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There has been a lot of speculation this month about Apple TV, changes that make it more than a “Hobby” for Apple, including : re-branding it as iTV -even though that is already a British TV network called ITV. Could Continue reading Apples part of the shifting Television screen.
in the works since 2005 has SongBird has reached a major milestone with is 1.0 release!! What is it? A DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, or they “restrict your rights to digits”. ) free, non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible (plug-in services!!), open-source, Continue reading DRM free Songbird Media Player is out of the nest with R1.0!
Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act Continue reading Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
Dilbert.com >> I’m Incubating my brain out… – and it hurts – Startup Humour CSS Floats Without Text Wrap – Understanding floats is extremely important when creating CSS layouts. One of the trickiest issues when dealing with floats is stopping Continue reading Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 21st
The title of the Information Week column by Alexander Wolfe is both provocative and misleading. Microsoft has patented (U.S. Patent 7,266,697) “Stealthy audio watermarking”, which Mr Wolfe suggests could lead to “Uncrackable DRM“. However even reading the patent’s abstract (“The Continue reading Uncrackable DRM is, very likely, Neither.
The making of DRM Law; What’s next in RSS; Continue reading Code is Culture Recent Links for July 13th: DRM Law & What’s next in RSS