Today I was knee deep in meetings and documentation – neither of which is a joy to partake in but must be done in order to get to the fun coding stuff. While coining my Machiavellian masterpiece of documentation I tried to source some rather funky images from a co-worker; a presentation that they had…
I have given up on the pursuit of unattainable web pages and instead have just started to research/investigate the various aspects of DRM with respect to the sharing of video content. Naturally the first stop for such things would be MPEG-21 and possibly the Open Mobile Alliance who have their own DRM solution currently on…
Yahoo and eBay have just announced that they are going to collaborate on several initiatives in the near future. Expect to see plenty of eBay links in Yahoo! search results and so forth. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on Yahoo usage. Hopefully the indexing will be conducted in a sensible…
Today I just happened upon Google Pack – a bundle of wonderful, free utilities and applications. The Google Pack installer helps you to keep track of all these applications, makes sure you have the most up-to-date versions and everything else. Not sure how out of date I am with this post as I have been…
A couple of days ago I was looking to purchase a new mobile phone and as I am currently a customer of O2 in Ireland I went to their website to pick out my new handset. However, when I got there the cupboard was certainly bare. The website was down for maintenance for a period…
Just listening to an excellent podcast by Cory Doctorow from the Electronic Frontier Foundation He talks about DRM and what its impact is on the world and exactly what it means to everyone and the market for digital content. It’s not a copyright mechanism but something far uglier.
I’m all for web-based technology, in fact I’m a firm believer that many desktop clients should be web-fronted instead of heavy GUI code, especially in small businesses. However, all these applications appearing lately, enabled by Ajax are begging the question of “how far is too far?”. This latest application that I have come across is…
Heard about this yesterday and even though I knew it was only a matter of time, I still found it hard to grasp. It would appear that Apple have embraced the attempts by others to get Windows XP running on the Intel version of their hardware and have launched their own official BIOS enabler to…
Information on the web may not always be what it seems. Is there a secret war in cyberspace? source: BBC NEWS
It would appear that the latest drop of Sony DRM software for protecting their CDs from being copied on PCs is being likened to a “root kit” by some out there. The curiously entitled “essential system tools” have been deemed to have caused great difficulty to anyone wishing to play CDs in their PC or…