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Top electronic makers to set standards
for power-line networks (AFP)

Top electronic makers to set standards
for power-line networks (AFP) 01/06/2005 11:41 AM
AFP - Three top Japanese firms said they will team up to establish standards for using power lines in home networking, an emerging technology billed as a way to offer easy, high-speed access.

Drive makers ready 5x DVD-RAM burners

Drive makers ready 5x DVD-RAM burners 05/25/2004 11:50 AM
We're the fastest format, claims trade body

Mac drive makers patch FireWire flaw

Mac drive makers patch FireWire flaw 11/03/2003 05:53 PM

Flash-drive makers forming group

Flash-drive makers forming group 12/08/2003 12:05 AM
Several companies are creating an industry group to promote a kind of portable data storage device that's small enough to fit on a keychain.

Mac drive makers help stamp out FireWire
flaw

Mac drive makers help stamp out FireWire
flaw 10/31/2003 01:57 PM
A number of hard drive manufacurers release patches designed to prevent a glitch that has caused some FireWire 800 drives to lose data when used with the new version of Mac OS X.

Happy holidays for makers of disk-drive
parts

Happy holidays for makers of disk-drive
parts 12/23/2003 04:35 PM
CNET Dec 23 2003 3:15PM ET

Drive makers ally to push portable data

Drive makers ally to push portable data 12/08/2003 04:36 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 8 2003 4:08AM ET

Flash-drive makers form booster group

Flash-drive makers form booster group 12/08/2003 10:30 AM
ZDNet Dec 8 2003 9:44AM ET

It's a Happy Christmas for Disk Drive
Parts Makers

It's a Happy Christmas for Disk Drive
Parts Makers 12/23/2003 03:51 AM
Boston Globe Dec 23 2003 3:18AM ET

Disk Drive Makers Tighten Belts, Also
Fire People

Disk Drive Makers Tighten Belts, Also
Fire People 07/05/2004 10:47 AM

Om Malik, who changes website themes like I change shirts, which is to say 'every once in a while', opines on the future of hard drive manufacturers, who are currently in the process of losing their shirts right off their kicked-asses' backs, despite an ever-increasing demand for their product.

Now that is conventional wisdom! However, some of my friends who work in the disk drive business, are suggesting an unconventional logic. They believe that instead of focussing on churning out higher capacity drives at neck-snapping speeds (i.e. Moore's Law), the industry needs to become more responsive to the real market trends and offer many types of drives. (Moore's Claw)

Which is better? More reliable, more expensive hard drives, or large, cheap, and unreliable drives that can be rolled into a more-reliable RAID? I guess the answer is, "Both."

Maybe hard drive makers could take a tip from Taiwan's wildly-successful cameraphone imaging chip manufacturer Pixart, who is in an mildly-related bit of news is making noise about going all IPO on that ass. The ass of commerce, I guess I'm saying.
Read - The Disk Drive Conundrum [GigaOm]
Read - Taiwan's Pixart Reaps Camera Phone Boom, Eyes IPO [Reuters]

optical drive makers predict entry-level
DVD recorder drop

optical drive makers predict entry-level
DVD recorder drop 04/21/2004 05:02 AM

Software Makers: Soon They'll Be Fewer

Software Makers: Soon They'll Be Fewer 07/09/2004 03:12 AM
Business Week Jul 9 2004 6:52AM GMT

Software makers patch Zip tiff

Software makers patch Zip tiff 01/22/2004 03:36 PM
PKWare and WinZip, two makers of file compression software, settle a security spat that made some files in the popular Zip format incompatible.

Software makers readies Web tool

Software makers readies Web tool 08/09/2002 03:57 PM
CNET Aug 9 2002 2:23PM ET

IBM teams with software makers on grid

IBM teams with software makers on grid 06/16/2004 11:30 AM
New software applications could move grid out of the esoteric realm and into mainstream business.

IM software makers talk compliance

IM software makers talk compliance 11/11/2003 06:51 PM

3 Video Game Makers Sue Over Software
(AP)

3 Video Game Makers Sue Over Software
(AP) 06/15/2004 01:41 PM
AP - Three makers of video games sued a Missouri company marketing software that enables consumers to make backup copies of computer games.

Briefly: IM software makers talk
compliance

Briefly: IM software makers talk
compliance 11/11/2003 09:09 PM
CNET Nov 11 2003 7:58PM ET

Software makers ready desktop lockdown

Software makers ready desktop lockdown 04/20/2004 04:59 PM

Software makers forced to issue their
own fixes

Software makers forced to issue their
own fixes 07/27/2004 09:29 AM

Browser makers warned against
ad-blocking: ZDNet Australia: News:
Software

Browser makers warned against
ad-blocking: ZDNet Australia: News:
Software 06/24/2005 06:09 PM
CEO of DoubleClick is throwing his two cents into the brain raffle .. www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39198608,00.htm .. what their executives are saying

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Drive Imaging Software On The Mac?

Drive Imaging Software On The Mac? 11/12/2003 10:18 PM

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform 12/19/2004 03:46 PM
RTI's NDDS Publish-Subscribe Solution for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS Now Available for Advanced Distributed Systems [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

UN drive to boost free software

UN drive to boost free software 08/28/2004 02:20 AM
The UN is holding events across Asia to encourage the region to adopt free and open source software.

Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?

Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? 11/12/2003 03:20 PM
Futurepower(R) asks: "Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP have crippled file systems. The file system cannot copy some of the files that are necessary to the ...

