What is happening? A whole bunch of tech companies, studios and content distributors (notably absent being Apple ) including Best Buy , Cisco , Comcast , Fox , HP , Intel , Lionsgate , Microsoft , NBC Universal , Paramount Pictures , Philips , Sony , Toshiba , VeriSign , and Warner Bros have gotten together for a big Digital Restrictions Management lovein they are calling Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem or DECE for the acronymically inclined.
Why? They figure that the reason why everyone hates having their digital rights restricted is that we just can’t have our rights restricted on any platform that we choose. Well, I guess that is one of the reasons so I take my hat of to them for the progress they are making in understanding their consumers. Unfortunately our friends at the DECE still have a long way to go before you could consider their perspectives in any way reasonable.
I understand fully that content producers need to monetiseĀ...
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Sebastian Vettel - suprise victory at MonzaFrom: synesius.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-14 06:37:04
Just watched the Channel TenĀ broadcast of Monza.
Vettel made history getting the poll position coming out of qualifying, at that I was shocked…the fact that he continued on to win the race by a very decent margin over his world class competition and considering that Toro Rosso is the old Minardi team I almost fell of my chair ;)
Other solid performances were from Heikki Kovalainen, Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber…too tired to write anymore as it’s almost midnight in...
more MS SQL Server and the LSE, oops!From: synesius.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-09 04:27:14
I remember reading a press release a few years back where HP and Microsoft were tooting their own horns about how enterprise ready MS Server and SQL Server were and how the LSE had used HP, .NET and SQL Server technologies to build out the new TradElect system being implemented. I can’t imagine they’ll be too proud of themselves after the full day outage on Monday . This is a very big deal, the LSE is the worlds third biggest exchange with other exchanges such as the JSE le...
more Links for 07/09/2008From: synesius.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-06 23:01:52
Superbug strain loose in the community: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355881.htm?section=justin
There is a new super strain of the superbug, which began in Queensland and has spread throughout Australia - and not just in hospitals. Young people are most at risk!!!
Elephant gets the monkey off his back: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355860.htm?section=justin
Theres something disturbing about an elephant with a Heroin habit
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