It may seem that way, I don’t mean to pick on Oracle, but lately I've seen a number of boastful ads from the database and CRM giant in various media that makes me a bit wary of this company. Gloating in ads is nothing new. Politicians do it all the time and so do many — Continue reading »
DRM (Digital Rights Management) and Amazon Unbox, Part 3
📆 April 11, 2007
Up to this point I had downloaded a Star Trek WMV file from Amazon Unbox to one PC. Having experienced performance issues, I had copied it to another PC and learned that the WMV film was protected by Microsoft's Windows Media DRM (Digital Rights Managements). Finally I had dismantled the first PC and had built — Continue reading »
DRM (Digital Rights Management) and Amazon Unbox, Part 2
📆 April 10, 2007
I have to admit when it comes to DRM (Digital Rights Management) my knowledge is pretty dismal. I always knew that it was meant to prevent piracy but not being a fanatic of music and movies, DRM was never in my priority list of things to learn. But when I tried to run the Star — Continue reading »
DRM (Digital Rights Management) and Amazon Unbox, Part 1
📆 April 8, 2007
I have been running the Amazon Unbox ad banner atop my site's pages for a while now, but never used the service until recently. Unbox is the name of Amazon's TV and movie download service that went online a few months ago. So in the spirit of using what I advertise, I decided to take — Continue reading »
Oracle's SAP Lawsuit
📆 April 1, 2007
Consider this as another escalation of hostilities between the two ERP titans, Oracle and SAP. About 10 days ago Oracle filed a lawsuit accusing SAP of stealing internal tech support documents used by Oracle's clients. The story as is unfolding details how TomorrowNow, a SAP's subsidiary, logged into accounts designated for some of Oracle's large — Continue reading »
Oracle's SAP Lawsuit
Consider this as another escalation of hostilities between the two ERP titans, Oracle and SAP. About 10 days ago Oracle filed a lawsuit accusing SAP of stealing internal tech support documents used by Oracle's clients. The story as is unfolding details how TomorrowNow, a SAP's subsidiary, logged into accounts designated for some of Oracle's large — Continue reading »
Wikipedia via Google
📆 March 25, 2007
The other day, after reading this article about factual errors on Wikipedia, it dawned on me how often my family and I uses Wikipedia to find information. It's an amazing tool and while the warnings about mistakes and misinformation have dogged it for years, it continues to be one of the most popular sites on — Continue reading »
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