CNET - Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube’s sensitive user data as a result of the copyright-infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.
Jul3
Blogger Opinion: Why We Left NetSuite (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
Filed In: Internet
Jul3
EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing (AP)
AP - The Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.
Filed In: Digital Music
Jul3
Nokia and Telenor sign Internet services deal (Reuters)
Reuters - The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Thursday it had signed a cooperation agreement with
Norwegian telcom group Telenor for its “Ovi” Internet services
platform.
Filed In: Cell Phones
Jul3
Spain says mobile operators colluded on price (Reuters)
Reuters - Three mobile phone operators in Spain
fixed tariffs in March 2007 to compensate for a new law banning
rounding up call periods, Spain’s Competition Commission said
on Thursday, citing initial findings of an investigation.
Filed In: Cell Phones
Jul3
Google Keeps Code but Viacom Gets YouTube User Data (PC World)
PC World - YouTube must hand Viacom a database listing who watched the videos it hosts, although it need not reveal the code for its…
Filed In: Internet
Jul3
Cumulus fixes Backup Manager issue (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Canto on Thursday announced the release of Cumulus 7.5.4, an update to its Digital Asset Management (DAM) software. This is the last planned update to 7.5, according to Canto.
Filed In: Apple/Mac
Jul3
Netcom details iPhone 3G plans in Norway (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Norway is known for many things: Norse gods, the work of Henrik Ibsen, and a second place spot on the United Nations’s Human Development Index (unseated just this past year from the top spot by rival Iceland).
Filed In: Apple/Mac
Jul3
New British ad campaign targets downloaders (Reuters)
Reuters - A grubby man in the pub named
Nigel who buys counterfeit DVDs is being replaced by a sheepish
young office worker named Nigel who downloads movies and music
illegally at his desk in a new British ad campaign against
piracy.
Filed In: Digital Music
Jul2
Microsoft: Silverlight content is searchable, too
When Adobe, Google and Yahoo announced earlier this week that content stored in its Flash file format would be more easily indexable by Google’s and Yahoo’s search engines, Microsoft was nowhere to be found. It took a while, but I got Microsoft to explain how/why Silverlight already is indexable….
Filed In: Microsoft
Jul2
Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses
After pulling its “Sandcastle” documentation compiler from its CodePlex repository site for failure to comply with Open Source Initiative terms and conditions, Microsoft is ready to try releasing “Sandcastle” again under one of its OSI-approved licenses.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jul1
Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search
The rumors accumulating over the past few months were true: Microsoft has purchased natural-language search vendor Powerset for an undisclosed amount.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun27
Fiji government official tells Microsoft: ‘Fiji’ is not for sale
If you thought it was tough before to get Microsoft to talk about “Fiji,” the next version of Windows Media Center Edition, now it’s going to be next-to-impossible to get anyone in Redmond to utter the “F” word.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun27
Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
Might a Gates-less Microsoft be rethinking whether a more decentralized Microsoft might be better able to fend off its growing list of competitors?
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun25
Yahoo silent on latest rumors of renewed Microsoft talks
In its June 25 letter to stockholders, Yahoo Board Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang had nothing to say about the supposed renewal this week of talks with Microsoft.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun25
Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software — and a one-time member of Microsoft’s Excel team back in the early 1990s (Microsoft’s “glory days”) — has a really great look back at the significance of the famed “BillG” reviews.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun25
Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll
Microsoft is expected to announce on June 26 that its Hyper-V hypervisor technology has been released to manufacturing, according to testers claiming familiarity with the company’s plans.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun24
Testers give Microsoft’s Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
A number of testers who’ve been dabbing with the first version of Microsoft’s ADO.Net Entity Framework are unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken with the technology — so much so that they’ve created a “no confidence vote” petition to make their gripes public.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun23
How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates’ shoes?
In a new video interview posted to Microsoft’s Channel 9 Web site on June 23, Chairman Bill Gates adds a third group of folks to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. Gates told Channel 9’s Charles Torres that Microsoft’s group of Technical Fellows also will be helping to fill the technology-leadership void that his departure will create.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun20
Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertising
Microsoft may not be willing to let Apple have the last word about Windows Vista, after all. According to a June 20 Fortune Magazine article, Microsoft has earmarked “an additional $200 million for Windows advertising this year, even though in nonlaunch years thre is typically no budget increase at all.”
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun20
Windows Mobile 7 phones coming in Q1 2009?
Windows Mobile 7 may be closer than many think.
According to a report from at least one major handset maker, Microsoft is planning to make available the final bits of its next mobile operating-system release in time for them to start selling Windows Mobile 7 phones in the first quarter of 2009. If true, that would […]
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun18
Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?
It’s been over a year since Microsoft announced its dynamic language runtime (DLR), a software layer on top of .Net that allows dynamic languages, like Ruby and Python, to integrate more tightly with Microsoft’s core set of developer class libraries.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun18
China: A potential, new antitrust battleground for Microsoft
Joining the U.S., the European Union, Japan and other sundry antitrust investigators who have set their sites on Microsoft, China is now looking into whether Microsoft is abusing its monopoly power.
Filed In: Microsoft
Jun18
‘Sensing’ more about what’s coming in Windows 7
One potential new Windows 7 feature about which I haven’t seen a whole lot of speculation is something called “Windows Sensors.”
Filed In: Microsoft
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