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Comment Re:Ok, uhmmmm duh? (Score 1) 95

by NealokNYU on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @02:45PM (#22932988) Attached to: Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live

As long as you actually enter all calendar data on Google Calendar, this is a top-notch solution, thanks to Google's support for ICS. My iCal, Outlook, my Verizon phone (using Verizon Wireless Access by Intellisync), and Lightning* all check the Google homebase for calendar updates. Depending on the service, the clients go haywire when I try to update calendars from the non-Google application, but it's pretty amazing that my calendar gets pushed to a bunch of devices, such that any one of them can be my calendar, to say nothing of any internet-enabled terminal. Gotta love 2008!

Now, if we could just stop raping the planet, technology would be so super-rad!

MPAA Committed To Fair Use and DRM 212

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 26, 2007 @11:52AM from the crack-in-the-wall dept.

Doctor Jay writes "At a LexisNexis Conference on DRM this week, MPAA's Dan Glickman announced that the MPAA was fine with consumers ripping DVDs for portable video players and home media servers. 'In his speech to industry insiders at the posh Beverly Hills Four Seasons hotel, Glickman repeatedly stressed that DRM must be made to work without constricting consumers. The goal, he said, was "to make things simpler for the consumer," and he added that the movie studios were open to "a technology summit" featuring academics, IT companies, and content producers to work on the issues involved.'"

Journal Journal: Tool to sync up bookmarks/etc across multiple machines 6

Journal by nizo on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:20PM

This looks to be the best thing ever for tracking my bookmarks across multiple machines (firefox only, though I think there is an exploder version too):
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

It can also sync cookies, history, passwords, etc. Pretty nifty.

Submission + - Has open-source lost its halo?

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:49PM

PetManimal writes: "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether "open source" has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:

[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to "ride a trend," while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft "as a shill" to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles.
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