Betamax long lost may effect Music file sharing!
Fortune magazine has a great article that goes to great length talking about the Betamax precedent that the RIAA wants overturned. [Fortune]
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Technical
Do you need a petabyte of storage
Can you imagine a petabyte of storage.. I never thought I would need a terabyte but that turned out to be wrong. It may a long time before the average geek needs a petabyte of storage. But there are some companies out there that probably do seems IBM has something cooking code named the "Storage Tank" [Wired]
Really Strong PalmOS Security
Tranzoa has released an updated version of it's security application for PalmOS: OnlyMe. The new version works with PalmOS version 5 and all previous versions of the simple-to-use operating system.
uLocate a Cell phone that track’s your Kids “Disgusting”
When I was a teenager my father impaired some very straight forward rules and if I broke those rules there was hell to pay. But I just wonder how far some anal retentive parents are going to go with this new product. It's a cell phone with a GPS that tracks your kids so that mom and dad can track
Transfer home movies to DVD the easy way!
As most people do I have stacks of VHS, HI8 and now digital video recordings that I would like to transfer to DVD to clean up my entertainment area. Well seems the consumer electronics industry has been thinking about the same thing. Does anyone really want to use there computer to transfer these older video's? Sure if you want to
Microsoft Sued Over Security Flaws
Marcy Levitas Hamilton, a media corporation CEO, has filed suit and is seeking to class action status for her complaint against Microsoft. Hamilton says that the software giant is responsible for a cracker's being able to steal her Social Security number's using a flaw in Microsoft's software.
Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System
Thanks go out to Steve for sending me this link. Being I am observing a self imposed boycott of full length music albums I have not run across any CD's that have this type of Media protection. But you can bet that if I do in the future that I will be re-reading the linked article to make a fair