Microsoft Licenses Analog Anti-rip Technology CD copy-protection specialist Macrovision is to work with Microsoft to ensure their respective DRM and anti-rip technologies are interoperable, the two companies said this week. Sounds straightforward enough, but the deal runs deeper. Microsoft agreed…
Wired News Story Microsoft’s leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples’ ears. To the growing frustration and…
Yahoo Japan launches blog tool Yahoo Japan, owned mostly by Softbank and partly by Yahoo, on Tuesday launched a test, or “beta,” version of Yahoo Japan Blogs, a free service that lets users post blogs and up to 2GB of…
Google becomes domain name seller | The Register Last week, Internet overseeing organisation ICANN and technical arm IANA, quietly approved Google’s application and gave it ID number 895. It is now entitled to sell any .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net,…
AMD’s Processor Share Climbs (ExtremeTech) Advanced Micro Devices climbed to its best quarter in the past two years in terms of processor sales, an analyst said Monday. Analyst firm Mercury Research found that AMD’s unit share of the microprocessor market reached…
Notebook Shipments Drive ATI To Top Spot ATI Technologies outsold all other vendors of graphics chips during 2004, an analyst firm confirmed Friday. More and more IT departments are issuing their clients notebooks instead of desktop PCs, and students and…
Well my wife was sick last night and we let one of our favorite programs record to DVR. Being it was a two part series we really wanted to see the program. Sure enough near the end the DVR recording…