BRUCEB NEWS
The Facebook Antitrust Lawsuits
We have to talk about antitrust. That’s a cliché, of course – every blogger that wants attention knows that “antitrust” is guaranteed clickbait, a real audience-grabber. There might be other things on your mind, what with a pandemic still spiking and the holidays...
BLU-RAY & HD-DVD SECURITY BROKEN
High definition DVDs have always had two, and only two, purposes: to impose significant new barriers to your free use of the content on them by adding new layers of DRM; and to...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Happy Valentine's Day! Stuck for a gift? I'm sure a lot of you depend on Thinkgeek.com for your last minute holiday shopping, so you'll be relieved to know that Thinkgeek is all...
VISTA & SHADOW COPY
Windows Vista Business edition has one of those features that you might not need right away - but if you ever do need it, it will be a lifesaver.Vista Business (and Vista...
VIDEO MAY OVERWHELM INTERNET
Google is running more than 450,000 servers around the world. It's building "Project 02," which will be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, to be housed at a data...
WINDOWS VISTA BUSINESS
Strange but true: it is not easy to purchase a new computer with Windows Vista Business installed on it. It's virtually impossible to find Vista Business on any computer sold in...
NEW IMAGE FORMAT – HD PHOTO
The .JPG format is ubiquitous - everything supports it, everything displays it. Microsoft has spent six years creating a new format intended to replace .JPG in the hearts and...
WALMART, APPLE & DRM
WalMart announced a movie download service with the obligatory noncritical media coverage, focused on how darned exciting it is that all of the major studios have signed up to...
KODAK PRINTERS
Kodak has done so many things wrong in the last ten years that it's hard to trust its judgment, but it may be redefining the printer market today and doing us all a favor.Kodak...
GOODBYE PALM OS
The venerable Palm operating system is no more. It wasn't long ago that the term "Palm" was the very definition of a handheld PDA, and the Palm operating system was inseparable...
J RIVER MEDIA CENTER 12
J River Media Center 12 is a new version of my favorite music software. Try it! A thirty-day trial is free, and the program is well worth its modest cost.Many people use iTunes...
TIMESLIPS & VISTA COMPATIBILITY
Vista compatibility will be hit or miss for the next year. Some business-critical software won't run on Windows Vista; I'll be doing what I can to help businesses learn that...
VISTA/XP COMPARISON
There's no shortage of lists of Vista features but this is a particularly good one - with a minimum of fuss, the chart in the middle compares Windows Vista to Windows XP, feature...
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER & IE7
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 includes wonderful tools for remote access - Remote Web Workplace provides access to office desktop computers, and Outlook Web Access makes...
WINDOWS VISTA BASICS
Windows Vista is here.After using it for two months and studying hard, here are some of the conclusions I've reached.Windows Vista is a wonderful operating system. There are...
QUICKBOOKS AND VISTA
Here's the latest word from Intuit about running Quickbooks under Vista, and it's not pretty.Quickbooks 2007 will run correctly, or so they say.There's no chance of getting...