EU Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive

EU Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive 03/14/2005 06:21 PM
After last week's events, where the European Council caused a major blow to the democracy in the EU, and just walked over the European Parliament and its own judicial processes by accepting the Directive for Software patents, some enterprising individuals have set up an European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive. It consists of a group of individuals who are tired at the lobbying of the big corporations, and attempts to collect money to simply bribe the European Council Presidency (held by Luxembourg) to rejecting the Directive Proposal.

I guess the idea is fair - after all, the big companies are pouring money into the lobbying as well - but bribing a politician is not exactly legal, nor is encouraging someone to bribe one. Blatantly stating that one is collecting money to bribe a country is a good example of "attention journalism", but I doubt that it is really going to change anything. The proper use of that money would be to hire lawyers and individuals with a slick tongue and a soft touch to go into the halls of the EU to lobby really hard. Which can be achieved by supporting organizations such as FFII and EFFi.

However, should the directive pass, not all is lost for Open Source. While big corporations will hastily go and patent everything under the Sun to protect themselves, small companies that do not have the money or the skills to patent their innovation will have to turn elsewhere for protection: A patent needs to be, above all, three things: it has to be 1) non-obvious (though the USPTO has pretty much thrown this one away), 2) innovative, 3) and new (i.e. non-published). Publishing your innovation as Open Source essentially makes it impossible for anyone else to patent the same invention - therefore protecting your corporation.

Unfortunately, this does not prevent anyone from suing your company. However, participating in an Open Source project means that other corporations are likely to be using that innovation as well, therefore increasing the number of people who have a vested interest in participating in the battle - on your side.

It has to be understood that most of the SW patents in the USA are defensive in nature, much like nuclear weapons during the Cold War. There would be little incentive to attack an Open Source Project, as OSS in general is very benign and not likely to attack anyone. In fact, the corporations who should fear the impact of SW patents on OSS are the same big corporations that are using or planning to use OSS components: they are regularly subjected to big law suits where no ammunition is spared - including SW patent breaches.

This Directive seems very much like a Microsoft-directive: after all, it is one of the few companies in the world that are not using OSS components anywhere, but building everything in-house or subcontractin

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Fine-tune your software to drive
efficiency in IT

Fine-tune your software to drive
efficiency in IT 09/06/2004 09:42 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 7 2004 1:11AM GMT

"six apart (makers of movable type
bl0gging software and typepad bl0gging
service) are going to buy live journal"

"six apart (makers of movable type
bl0gging software and typepad bl0gging
service) are going to buy live journal" 01/05/2005 04:20 AM

Taking Software for a Test-Drive (Ziff
Davis)

Taking Software for a Test-Drive (Ziff
Davis) 09/07/2004 10:46 AM
Ziff Davis - Enterprise application vendors should be lauded for offering evaluation versions.

Oracle hire reinforces software services
drive

Oracle hire reinforces software services
drive 09/16/2004 05:48 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 16 2004 9:42AM GMT

Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today)

Beta tests announced of mortgage
industry XML standards (E-Business
Standards Today) 07/23/2002 05:15 PM

Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive

Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive 12/25/2003 04:27 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 25 2003 3:36AM ET

Asian Gov'ts Drive Open-Source Linux
Software Sales

Asian Gov'ts Drive Open-Source Linux
Software Sales 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Boston Globe Jun 9 2004 8:30AM GMT

Citrix Enables Microsoft Federal
Government Customers to Take a Software
Test Drive

Citrix Enables Microsoft Federal
Government Customers to Take a Software
Test Drive 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 12:39PM GMT

Asian Gov'ts Drive Open-Source Linux
Software Sales (Reuters)

Asian Gov'ts Drive Open-Source Linux
Software Sales (Reuters) 06/08/2004 10:01 PM
Reuters - Asian governments are adopting the freely available Linux operating system in a bid to cut costs and address security concerns, helping the region drive global growth in demand for the software, vendors and analysts said.

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too?

You thought web standards were bad, how
about PC, DVD and Recorder standards
too? 11/06/2003 07:39 AM
move everything to a built in copy-protection scheme .. Buy Digital TVs, VCRs and DVD players NOW .. The end of recording TV shows approaches

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E-Time System, Moonrise Announce
Strategic Partnership, Raise Software
Standards With New ‘POS’ Public Access
Product Self-service technology and
e-commerce leaders target interactive
kiosk industry with new “Point of Sale”
applications.

E-Time System, Moonrise Announce
Strategic Partnership, Raise Software
Standards With New ‘POS’ Public Access
Product Self-service technology and
e-commerce leaders target interactive
kiosk industry with new “Point of Sale”
applications. 05/31/2004 02:17 PM
Moonrise Systems, Inc. publishers of NetStop Internet kiosk browser and Pennsylvania-based E-Time System, Inc. announced their collaboration on a new software product for public Internet access terminals. The announcement follows the signing of an exclusive strategic marketing agreement earlier this year. [PRWEB May 28, 2004]

With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about

With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about 09/02/2004 05:47 AM
Xinhua News Agency Sep 2 2004 10:20AM GMT

Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive

Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive 06/30/2004 12:37 PM

The Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 is 40GB external hard drive that is clunky, cheap-looking, has a crappy text-only integrated screen, plays MP3s, but not WMA, AAC, or OGG Vorbis, and can only read from one card from its card reader at a time. So why would any photographer want it? Because it's cheap, it does the primary job it was designed to do (act as remote backup for memory cards), and can accept as many additional 2.5-inch laptop hard drives as you want to swap into it, meaning that all other things aside, you can purchase this single $335 drive and continue to upgrade it for only the price of additional hard drives.
Read - Hard disk: X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 [BIOS]

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