Author: JT Smith
Wired.com story talks of digital watermarking efforts by film studios, and how these anti-copying efforts are being stymied by competing standards.
Category:
- Open Source
MPAA touts digital watermarking for DVDs
Visa and Mastercard fight online fraud
Author: JT Smith
Credit card companies are tightening their security on phone and online trasactions, according to The Register.
Category:
- Linux
Judge limits damage award in MP3.com case
Author: JT Smith
Business.com reports that MP3.com will only be forced to pay damages based on the number of “infringed” CDs, not on each song, which may result in much lower payments to record companies.
Category:
- Open Source
Sony switches suppliers for notebook graphics chip
Author: JT Smith
From News.com: “TOYKO–Sony, the maker of Vaio PCs, said today it has switched companies in its search for a steady supply of graphics chips
for a new notebook.”
for a new notebook.”
Category:
- Unix
Peek at Intel’s XScale CPU core
Author: JT Smith
linuxdevices.com looks at
“…XScale, an embedded microprocessor architecture derived from StrongARM technology.
Relative to StrongARM, XScale will boast significantly increased speed (approaching
1 GHz), substantially reduced power consumption (down to 0.0001W), and will
incorporate a number of new technologies that optimize its use in tomorrow’s mobile,
wireless, and Internet infrastructure applications.
“…XScale, an embedded microprocessor architecture derived from StrongARM technology.
Relative to StrongARM, XScale will boast significantly increased speed (approaching
1 GHz), substantially reduced power consumption (down to 0.0001W), and will
incorporate a number of new technologies that optimize its use in tomorrow’s mobile,
wireless, and Internet infrastructure applications.
Category:
- Unix
New KDE desktop Beta for Linux released
Author: JT Smith
LinuxPR release: “The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE
1.93, the fourth beta preview of Kopernicus, KDE’s next-generation, powerful, modular
desktop.
1.93, the fourth beta preview of Kopernicus, KDE’s next-generation, powerful, modular
desktop.
Category:
- Linux
Bay Area IPOs getting a real lesson in humility
Author: JT Smith
The initial public stock offering last week of the San Francisco-based PeoplePC Inc.
highlighted a disturbing trend in this summer’s IPO market: go public, fall off a cliff. From Siliconvalley.com.
highlighted a disturbing trend in this summer’s IPO market: go public, fall off a cliff. From Siliconvalley.com.
Category:
- Open Source