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Jul 31

Over on Techdirt Thursday morning, there’s a report about some angry PC users of Electronic Arts games.

The gamers are upset, according to a post in the Mass Effect forums, because EA is apparently implementing a new Internet-based digital rights management system, known as SecuROM, that they find onerous, intrusive, and inconvenient.

If they’re already doing that, they might want to consider seeking additional guidance. Because as the Sony rootkit scandal and other DRM PR nightmares have shown, users do not want to be controlled in this way. And they vote with their wallets.

To be sure, software companies feel they have to fight tooth and nail to avoid being robbed due to the ease with which many programs can be copied. But it seems they would do well to run their antipiracy/DRM systems by their PR departments–or, if they’re doing that already, then some outside consultants–to make sure that the systems aren’t going to alienate their user bases.

Systems like this are never going to be winners for companies like EA. For every copy of one of its games that it successfully keeps from being illegally copied, it’s going to lose a good customer who’s beyond annoyed at the way the system works and the way they feel they’re being treated.

Further, SecuROM seems to limit the number of times a game can be installed to three.

Then, it seems, if the key cannot be verified, SecuROM will attempt to do so for 10 more days. If, after that period, it still cannot be verified, Techdirt writes, the game will be locked down.

Techdirt writes that a new version of SecuROM being employed by EA “is causing controversy due to an online verification system connected to its CD key. The system requires a connection to the Internet during installation to check (that) the CD key is valid, and then registers the key with the users’ computer. After this the game will try to re-check the CD key every 5-10 days to ensure it hasn’t since been found posted on a forum, or used in some form of piracy.”

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Jul 30

A CNET reader provided this screen shot of the stock-price display glitch.

Meanwhile, Google revamped its finance page Thursday, responding to requests to “make it easier to follow the latest news affecting the market as well as those (stories) that are relevant to your portfolio.”

Some users of the customizable My Yahoo portal were unable to see prices for their lists of company stocks for a few days, but the Internet company said the problem has been fixed.

A lot of users griped about it though, as ZDnet blogger Garett Rogers observed. “Horrible, horrible new look. How ungoogly!” said one commenter in a long thread of complaints in the comments section below Google’s blog. “The clean and crisp look of your old site was your best feature! Put the classic look back or at least give me an option to still have the classic look.”

The problem afflicted only a small fraction of users, less than 0.5 percent, the company said, and was fixed Thursday. Those who were affected should consider upgrading to the newer My Yahoo version, said spokeswoman Stephanie Arnaldy.

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Jul 30

FCC: Comcast illegally squeezed BitTorrent

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Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was illegal. It’s the first time any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to violate Net neutrality rules. But it’s not an open-and-shut case. Though Comcast has since stopped the practice, it’s unclear whether the FCC actually has the authority to rule on this kind of issue. CNET News’ Declan McCullagh stops by to explain the implications.

Homeland security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period

Also on Friday’s podcast: Yahoo shareholders finally get their say; a California judge says early-termination fees for wireless plans are illegal; and the Department of Homeland Security says it can confiscate any laptops taken across U.S. borders.

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California judge rules Sprint’s early termination fees illegal

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Jul 30

Glassdoor's data shows Yahoo’s Jerry Yang became very unpopular May 14.

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Public beta users will be able to see data from four sample employers–Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and Cisco Systems–without providing their own information. To get information on more than those four, they’ll have to “give to get,” as the company calls it. So far, more than 3,300 people have filed dossiers on more than 250 companies (not all of them in tech), according to Glassdoor.

Soon after May 14, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s approval rating among an admittedly small group of Yahoo employees tanked. Not surprisingly, that was the day word spread that corporate raider Carl Icahn was launching his proxy fight against Yang and Yahoo’s embattled board of directors.

Co-founders Robert Hohman and Tim Besse, along with Barton, provided the seed funding for Sausalito, Calif.-based Glassdoor, and they received an additional $3 million from venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. Hohman (who is chief executive; Besse is marketing vice president) hopes the information will be unique enough to get by on advertising revenue.

Founded by veterans of Microsoft and Expedia (Rich Barton, the CEO of real estate site Zillow, is non-executive chairman) Glassdoor has a fairly simple goal: Make salary and workplace-quality information (the kind of stuff you’d love to have when you’re interviewing for a new job) as public as possible.

