Microsoft Corp. has finally released versions of its Windows operating system optimized for 64-bit microprocessors. It will run on Intel and AMD chips that are designed for (among other things) heavy-duty graphics and video. The new products, Windows XP Professional x64 and Windows Server 2003 x64, will cost the ...
Google Gets Gross (Impressions)
on 4.25.05
There's a pretty comprehensive article in today's New York Times about Google's new Gross Impression advertising model. The concept is a radical departure from the company's search model. The brand marketing test, which will allow advertisers to choose where their ads will run, is supposed to be limited to ...
Justice For Grokster
on 4.4.05
According to people who are in the know, the Supreme Court may be thinking about sending the Grokster case back a lower court as opposed to rendering a decision on the legality of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in general. If that occurs, Grokster's business model will go on trial instead of the much larger issue of illegal ...
What’s a hit worth?
on 3.21.05
Jerry Romano sent me a short news clipping, "19 Entertainment owns the format rights to Pop Idol, here known as American Idol, and pulls in an estimated $1 billion annually in merchandising, ad sales, sponsorships, etc." along with a simple personal message,"WOW!" What is more remarkable: the fact that American Idol is ...
TiVo’s 8-K … Comcast R Us
on 3.16.05
The text of TiVo's 8-K filing: On March 15, 2005, we entered into a non-exclusive licensing and marketing agreement with Comcast STB Software DVR, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, and Comcast Corporation, as guarantor of Comcast STB’s obligations under the agreement. Pursuant to our ...
MusiKube’s Mobile Music Search
on 3.10.05
There are many interesting approaches to digital rights management (DRM). Almost all of them require the use of a technology to identify a piece of intellectual property (IP) and another piece of technology to recognize its identity. There are several ways to do this if you have the luxury of encoding the original ...
Watchout for Sony … they’re gonna get it right!
on 3.8.05
One of my favorite PowerPoint slides shows a picture of an iPod with a simple question under it: "Why is the number one personal music device made by a computer company?" Up to now, the answer was pretty simple -- the electronics and intellectual property sides of Sony simply couldn't get it together. While they were ...
A Fight Over The Broadcast Flag
on 2.28.05
From the AP: WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals panel challenged new federal rules requiring certain video devices to have technology to prevent copying digital television programs and distributing them over the Internet. U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the Federal Communications Commission it "crossed the ...
Halo Goes To Hollywood – Microsoft Style
on 2.7.05
This article by Seattle Times technology writer, Kim Peterson, tells you some of the facts about Halo 2 and Microsoft's unusual plans to make it into a movie. This is an interesting twist on the concept of line extension. Most video games that have tried to cross over into linear story telling have enjoyed less than ...
IBM open sources 500 patents
on 1.14.05
This item has appeared all over the news in the last few days. It is a pretty interesting play: IBM says it is providing free access to the information in 500 company patents to individuals and groups working on open source software. The company said it believes this is the largest pledge of patents of any kind ...
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