* Backspin: More on Sony’s rootkit * Gearhead: Fun with an online photo gallery * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin: More on Sony’s rootkit
If Sony BMG isn’t held accountable, worse assaults on consumers by not only Hollywood but any content or software publisher who pleases will quickly follow.
To read this week’s Backspin in full, please go to: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/111405backspin.html?nl
Gearhead: Fun with an online photo gallery
It was a simple enough requirement: We wanted to put photographs of our son’s football games online so parents and supporters of the team could buy prints, with the profits going into the team’s coffers.
To read this week’s Gearhead in full, please go to: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/111405gearhead.html?nl
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog:
DRM will never work
Sony’s misguided digitial rights management (DRM) solution — discussed at length in Backspin (see last week’s column “Is Sony’s CD DRM malware?” and this week’s “More on Sony’s rootkit”) is definitely not acceptable to consumers — at least to those who took part in a recent on-line poll by the antivirus firm Sophos.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3591
More Mechanical Turk
In a recent Gibbsblog posting I discussed Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a truly inspired Web-based service. In discussion with some really smart people a few observations appeared and one struck me as definitely worth repeating …
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3558
Salesforce.com thumbs nose at Microsoft
This is an internal message from Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff to his company. Benioff makes some good points but there’s also a touch of shrillness and some snide comments that aren’t exactly statesman-like. That said, its still an interesting read.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3556
Microsoft Frees Books
Microsoft, obviously more nervous than ever about the sheer marketing power wielded by Google and Amazon, has decided to fight fire with fire, or rather, books with books.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3523
Is a class-action suit too kind for Sony executives?
Are you as outraged as I am about Sony’s rootkit-like DRM system on some of its music CDs? What should we do about them?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3497