Employee reviews include “pros” and “cons” of each company, leadership ratings, salaries by position, and bonus details. The site will also send out alerts for a company when reviews are added.

Which brings me back to Yahoo: While the 49 people who’ve filled out information about Yahoo is in no way a scientific sampling, the lousy CEO approval rating is certainly illustrative of nervousness inside the company. When a corporate raider like Icahn comes calling (particularly after a potential suitor like Microsoft takes a hike), there’s always reason to worry. Will executives cut costs to placate shareholders? Even worse: If the raider wins, will he gut payroll?

Glassdoor may have a unique method for gathering its data, but it’s hardly the only company trying to tackle salary information. Other outfits, such as Salary.com, which claims more than 4 million visitors per month and also sells a business service, are also in the salary info business. Indeed, human resources departments have for years been gathering data on competitors to decide if their salaries are competitive.

Employees provide Glassdoor's data and provide that information anonymously.

I know this because of a start-up called Glassdoor.com. While Glassdoor’s service, scheduled to go into a public beta at 9:01 PDT Tuesday, is certainly helpful for nosy reporters who want a read on what employees think of their bosses, that’s not the 12-person company’s only intention. Glassdoor executives say they want to be the TripAdvisor of the workplace.

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It’s an ambitious plan. The solution: The service is free, but in order to get information users have to provide information. If a user wants to find out how much, say, a midlevel engineer at Microsoft makes, he or she has to provide information about his or her current job and company. It’s anonymous, and Glassdoor screens information that seems bogus or plain-old axe-grinding. (It will be interesting to see how that labor-intensive work scales with new users. That and maintaining the quality of salary and company information are the biggest questions that will have to be answered in the not-too-distant future for Glassdoor.)

For a prospective employee, of course, the bigger question is: Should I work at this place?

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Jul 30

But in a letter sent to the FCC earlier this week, T-Mobile said it doesn’t fear competition from new service providers. Instead it simply “wants to ensure that its existing customers are able to place calls and maintain communications on the AWS-1 spectrum.”

The FCC has been considering auctioning 25 megahertz of spectrum in the 2155MHz to 2180MHz band of spectrum. As part of the rules for using the spectrum, the FCC plans to require license holders to offer some free wireless broadband service.

But T-Mobile USA, which spent $4.2 billion in 2006 acquiring spectrum in an adjacent band, says that opening up this spectrum would cause interference and disrupt service.

The FCC sees the plan, which is based on a proposal submitted to the FCC by M2Z Networks in 2006, as a way to provide broadband Internet service to millions of Americans who either can’t afford or don’t want to pay for high-speed Internet access.

Federal Communications Commission engineers will be conducting tests in Seattle next week to see if a proposed free wireless service would interfere with T-Mobile’s newly acquired spectrum.

T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major nationwide wireless carriers in the U.S., is using the AWS spectrum it recently acquired to provide additional capacity to launch its 3G services. The operator launched those services in two markets so far: Las Vegas and New York City. And it’s expected to launch the service in 80 percent of the top 20 markets by the end of the year.

M2Z, a potential bidder for the new spectrum, says that services could co-exist in the adjacent spectrum band without interference. The company and its supporters believe that T-Mobile and others who oppose the use of this spectrum are simply trying to derail potential competition.

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Jul 30

But in another example of what we’ve seen so far this summer, Apple’s recent mistakes involve communication, or the lack thereof. If the company would just come out and explain to developers what type of applications will be rejected, and why, developers could make a conscious decision about whether to invest their time and money in developing their application.

Over the weekend, a good old-fashioned Internet-style kerfuffle arose over Apple’s decision to reject Podcaster–an
iPhone application that lets people download podcasts directly to their devices without going through iTunes–from the App Store. The developer of the application said that Apple told him the application “duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes,” apparently making it unfit for the App Store.

The end result is that Apple’s attempt to control third-party development might be re-encouraging the growth of the jailbreaking market once again: iPhone OS 2.1 is already open to jailbroken applications.

