servers to run Google Calendar

Spyware Confidential

Zango, the FTC, MySpace and You Tube   This past Friday, the FTC announced a $3 million dollar settlement with Zango, formerly named 180solutions, in a lawsuit charging Zango with unfair and deceptive ...more   

• Halloween sites tricking users with malware 3 comments
• Scary malware tricks part 1 1 comment
• Edelman on 'Deceptive Door Openers' and Ask toolbars 3 comments

John Carroll

The EC, Interoperability, and GPL Java   Microsoft certainly seems to be putting a lot of effort into interoperability with other platforms. Granted, this may be somewhat akin to prisoners ...more   24 comments

• The Vista train is coming 76 comments
• Why Microsoft won't assault Linux 29 comments
• Developer hearts and minds 25 comments

The Mobile Gadgeteer

Leave the cables behind with the Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger   As a mobile enthusiast and reviewer I carry more devices than your average person when I travel and it gets to be a real pain ...more   

• Pick up a Samsung Q1 UMPC for US$750
• MobileTechRoundup show #77
• I won a T-Mobile Dash and so can you 2 comments

Rational Rants

SearchViews fires back with blanks   Last week, I criticized Search Views blog for writing something incredibly stupid involving an axe, Eric Schmidt and rumors. Kate Zimmerman, the author, responded with ...more   2 comments

• Web 3.0: What will Mike Arrington do now?
• Lost in translation: More on the crimes of Google translation 6 comments
• Google translation is coherent not 4 comments

Release 0.9

Seriosly interesting    Helen Cheng of Seriosity spoke at PC Forum last March, but she said very little about her own company  and talked mostly about her experiences as ...more   

• Trip report: Kazakhstan 2 comments
• What I really said at Office 2.0 4 comments
• Google - beyond the interview 10 comments

The Universal Desktop

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, November 15, 2006   Sorry I'm late this morning, but hopefully better late than never. I just have a few quick items A new version of ...more   

• Details on Adobe's $100,000,000 investment program
• Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
• What a free Java means for Rich Internet Applications 17 comments

Social Networks

AIM gets a social networking makeover   AOL's newly updated Instant Messenger, AIM 6.0, puts social networking at its center. Firstly, every AIM user now gets their own profile page on AIM ...more   

• A fist full of Linden dollars
• Privacy means life beyond MySpace 1 comment
• Zune: welcome to the anti-social 9 comments

Lawgarithms

In Second Life, those on 'Candid Copybot' aren't smiling   Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life.  (Go read Marty's terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing ...more   

• NBC Universal launches DotComedy
• Web 2.0 asks parents and teens, who uploads? Answer: everyone
• "The Pirate and the Suit" at Web 2.0

IT Services Insider

Indian Talent Shortage,yes. But, can they pass the test?   CMMI and Six Sigma is so offshore 1.0...  Powerhouse NASSCOM, the Indian IT software and service trade organization, announced last week the national rollout of ...more   2 comments

• The Interactive Agency: Not an Ad Agency, Not a geek squad... a Next-gen Integrator
• Rodney Dangerfield & IT Services: The Invisible Third Choice

Digital ID World

Who is an identity-based NAC vendor?   Network Access Control ("NAC") was an emerging focus at last September's Digital ID World conference. The reason for including NAC in the agenda arose from ...more   1 comment

• Will web 2.0 identity make the same mistake? 2 comments
• Understanding "identity management" 1 comment
• A tipping point?

Service Oriented

Study: the public sector 'gets' SOA, or at least 'shared services'   A reader, Tim Bertrand of HP-Mercury, begs to differ with comments from a recent article in which the VP of a major defense contractor says ...more   

• Amex sees gold in SaaS-SOA model
• Integration, light and simple, over the 'global SOA'
• It's all virtual

Enterprise Anti-matter

Microsoft The Ecosystem Player -- Love Thy Enemies or Just Co-opt Them?    Yesterday's Internation Herald Tribune has an article that highlights yet another in a continuing series of moves by Microsoft to expand its ecosystem and, in ...more   2 comments

• Microsoft's ERP "Live", Duffield's Workday, and the Future of Software as a Service
• The embrace that strangles -- Microsoft and Novell and the future of Linux 31 comments
• Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Else Tomorrow? 6 comments

Tom Foremski: IMHO

Web 2 point Uh Oh week    The Web 2.0 conference is happening this week in San Francisco. And these days, lots of startups characterize themselves as Web 2.0 companies because their ...more   1 comment

• Yahoo and Google should not endanger their Chinese users 1 comment
• Leading Silicon Valley thinker warns of problems
• The mashup metropolis of Mumbai - part III of my travels around India - 2 comments

BriefingsDirect

Oracle's growing Linux and SOA support    Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of service oriented architecture (SOA)-related news and ...more   

• Expect significant tweaks to the Microsoft-Novell Linux-use covenants 1 comment
• Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grail 3 comments
• Podcast content portals -- more like strip malls

Ask Bloggie

How and why to use Sun Ray   I've just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is ...more   7 comments

• Ageism, IT, and Jobs 20 comments
• How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray 8 comments
• Are Wi-Fi security myths good for deterrence? 2 comments