Commerce, Information, Security

Microsoft Attempts to Lock-Down As Much as Possible

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…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Information

Hide Your iPod, Here Comes Bill!

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…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Yahoo! Japan Releases a Free Blogging Service

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…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Information

Google To Sell Domain Names

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,…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Information

AMD’s Share of the Market Climb

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…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

ATI Beats Out Nvidia For Graphic Chip Leader

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…

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Todd Cochrane