On Friday, Fraser Spiers, creator of Exposure, lashed out at Apple’s lack of explicit policies regarding iPhone application development. “Apple’s current practice of rejecting certain applications at the final hurdle - submission to the App Store - is disastrous for investor confidence. Developers are investing time and resources in the App Store marketplace and, if developers aren’t confident, they won’t invest in it. If developers - and serious developers at that - don’t invest, what’s the point?”

Back in March, the company said it would prohibit applications that took up a lot of bandwidth, or delivered porn, but they have never explicitly stated what is permissible and what isn’t. And without any guidelines, developers have no way of knowing whether their application will be included in the only official market for iPhone applications until after they’ve done all the work on it.

I can’t help but be reminded of the Soup Nazi, brought to life by Bill Gates’ new best friend Jerry Seinfeld. Watch the clip if you don’t remember, or were in grade school when that came out, but if you didn’t order soup from the Soup Nazi in the exact right way, without asking any questions or voicing concerns–procedures that you were somehow just expected to know–no soup for you.

Back in March, Apple executives Scott Forstall, Steve Jobs, and Phil Schiller said Apple would approve all iPhone applications but didn't say very much about the criteria they planned to use.

This has been a persistent question hanging over Apple’s decision to vet every single iPhone and iPod Touch application sold through the App Store, the only official source of iPhone and
iPod Touch applications. How will Apple choose to wield this power? The rejection of Pull My Finger and I Am Rich didn’t cause as many waves as the execution of NetShare, but the exact parameters remain a mystery.

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Apple’s App Store policies are really starting to frustrate application developers.

Instead, Apple is giving developers a choice: they can take the risk of guessing whether their application will pass muster, or they can steer clear of developing any application that might infringe on Apple’s current or future plans; without knowing what those might be, of course. As Harry McCracken put it (via Daring Fireball), “Way back when, if software distribution for the
Mac had been handled via a Mac App Store with a don’t-duplicate-Apple-products policy, Photoshop might have been refused distribution on the grounds that it was too similar to MacPaint.”

It’s understandable that Apple might want to control the development of iPhone applications with an iron fist, given that the company attempts to control absolutely every last detail of its activities with an iron fist. And there are benign reasons for wanting to control application development so tightly, such as ensuring quality and security.

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Jul 30

Evri also is planning to offer content publishers widgets that produce related content for a particular page, similar to what Sphere (recently acquired by AOL), Inform, and Aggregate Knowledge provide.

Evri is expected to go into beta testing in a month, Roseman said. Some of the processing will be done via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud facility. He noted that scaling to cover more of the Web is very hard. Evri will be ad-supported and will not charge content partners. “We will give partners all the revenue,” Roseman said. “We want to build the network and get people to use Evri.”

Evri creates profile pages, which are like search results, that include a variety of lenses for an entity, such as top connections (entities most closely associated with the target entity), people, location, products, organizations, and events.

“What doesn’t work well is when you get to other places on the Web,” Roseman told me. “We read sentences, extracting the subject, objects and verbs, and map to other content on the Web.” Evri uses entity extraction, natural language processing, statistical analysis, and other technologies to create relevant connections based on meaning and concepts without human intervention.

Roseman is focusing Evri as a consumer product. He spent 10 years at Amazon working on several projects, including searching inside books, the MP3 store, and the server side of the Kindle reader. Currently, Evri has parsed less than 1 percent of the Web, working with 20,000 to 30,000 top-level domains and some full-text providers. “Once we distribute the widget to content providers, we will incrementally add more to our deep parsing, and figure out what drives the most page views on a daily basis and build the network over time,” Roseman said.

The profile pages are somewhat like what you get from Mahalo, which is human-powered, but closer to Powerset, Hakia, Twine, and and other new services that leverage semantic and natural language processing technologies to map concepts and meaning rather than keywords.

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Evri has a new twist on content navigation and discovery. Debuting Wednesday at D6, Evri is not a search engine, according to CEO Neil Roseman, but a “data graph of the Web” that leads to “incremental content engagement.”

Evri profile pages show five top connections as a starting point for drilling down into the related content and concepts.

