Titled “Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (949785).” This bulletin affects Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 and is rated “important” for supported editions of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, [...]

Seeking clarification, I turned to Paul Ohm, a former federal prosecutor turned cyberlaw professor at the University of Colorado Law School and a noted expert on surveillance laws.
If [the sharing of data by niche telecom providers] is seen as allowing an end-around an otherwise clear prohibition in the SCA, Congress is likely to throw a [...]

• You know, we learned to make do without anything. To live on nothing. And this certainly influenced me.
• My family had many challenges in Russia. My father wasn’t able to work in his chosen field. Everything we had in Russia, we had to leave behind and start from scratch. This gave me a [...]

In a special edition of the Gillmor Gang, Steve Gillmor, Mike Arrington, Doc Searls, Dana Gardner, Robert Anderson, Robert Scoble and I discuss Microsoft’s decision to walk away from its bid to acquire Yahoo.
The consensus: Google is a big winner, Microsoft is not dead, and lives to bid another day, and Yahoo better [...]

“Events will be a major part of the application,” Martin said. “Event promoters, like radio and TV stations, entertainment venues, and others, can use eNotify to send out instant updates on events happening at a certain time, in a specific location, and to only those subscribers within proximity of the venue, if desired.”
eNotify will be [...]

Wolfgang Ziebart
Peter Bauer

Wolfgang Ziebart, who has run the company since 2004, is leaving on June 1 “due to different opinions on the future strategic orientation of the company,” Infineon said in a statement.

The company, which is based in Neubiberg, Germany, has about 43,000 employees and is one of Europe’s biggest chipmakers.
The CEO of German chipmaker [...]

Here’s another thing I’m going to be watching–piracy rates. Last quarter, the company noted an uptick in piracy rates after making some significant gains. With Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also made life for pirates somewhat less onerous.

The Windows business in particular will get attention after showing less than stellar results last quarter. Microsoft has [...]

Comcast notes that the median usage for most residential customers falls somewhere between 2GB and 3GB, a number that is regularly broken within a matter of hours and sometimes minutes by customers taking advantage of streaming HD video and online backup services. The company breaks down basic usage numbers similar to what’s seen on the [...]

And with an already high budget and Nintendo cornering the Wii software market to boot, the Wii development space is simply less attractive to developers.
So what gives? Is it marketing? Is it Nintendo’s relationship with developers? I think it may be partly both, but it goes far beyond relationships and marketing. Simply put, I think [...]

In fact, Barton has a long history of embracing more, not less, surveillance. Bills he voted for include the Real ID Act, the Patriot Act, and a proposal to expand Internet surveillance performed without a court order. He opposed a proposal to disclose federal agencies’ data mining to Congress. (Rep. Ron Paul, a true privacy [...]