Forrester Finds Slow Adoption Restricting Federal eGovernment's Future

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Windows XP Adoption Rates Slow

Windows XP Adoption Rates Slow 06/17/2005 04:36 PM
Although many are eagerly awaiting Microsoft next version of Windows, known as Longhorn, a recent study by AssetMetrix shows that many companies have not even upgraded to Windows XP, a full four years after its release. Windows 2000 is still installed on 48 percent of all corporate PCs.

VoIP faces slow adoption

VoIP faces slow adoption 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
ZDNet Dec 24 2003 10:40AM ET

Fear Over Health Sector Job Losses Could
Slow the Adoption Of RFID

Fear Over Health Sector Job Losses Could
Slow the Adoption Of RFID 12/17/2004 06:32 PM
Wireless tagging technology could help health providers save lives, improve workflow efficiency and reduce the cost of caring for patients. However, according to a report to be published later this week by the Cambridge UK based consultancy Wireless Healthcare, a fear of job losses and the belief that the provision of healthcare cannot be automated will slow the deployment of potentially life saving technology. [PRWEB Dec 8, 2004]

Business Adoption Of Windows XP SP2
Still Low, Survey Finds

Business Adoption Of Windows XP SP2
Still Low, Survey Finds 04/09/2005 05:20 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 9:32PM GMT

Federal Oceans Commission Finds Decline
Along Coasts

Federal Oceans Commission Finds Decline
Along Coasts 04/21/2004 02:03 AM
The first major federal assessment of the oceans in a generation endorsed on Tuesday the gloomy scientific view of the nation's deteriorating coastal waters.

9/11 Panel Finds CIA Slow to See Looming
Threat From Al Qaeda (Los Angeles Times)

9/11 Panel Finds CIA Slow to See Looming
Threat From Al Qaeda (Los Angeles Times) 04/15/2004 05:08 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Despite years of escalating attacks, the CIA was slow to understand the scale and structure of Al Qaeda, and never produced a comprehensive report on the threat posed by the terrorist network before the Sept. 11 strikes, according to new findings released Wednesday by the commission investigating the attacks.

Stoplight to punish suburban speeders /
Pleasanton finds a way to slow impatient
drivers

Stoplight to punish suburban speeders /
Pleasanton finds a way to slow impatient
drivers 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Stoplight to punish suburban speeders / Pleasanton finds a way to slow impatient drivers .. turn red if they catch you speeding .. The Fast and the Frustrated .. Smart Stop Lights .. forced to stop

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Philips Finds New Material for Future
Memory Chips

Philips Finds New Material for Future
Memory Chips 03/17/2005 03:22 AM
Dutch Philips Electronics says its researchers have come up with a new material to integrate memory in very advanced semiconductors featuring very thin circuits.

Philips Finds New Material for Future
Memory Chips (Reuters)

Philips Finds New Material for Future
Memory Chips (Reuters) 03/17/2005 04:07 AM
Reuters - Dutch Philips Electronics said on Wednesday its researchers have come up with a new material to integrate memory in very advanced semiconductors featuring very thin circuits.

Senior Vice President of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas To Discuss The
Future of the U.S. Economy On Internet
Talk Radio Show December 22

Senior Vice President of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas To Discuss The
Future of the U.S. Economy On Internet
Talk Radio Show December 22 12/24/2004 12:54 PM
Senior vice president and chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, W. Michael Cox, will discuss some of the nations most relevant economic issues facing America today on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 3 PM Eastern on the VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network (http://www.business.voiceamerica.com/). [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

Demand for Future Mobile Services Due to
the Slow Take-up of Early 3G Services

Demand for Future Mobile Services Due to
the Slow Take-up of Early 3G Services 08/06/2004 04:31 AM
3G Aug 6 2004 8:01AM GMT

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
let it slow

Shark Tank: Let it slow, let it slow,
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It's the height of the holiday shopping season, and this pilot fish is hitting a big computer and electronics store to stuff his stockings. Then comes time for him to check out.

A Federal Judge Blocked Implementation
Of A Federal Ban On Partial-Birth
Abortions Wednesday Less Than An Hour
After President Bush Signed The Ban Into
Law -- Injunction For Neb. Doctors
Likely Has No Effect Nationwide

A Federal Judge Blocked Implementation
Of A Federal Ban On Partial-Birth
Abortions Wednesday Less Than An Hour
After President Bush Signed The Ban Into
Law -- Injunction For Neb. Doctors
Likely Has No Effect Nationwide 11/06/2003 06:30 AM

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Forrester presentation on RSS

Forrester presentation on RSS 09/16/2004 07:38 AM

Forrester Research just announced a presentation titled An Introduction To RSS: Why Companies Should Pay Attention Now. I talked with presenter Charlene Li recently, and can vouch that she's done her homework on RSS.

Quick Tip: Restricting PHP Function
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Quick Tip: Restricting PHP Function
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Christian Stocker has a quick little tip over on his blog today for anyone that's using PHP inside their XSL stylesheets - and how they can limit which functions can be used.

Gates: Restricting IP rights is
tantamount to communism

Gates: Restricting IP rights is
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Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED

Apple restricting DVD region-changes --
voluntarily! -- UPDATED 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: Apple's DVD players are subject to restrictive rules laid out by greedy Hollywood studios that don't really care if they piss off Apple's customers, since that's Apple's lookout. However, I've just discovered, to my amazement, that Apple imposes its very own restrictions on its DVD players over and above those imposed by the studios: that's right, Apple voluntarily treats its customers worse than the studios say it has to.

