Media

Long NYT feature by Ashlee Vance on Microsoft’s counter-piracy measures around the world. Seems crazy to me how much of it revolves around physical media — counterfeit CDs, DVDs, and holographic stickers. ★ 

I was flipping through old DF entries last night, and this one caught my eye. In July 2005, HP was still reselling an HP-co-branded iPod. Seems like a long time ago.Update: John Nack, via Twitter: “5 years ago, Adobe had yet to own Flash.̶...

Not sure what’s going on, but Fortune published its own lengthy, well-sourced report on the Mark Hurd/Jodie Fisher/HP saga, on the same day as the WSJ. Both reports are interesting, and contain different information. The timing seems beyond coin...

Lots of new details on the Hurd/HP saga in this report from the WSJ:An investigation by The Wall Street Journal into Mr. Hurd’s sudden ouster reveals that the letter contained an explosive allegation: that in early 2008, Mr. Hurd told Ms. F...

New Safari Extension that replaces certain popular Flash audio players with the HTML5 <audio> element. ★ 

My thanks to the .TV top-level domain name for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. If you’re publishing video online, what possible better top-level domain could you have? My friend and The Talk Show co-host Dan Benjamin uses it for his bu...

Spot-on analysis from Marco Arment:The problem is that hardware manufacturers and tech journalists assume that the hardware just needs to exist, and developers will flock to it because it’s possible to write software for it. But that’s not wh...

Even if you personally have no need for a UI mockup preview app, it’s worth checking out the website just for the cool magnifying loupe. (Via Matt Drance.) ★ 

Kevin Tofel on rumors that Chrome OS netbooks are set to start shipping soon:The problem: The mobile computing landscape has changed since that announcement, causing me to wonder if there’s really a need for Chrome OS devices, or if Android has...

Hugo Miller, reporting for Bloomberg:Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail, said three people fa...

Shayndi Raice, reporting for the WSJ:In a direct shot at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Dell Inc. plans to move its 25,000 employees over to its own line of smartphones and then aggressively market a service to help other companies do ...

Great idea from Brian Stucki at Macminicolo — a mirror for sites I link to from DF:All you have to do is change the domain name in the link. So, if the link is “daringfireball.net/linked/page” then you can use “fireballed....