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The CRIA, Canada's version of the RIAA, recently suffered an ignominious and embarrassing defeat when it failed to convince a Canadian federal court that online file-sharing is illegal and is "devastating" the multibillion-dollar music industry Having fallen flat on its face, the Canadian Recording Industry Association now is trying to pull itself ...
In the face of today's attacks on computer information, we should expect legislators to enact laws to protect our privacy. However, any law that fails to recognize three things -- who owns a computer, who uses it and for what purposes -- is unlikely to fit the privacy needs of both corporate and individual PC owners Think of your home computer. Its...
Shoshana Zuboff is a genius, but don't just take my word for it. Zuboff is a Harvard Business School professor who recently wrote a book called The Support Economy with her husband and collaborator, James Maxmin. What makes Zuboff a genius is that although I think the book is about CRM, there is only one paragraph specifically referring to CRM in ...
Microsoft has said it will stop making high-speed wireless networking products, phasing out a family of routers and network interface cards less than two years after it entered the booming WiFi market. Jennifer Hakes, a spokesperson with Microsoft's external public relations agency, said the software giant is "scaling back its presence" in the cat...
In the United Kingdom today, HP unveiled a new round of desktop PCs, offering customers a choice between Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Microsoft Windows XP as default operating systems The company described the new HP Compaq Business Desktop dx2000 as a simple, inexpensive business computer designed to meet the "basic computing requirements of price-sensi...
Sony announced today details from the presentation given this morning by Kaz Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Hirai's presentation highlighted the company's announcements and focused in particular on new dimensions of the PlayStation business. He provide...
New research once again confirms that Linux and open-source acquisition costs are a "fraction" of the cost of comparable proprietary options -- but the research adds a new caveat, noting that costs will be driven lower in the coming years. Today, savings from Linux are often "offset by high integration, maintenance and support costs," a new survey...
A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be more careful, not quelled by the arrests, according to security experts. The biggest arrest came last Friday when Microsoft announced it had worked thr...
Following its official announcement of three new mobile semiconductors manufactured with a more efficient, 90-nanometer process, Intel's plans for more mobile chips were unofficially forecast through a mistaken posting of information by Dell The Dell Web site indicated that in addition to the three new Pentium M processors introduced by Intel this ...
About 7,500 C-level and senior executives from mid-size to large companies are gathering this week to attend SAP's annual Sapphire conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year's event will feature a New Orleans-style Motown concert starring the Funk Brothers, Chaka Khan, Joan Osborne, Aaron Neville and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard In a mo...
Gateway has filed suit against rival Hewlett-Packard, broadening a patent dispute that first arose nearly two months ago In the claim, the company alleges HP violated five separate patents held by Gateway and related to computer manufacturing. The patents Gateway claims were violated deal primarily with hardware that enables multimedia functions, s...
As video-game makers from around the world gather at the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo -- known in the industry as E3 -- in Los Angeles this week, handheld hardware is expected to garner much of the buzz emanating from the show "There'll be a lot of looking at the handheld market this year, with both Sony and Nintendo having new product...
What is the safest advice an intellectual property attorney can give clients concerned about potential litigation? "Do absolutely nothing." The truth is that making or selling any products might get you sued for patent infringement. Advertising might get you sued for trademark infringement. And don't connect your computers to the Internet, because...
Tokyo-based VA Linux Systems last week launched a collaborative development project with NTT Data to develop a crash-analysis tool for Linux. According to the companies, this tool will provide crash-related data and crash analysis for IT departments. The project aims to have the tool in circulation by the first quarter of next year.
Developers this week have released the new Linux Kernel 2.6.6 -- a development that observers and participants in the open-source process are calling good news The story about the new kernel first emerged this morning on an Internet bulletin board, where bare details about the software were posted, including the fact that it is a patch for version ...
IBM has outlined a new Lotus Workplace software environment aimed at joining Web and traditional PC computing to enable more efficient building, deployment and management of applications and data. Big Blue said its new environment and software products such as Lotus Workplace Messaging and Workplace Documents will give users a new way to develop, ...
Small businesses are the true success stories of the Internet revolution, and further attempts to level broad taxes on Web sales and access would harm the ability of entrepreneurs to compete, according to eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman used a high-profile speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to urge lawmakers to steer clear of...
While it will be some time before Linux is really much of a threat to Microsoft's installed base or Microsoft to Linux's, the battle for the consumer and corporate desktop was actually joined some time ago. Both sides are working furiously to derail the other With both the WinHEC and TechEd conferences this month covering Longhorn, the next version...
AMD is pushing its Athlon 64 processor further into the mobile-computing world with new models designed to provide low-power performance in the thin and light notebook market The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced its Athlon 64 2800+ and 2700+, immediately available worldwide, offering 32-bit computing and seamless transition to 64-bit...
Novell this week released the first public beta version of its Mono 1.0 software -- the company's planned alternative to Microsoft's .NET platform Novell took over the Mono project when it acquired open-source software vendor Ximian in August 2003, and the issues inherent in the merger were said to contribute to the delay in the release of the soft...
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