Archive for March 16th, 2007
“Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp.’s key antipiracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista’s registry lets users put off the operating system’s product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely…” (Read full article here)
March 16th, 2007
“Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it will buy online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. and a file storage management provider called NeoPath Networks. Cisco, which is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and employs approximately 2,700 people in the Triangle, makes routers and switches that direct data over computer networks. The networking giant (Nasdaq: CSCO) will pay about $3.2 billion in cash, or $57 per share, for WebEx. That represents a 23 percent premium over Santa Clara, Calif.-based WebEx’s closing price of $46.20 on Wednesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market…” (Read full article here)
March 16th, 2007
“StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com), the best way to discover new sites and videos on the Internet, today announced that it now has more than two million users. The immense popularity of StumbleUpon and its dedicated video site, Stumble Video, is driven by an active base of ‘Stumblers’ who have rated more than eight million websites and videos, and who have stumbled more than 1.4 billion times…” (Read full article here)
March 16th, 2007
“Earlier this month, the Copyright Royalty Board, the oversight body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in the music business, issued a higher fee structure for web music broadcasts, and web radio executives plan to fight it. For small, publicly funded stations and web radio startups, the new structure could mean the end of their business, writes CNN.com. Roger LeMay, general manager of WXPN-FM, a web-based radio station, says that his station could be paying about $1 million a year in royalties under the new ruling. National Public Radio spokeswoman Andi Sporkin said it would cost stations 20 to 30 times what they are paying now in royalties. To fight the new fees, NPR officials will file a petition for reconsideration. If that fails, NPR has said that it will bring whatever legal challenges necessary to overturn the decision…” (Read full article here)
March 16th, 2007
