Judge: Can't link to Webcast if copyright owner objects
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that it is unlawful to provide a hyperlink to a Webcast if the copyright owner objects to it. — U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in the northern district of Texas g...
Gentlemen Stop Your Linking
Cases involving pro se defendants are usually quite dangerous, not only to the defendant, but also to the rest of us: plaintiffs who are represented by decent enough law firms, if before a district ju...
Kill two Windows servers with one Xserve
At its core, Xserve is a two-socket Core microarchitecture Xeon (Woodcrest) rack server. As I wrote in my review, in hardware design, Xserve lives up to market standards. Some touches, like the SAS/...
French court favors personal privacy over piracy searches
PARIS: A French court has ruled that music companies and other copyright holders cannot conduct unrestrained Internet monitoring to find pirates. — The decision, which could leave record companies o...
The new Adobe icons and branding
So many voices have expressed their thoughts on Adobe's new icons so far and one of the more noticeable one from users is that they all thought it was some temporary place holder art. When I first sa...
The Venice Project: YouTube slayer?
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis may not be household names, but the products they've created in the past, Kazaa and Skype, certainly are. The team of entrepreneurs is about to bring another product ...
Red Hat F3Q07 (Qtr End 11/30/06) Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Matthew Szulik - Chairman, President and CEO — Analysts — Terry Tillman - SunTrust Robinson-Humphrey — Presentation — Operator — Good afternoon. My name is May, and I will be...
How to kill a personality
About a month ago, Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien interviewed Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, and pulled the conversation's most memorable quote for the headline: "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. W...
What's Ed Bott missing on his CES schedule?
Ed Bott is asking what he's missing on his CES schedule. — Oh, let's see. — How about an appearance on the ScobleShow? I still have some slots left open. By the way, we're gonna be doing the "Re...
Abbey Corps
One thing that I kind of like about Rocketboom is that I have never — done any press releases. I also dont have an email list; Until now, I've always — just fielded the incoming. I'm not against...
Connexion In-Flight Replacement Figuratively Up in the Air
The Wall Street Journal reports that the efforts by Lufthansa, Panasonic Avionics, and others to have a transition plan in place for Connexion's demise are delayed: Panasonic made the surprise announc...
XBox up on downloads
Amazon digital video sales are slow — Though a box office failure, Warner Bros.' 'Poseidon' is selling well as a high-def download through Microsoft's Xbox Live. — In a topsy-turvy year for the di...
Getting Gears of War Soon? Newbies Listen Up!
If you are receiving Gears of War as a present this holiday season, the fact that other people have been playing online for a few months could be intimidating. — I wanted to give a few tips to the n...
Why Doesn't CafePress Use Flash?
There are many sites that sell customized casino chips (just do a search), but we haven't found any that have an online design tool to allow you to create the chip itself. TheChipLab has take the ext...
AllPeers Adds Chat: Becomes Relevant Again
AllPeers, a Firefox P2P file sharing plugin, had incredible hype when it launched in August (the rumors had been around for nearly a year at that point). People were calling it the "killer app" for F...
Online tops newspaper job-ad sales
Employers spent more money on Internet recruitment advertising than in newspapers in 2006, making this the first time any of the traditional newspaper categories has been surpassed by the digital medi...
Microsoft offers Vista free to CES exhibitors
Exhibitors may not want to use Vista, as the applications they are showing off in their booth may not be compatible with the new OS — Microsoft is apparently looking to get some free advertising for...