Entries from April 2001

RIAA Challenges SDMI Attack. The US music industr…

Monday, April 30th, 2001

RIAA Challenges SDMI Attack. The US music industry are at it again. They have threatened Princeton researchers with legal action if they publish their paper on how they have cracked the SDMI digital watermarking scheme. Personally, if they could remove these watermarks with the small amount of information provided to them then the technology won’t [...]

Microsoft Tech Support vs. Psychic Friends Network…

Monday, April 30th, 2001

Microsoft Tech Support vs. Psychic Friends Network Microsoft Technical Support vs. The Psychic Friends Network: An interesting comparison of the technical support provided by Microsoft and a psychic helpline. Funny!

IM poised to become instant information tool – Tec…

Thursday, April 26th, 2001

IM poised to become instant information tool – Tech News – CNET.com “In a few weeks, a new “buddy” will appear on instant messaging lists that could substantially change the way information is distributed and retrieved on the Net”. Basically this appears to be an agent which can feed information to the user using teachniques [...]