Sep 5, 2007 | Apple, audio, hardware, Microsoft, video
Apple demonstrated again today that it can run circles around everyone else with its handheld devices. There will be lots of news coverage of the updates to the iPod line – here’s one article, here’s photos, and here’s an exhaustive rundown of...
Aug 28, 2007 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law, video
The world of copyright protection is a mess, and each day brings new craziness. A Federal District Court judge granted a ruling for summary judgment against a family that had run Kazaa on a computer with copyrighted material in a shared folder – with no evidence...
Aug 21, 2007 | DRM, Google, video
An interesting collection of news about Google projects today.As the new owner of YouTube, Google will introduce scrolling advertisements to YouTube videos today. They promise the ads will be unobtrusive, nearly-transparent banners that will appear at the bottom of...
Aug 19, 2007 | DRM, video, Vista
Vista’s implementation of copyright protection for video does its job quietly and effectively. Early claims to the contrary are being debunked.Let’s be clear. Copyright-protection schemes – “DRM” – are intrusive and unforgivable....
Apr 17, 2007 | Microsoft, video, web_services
Adobe and Microsoft each announced new technology for playing back video on your computers, setting up yet another format war. As always there are appealing features promised in the technology, but make no mistake: the goal, the only goal, is to seduce us into...
Apr 10, 2007 | hardware, video
Here’s an article that describes the struggle to involve a computer in the living room, delivering photos, music and movies. The struggle is not going well. Hewlett Packard just announced that it is ending development of its Digital Entertainment Center line of...
