DVD Disc Sales Value Slows, But New Technologies Will Spur International Growth

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2005 6:08 PM EST (-)

A variety of new content delivery options for the home are creating tumultuous times for the movie industry

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Jakob Nielsen says Ajax Sucks Most of the Time

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2005 2:13 PM EST (usabilityviews.com)

Jakob Nielsen weighs in on Ajax, and says, "Just say no to Ajax!" From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 2005.

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New Sony CD security risk found

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2005 11:49 AM EST (CNET)

More problems with Sony's copy protection. I know I won't be buying any Sony disks for Christmas!

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Adobe Macromedia looks to trim workforce

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2005 8:21 PM EST (Macworld)

From Macworld UK - looks like some job loss will occur as Adobe and Macromedia become one.

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Letter to Governor Romney of Massachusetts about Support of ODF in the IBM Workplace Managed Client

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2005 5:38 PM EST (-)

Today, IBM extended its support for open standards by announcing a new software product designed to fully support the OASIS OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF).

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Hidden Feature in Sony DRM Uses Open Source Code to Add Apple DRM

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2005 10:14 PM EST (-)

An interesting article from the Freedom to Tinker blog about how Sony's XCP DRM code contains code from another program designed to break Apple's DRM.

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The tech inside Cirque's big tent

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2005 12:46 PM EST (CNET)

I've always been a big fan of Cirque du Soleil and I'm excited to hear about this new show, Corteo. This is a really interesting article about all the high-tech stuff they do to make sure everything works smoothly during the show.

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Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2005 7:28 PM EST (gollum.easycp.de)

This is a pretty cool little app - an interface to the Wikipedia that simplifies the interface considerably. It's based at the gollum website, which presumably goes and grabs content based on your search term and strips out the important bits for the customized wikipedia browser.

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AJAX spurs Web rebirth for desktop apps

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2005 1:12 PM EST (CNET)

I'm always somewhat confused by articles like this. Ajax is the term-du-jour, and it's being used by the suits to get attention for what would otherwise be simply client-server applications that happen to use a web interface. Sure, Ajax let's us build snazzier interfaces on traditional web apps, but that's really about it.

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Internet ad growth pressures TV to change

Seeded on Fri Dec 2, 2005 8:45 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

"The TV commercial over time will become more of a way to simply send people to your Web site." Isn't that an interesting reversal from a few years ago when TV execs saw the internet as a way to drive people to their TV shows? 2005 is the "year of VOD" and TV's going to have to figure out what that means and learn to deal with it.

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Altoids is cool

Fri Dec 2, 2005 7:09 PM EST

I ran across this article about Altoids today on Cnet.com. It's about how Altoids ran a contest to see who come up with the most interesting thing to do with an Altoids tin.

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TiVo tunes into online services

Seeded on Fri Dec 2, 2005 5:43 PM EST (CNET)

We used to think that our computers would become our entertainment centers, but it's the other way around. Our entertainment centers (set top boxes) are becoming computers!

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