In the crazy world of DRM for DVDs, there's this idea that a Hollywood studio should be able to tell you where you're allowed to watch a DVD after you buy it. They accomplish this with something called "Region Codes." Discs have region-codes and players have region-codes. If you have a Region 1 disc (US and Canada) and a Region 2 player (Europe), and you put the disc in the player, the player will reject it.

But what happens when you take your laptop from New York to London? You're in Region 2, but you bought your device in Region 1. Can you buy a disc in London and play it on your computer?

Yes and no. When a computer manufacturer gets a DVD-decoding license from Hollywood's licensing cartel (the DVD Copy Control Association or CCA), it is allowed to make players that can change regions up to five times.

What's more, once the region-switches have run out, computer companies can reset your counter at a service depot a further five times. That means that you get 25 region-switches. This sucks pretty bad: I moved from San Francisco to London with hundreds of Region 1 DVDs and now when I buy a movie in the shop, it's Region 2. That means that if I watch a movie from my US collection once a week, and once from my UK connection the next week, I'll run out of region switches in three months. Three months after moving to the UK, I'll have to throw out half my DVDs.

So, basically, I don't watch my DVDs. Sometimes, though, I'm weak, and I tune into one and squander one of my precious region switches. Now my nearly-new Powerbook has only one switch left out of its initial five, and so I brought it to Apple to get them to reset the counter. It needed service anyway (I'm on my fifth or sixth screen replacement for the defect in the 15" machines that causes the "white blobs" to obscure the display), so it seemed like a good time to do it.

I know that Apple is allowed to do this. How do I know? Well, when EFF went to the Copyright Office and asked it to give us an exemption to the DMCA to make tools for watching out-of-region DVDs, Time-Warner showed up and told us this:

"And, the way it works, and I apologize because it's a little bit complicated, the consumer can set it five times. After the fifth time that they've reset it, they do have an ability to reset it again, but they have to bring the drive to an authorized dealer or an authorized service representative, who can then authorize an additional set of five changes, and then they can bring it back for a second, for a third, fourth and fifth set of authorized changes. So you can change it 25 times in total, but you have to go back for each set of five. You only get the first five when you buy the ROM drive itself."

That was Dean Marks, from AOL Time Warner. Straight from the horse's mouth, testifying to the US government.

But when my Powerbook was ready for pickup, Apple left me a voicemail saying that they couldn't reset my DVD player, that doing so would void my warranty.

When I went into the Apple Store in London to get the machine, I asked about it. I wanted this in writing: if they had a policy that said that they couldn't fix my region-counter, I wanted to be able to tell Dean Marks about it the next time we went to the Copyright Office and ask him why Apple thought it couldn't reset my counter.

Apple refused to put it into writing. They refused to let me record them telling me they couldn't fix my Powerbook. They wouldn't even put in writing that they were referring me to the legal department. Eventually I spoke to the manager, who promised to get back to me the next day.

The next day, he did. He told me that he'd spoken to legal and that they wouldn't put anything in writing. However, they did have some documents on their website they printed for me that talk about DVDs.

1. DVD Player: About DVD-Video Regions, last modified July 16, 2004, technical contributor J Scalo. This document describes the different regions, saying that after five region-switches, "the drive is permanently set to use that region, and you cannot make any more changes."

   Interestingly, this also contains something labeled APPLE EYES ONLY that says that

   On Wallstreet and PDQ (PowerBook G3 Series M4753), the number of region code changes remaining is not stored in the firmware of the DVD drive but rather in the DVD extension and NVRAM. This information should absolutely not be conveyed to the customer.

   In extreme customer satisfaction situations you can reset the region change count by following this procedure:

   1. Reset PRAM/NVRAM by pressing Fn-Ctrl-Shift-Power while the computer is turned off
   2. Startup with system extensions off.
   3. Restart with system extensions on.

   Note: This procedure resets some of the customer's custom settings.

   After following this procedure, the region change count for the drive is reset to five.

   In later PowerBook models, the region count is stored in the firmware of the drive and cannot be reset with this procedure.

2. Changing the region code of your DVD drive, last modified on January 23, 2004. This document says that you can only change your region code five times. "After that, the region code is set permanently and you cannot change it."

So there's two things going on here that I'm pretty pissed off about:

1. The studios have screwed the electronics companies with this region code business and I have to throw out my DVDs or buy an extra Powerbook or something
2. Worse, though: Apple has a policy about region-changing that is more restrictive than it has to be: they're playing for the other side. This really stinks and makes me wonder why I should keep on buying Apple hardware.

Lots of Apple execs read Boing Boing. If you have a reply on this, email me and I'll be happy to discuss it with you.

Update: Many of you have written to point out that VLC plays out of region DVDs on a Powerbook. That's nice, but it doesn't work reliably on my Powerbook.

Update 2: Thanks for all the tips on how to hack my Powerbook or change its firmware. I'm afraid that I'm not in the market for this, though, tempting as it is, as I've been informed that using these tools will void my warranty.

4G to combine WiMax and 3G, says
Forrester

4G to combine WiMax and 3G, says
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Forrester Gives Nod to Yahoo! Search

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Bush Backs Policy Restricting Images of
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CA Bill Restricting Google's Gmail
Passes Senate

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Dubai Police joins eGovernment's
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Forrester Software Assurance ROI Tool

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Offshoring is taking off, Forrester
reports

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UPDATE 1-Calif. Senate backs restricting
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center handled over 60,000 calls and
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Forrester debunks 3G: It won't impact
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U.S. web sites inaccessible for the
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Forrester: Tech execs optimistic about
spending

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Linux firms slam Forrester report

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Offshoring increases at faster pace,
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