By Greg Mills
Frankly, the blunt answer is yes, but not necessarily in its current business model — and many publishers will not make the transition. I laughed when I saw where some well known national magazines launched an app and were charging US$5 an issue for an electronic version of a print magazine you can subscribe to for $8 per year — for 12 full color magazines delivered to your door.
Read MoreEarlier this week I talked about the possibility of a stereoscopic (ie, 3D). Whether or not they’re Macs, 3D computers look as if they’ll arrive sooner than I expected.
CyberLink Corp. is showing visitors to this week’s Computex expo a demonstration of PowerDVD 10 ULTRA 3D that enables Blu-ray 3D movie playback on computers. With PowerDVD, consumers will purportedly be able to enjoy full 1080p high-definition stereoscopic video on Blu-ray 3D movies.
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A new patent (number 20100138654) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office for a system of digital rights management (DRM) that would identify the authenticity of a device based on the unique physical emission properties of a “particle gun.” The invention invention relates to DRM and more specifically to authentication or hashing functions.
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By Greg Mills
Some readers must think I am anti-Ballmer. But really, without Steve Ballmer I would have to find some one else to criticize — and with the Microsoft exec it’s so easy.
Who else has ridden a stone cold, worldwide monopoly into the ground? Since Mr. Ballmer took over at Microsoft in 2000, it has lost half its market cap. From US$500 billion to 250 billion dollars. Hello, Bill Gates … Earth to Gates … come in Bill … can you hear me now?
Read MoreIn what is bound to make Mac users like me a bit uncomfortable, in his interview at the “All Things D” event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the post-PC (that’s “personal computer,” by the way, not a Windows system) has begun. And I’m sure he feels the iPad is a milestone in this transition.
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