BRUCEB NEWS
Working Remotely: Splashtop Tips For Dual Monitors & Blurry Displays
A lot of you are working remotely, connecting to an office computer from a home computer or laptop. Here are some tips that can improve that experience - setting your office computer not to go to sleep, two tips for dual monitors, and a way to improve a blurry...
MEDIA JUKEBOX
Media Jukebox is the most heavily used program on my computer. If you’ve got more than a handful of mp3 files, it does a better job than any other program of organizing and...
SPAM
Suddenly the flood of unwelcome spam is at the top of everybody’s list. It’s so awful, so overwhelming and gross, that everyone assumes they’re being uniquely singled out. Trust...
RECORDING INDUSTRY SEEKING PERMISSION TO HACK YOUR COMPUTER
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., whose district includes part of Hollywood, is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, hack into...
THE NEXT STEP IN PERSONAL COMPUTING
Here’s an important one. My mind is buzzing trying to guess the implications of this. This comes from an e-mail newsletter put out by Windows & .NET magazine, summarizing an...
ROYALTY RATES SET FOR INTERNET RADIO
You’ll recall that the recording industry appeared to have won a one-sided mediation to set royalty rates for Internet radio broadcasts. Rates were chosen that were far higher...
VHS STARTS TO FADE AWAY
If you've been holding off on buying a DVD player, the time has come to face facts: VHS is dead. You've already noticed the shift at Costco, always a reliable indicator - the VHS...
AUDIOGALAXY SELLS OUT
AudioGalaxy decided to sell its soul. It settled with the recording industry and agreed to start making a serious effort to filter out copyrighted songs. This permits it to avoid...
XO BANKRUPTCY
XO Communication filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings today, as expected. It’s intended to be a reorganization with no disruption in services. Covad Communications went...
RECORD COMPANIES: FEAR OF MUSIC
The recording industry continues its relentless campaign to prevent us from actually hearing any of its products played out loud. The latest is the proposal floated in a cover...
ANTIVIRUS VENDORS AND SLEAZY PRESS RELEASES
The news from McAfee is alarming: a new virus can infect .JPG picture files; potentially no file type is safe to exchange in e-mail; maybe we should never share .JPGs by e-mail....
NAPSTER AND ITS PROGENY
For those of you that want a refresher, here’s a perfectly nice short article about Napster’s rise and fall, the record industry’s horrible online offerings to date, and the...
FRY’S ELECTRONICS AND OUTPOST.COM
This isn’t new, but I just discovered that Fry’s Electronics acquired Outpost.com late last year and is running the Outpost.com web site. Fry’s is famous for low prices, huge...
XO, STARBAND, AND OTHER BAD NEWS
The extraordinary collapse of the telecommunications industry continues apace. XO Communications has been trying to engineer an infusion of capital from two lenders that would...
CHINA BELIEVES EVERYTHING IT READS
In case you missed this in the paper a couple of days ago, here’s a story that’s absolutely priceless. The Beijing Evening News (circulation: 1.25 million) printed a...
THE END OF FREE E-MAIL
The days of free e-mail are drawing to a close. Yahoo, Lycos, and Hotmail have all started to change their free e-mail accounts to make it more likely that users will pony up a...