Seattle-based Evri has 36 people, mostly engineers, and is wholly funded by Vulcan Capital. So far Vulcan has poured about $8 million into the company, including the acquisition of some technology and engineering talent from Insightful, Roseman said. The company plans to go for Series A funding round this year.

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Jul 30

Regardless, this is small comfort in a lawsuit that promises to muddy the waters for open-source and proprietary vendors alike.

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One bright spot in the litigation is that open source is not involved. Microsoft uses the open-source JQuery project in Visual Studio. Perhaps WebXchange forgot to throw in a claim against JQuery as part of its Visual Studio lawsuit.

WebXchange is suing Microsoft–or, rather, three of its customers–for allegedly infringing its patents in Microsoft Visual Studio, as CNET reports. Just desserts? Nah. Microsoft rarely sues anyone, preferring instead to threaten to sue.

Regardless, WebXchange’s suit against Dell, FedEx, and Allstate for using Visual Studio is nuclear waste: by suing customers, WebXchange just made software licensing even uglier than it already was, making its own future business as difficult as it will become for Microsoft and every other vendor. Nice one, bozo. Suing customers–in this case–is always bad form and serves to hurt all players in the industry.

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Jul 30

News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media, which oversees all News Corp. Internet business, including MySpace.com, is expected to fall $100 million short of its ambitious $1 billion annual revenue goal, according to a Reuters report. While on News Corp.’s fiscal third-quarter earnings conference call, however, the News Corp chairman and chief executive reportedly called FIM’s business “very healthy” and promised “well over” $1 billion in revenue in fiscal 2009.

News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is optimisitic about Fox Interactive Media's revenue outlook in fiscal 2009.

Rupert Murdoch is admitting that the U.S. economy’s pressure on advertising budgets is putting the squeeze on News Corp.

Last month, FIM announced a restructuring that included the creation of an “Audience Network” unit that, according to a company statement, “will be to optimize monetization across FIM’s content network and for third-party publishers,” leveraging the company’s ad technology that can target ads based on interests. The new unit combined advertising technology, ad operations, and performance sales efforts into one unit.

News Corp. reported that its net profit rose to $2.7 billion, or 91 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31, from $871 million, or 27 cents per share, in the year-ago period, according to Reuters.

“There’s no doubt the consumer economy is stressed,” Reuters quoted Murdoch as saying. “You’re seeing it affected in advertising, more short-term planning, and booking.”

In addition to MySpace, other FIM networks include Photobucket, IGN Entertainment, and Fox Sports.

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Jul 29

Qumranet has been making waves for its innovative VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure). Qumranet’s SolidICE makes it easy to “offer remote PCs access to virtual desktops via a Web browser,” including Windows desktops.

In other words, Red Hat just got in the Windows game without having to get its hands dirty with the Microsoft operating system.

Finally, I still want to know why the Qumranet team decided to take its name from where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Inquiring Bible-savvy minds want to know. :-)

In a statement, Red Hat claims that it “can now deliver what virtualization-only vendors cannot: a comprehensive solution integrated with the operating system, which can drive down IT costs while simultaneously enhancing the flexibility and responsiveness of IT infrastructure.” Nice, but the the more interesting news embedded in the Qumranet acquisition is the Windows management technology that comes with it:

Such is the importance of virtualization. I’d argue that Qumranet was worth the hefty multiple.

Just four days after Red Hat closed its second quarter, the company has announced the acquisition of Qumranet, an open-source virtualization company, positioning the open-source leader to close many more successful quarters to come.

It will be interesting to see what Red Hat will do with the proprietary Qumranet technology. I’m also looking forward to seeing how Moshe Bar and the rest of the Qumranet management team fit into Red Hat’s corporate structure. (Moshe is a longtime entrepreneur who had previously been behind Qlusters.)

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Red Hat acquired Qumranet for $107 million in cash, according to the company, which is surprising, given Qumranet’s comparative lack of revenue, having only released its product in September of 2007.

The Qumranet acquisition also extends Red Hat’s virtualization solutions for managing Windows desktops. SolidICE is a high-performance, scalable desktop virtualization solution built specifically for virtual desktops, not simply a retrofit from server virtualization solutions. SolidICE is designed to enable a user’s Windows or Linux desktop to run in a virtual machine that is hosted on a central server.

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