Not everybody on the panel agreed. Rajan Samtani, director of business development at Digimarc Corp., a company that provides watermarking technology, said he worked for ContentGuard, a company that tries to help find less obtrusive ways to implement DRM.
The RIAA's David Hughes sits next to former IFPI CEO Nic Garnett. To Garnett’s right is [...]
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RIAA DRM not dead and likely will make comeback
Obama committed to green energy, auto bailout
“It means investing $150 billion to build an American green-energy economy that will create 5 million new jobs while freeing our nation from the tyranny of foreign oil and saving our planet for our children,” Obama said.
Kroft: Why?
So my hope is that over the course of the next week, between the White House and [...]
Amazon.com removes, reinstates reviews for ‘Spore’
By 2:10 p.m. PDT, the reviews were back up on the site.
Although the actual reviews were removed, Amazon did leave up a discussion thread on the Spore page. And during the period while the reviews were down, some users angrily employed the thread to paste in reviews that had originally been left for the game.
Users [...]
SmugMug goes after prosumer photags with SmugVault
As the name would suggest it’s all about storage, but not just for the standard slew of files you’ll see supported on sites like Flickr or Google’s Picasa. Instead, SmugVault is all about the files professional or advanced users end up with, like the RAW and TIFF files from high-end digital SLRs, and the PDF [...]
Use SEO to optimize your recession
Along with a reduction of spending and a re-prioritization on necessities, businesses and individuals alike will more likely become more selective in the purchases that they make. Depending on the specific needs, they may look for the best deals or a certain level of quality, and in either case, may take longer to make a [...]
VCs pin hopes on green-tech ‘exits’
KPMG is expected on Tuesday to publish results of a survey of almost 300 investors and entrepreneurs. Almost 80 percent thought that IPO activity would start to turn around in 2010 and continue in the following years.
Successful IPOs are crucial to the burgeoning green-technology investment sector, which has seen a sharp increase in venture [...]
Shopping with Google Android Which app is best
Of the three, ShopSavvy has the best-looking interface that lets you easily scan barcodes with the camera or enter them by hand if the barcode is smudged. Like CompareEverywhere, you can add products to a wish list and read reviews. You can’t yet share lists, but you can send yourself an alert when prices drop [...]
Mac laptop prices steady as Windows prices fall
The average price of a Mac laptop has fallen just 3 percent over the last two years, compared to a 20 percent decline in Windows laptop pricing.
Speculation that Apple might be slashing
Mac prices in the coming weeks could get a boost from new data released by The NPD Group.
That suggests that the “product transition” [...]
Google sets sights on IPv6
The IPv6 Google search is available here, but if you don’t have an IPv6 connection, it’ll come up as a broken link.
“We hope it’s only a matter of time before IPv6 is widely deployed,” the Google blog post read. “We will be doing our part.”
Right now, much of the world relies on the fourth iteration [...]
Windows Live hopes Wave 3 is a good ride
In addition to updating the desktop programs, Microsoft is also expected to make updates to its online services–things like Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Spaces.
(Credit:
Microsoft)
“Microsoft encourages interested Windows Live customers and the tech-savvy community to test the new features and functionality,” the software maker said in a statement. “It is recommended that consumers wait [...]




