Turn off auto-update
If you can’t stand the idea of Windows morphing on you, here’s the information you need FOR THE PAST two months I’ve written about patches, service packs, and the update process for Windows XP and 2000. Several readers have responded…
Not quite resting easy
Unrest at Oracle I SEEM TO BE stricken with a bout of insomnia of late. “What is it that is keeping you awake, Bobby?” Amber asked. I wish it were easy to answer, my dear. I think I just need…
CTOs learn to play a rich-media game
What the gaming and entertainment industries can offer for the enterprise ONCE MARGINALIZED IN the technology industry, games developers are becoming a sought-after commodity. Their understanding of complex technology issues and peer-to-peer networking make them the ideal developers in today’s…
DRM knocks at the enterprise door
Enterprises and their IT staffs can’t ignore digital rights management forever So far, enterprise IT isn’t mired in the DRM swamp. For the most part, the content that DRM aims to control is produced by the entertainment industry and consumed…
In my own dream
‘Nightmare on DRM Street’ has a plot that is eerily familiar, but don’t blame me if it’s already copyrighted LAST NIGHT I HAD a strange dream. The DRMocrats have just been re-elected, sweeping all three houses of government in a…
Playing the broadband market
Gaming publisher Gigex turns to real-time broadband to manage fees for unpredicted traffic spikes Dateline: July 4 — World Wide Web THE U.S. ARMY launches a special “Recon” version of America’s Army, a 10-level, realistic, military role-playing and simulation game…
Building a better browser
Smart client-side apps bolster services-oriented computing THE INTERNET’S SERVERCENTRIC model is demonstrating itself too slow and too static for the medium to advance beyond a document warehouse. Static forms are persistently cornering server resources. Round-trip server calls hog bandwidth and…
Enterprise play
The gaming and entertainment industries have surprising technology solutions to offer enterprise CTOs SETH BERGER draws on his experience as a game developer in his role as CTO of Estco Medical, a Bethesda, Md.-based Web site developer for the medical…
Dell and Compaq: A tale of two chip sets
Compaq’s ProLiant DL-580 is built around ServerWorks’ Grand Champion-HE chip set. This silicon links the DL-580’s processors to each other, to memory, and to I/O devices. Compaq’s chip-set choice creates a lower performance ceiling in a system populated with one…
Entertainment CTOs see copyright concerns as roadblock to innovation
As innovation in the gaming industry grows unabated, the highly anticipated convergence of technologies in the entertainment market is overshadowed by politics and security issues surrounding content delivery and digital rights management. Hollywood has made copyright protection of its movies…
