Archive for June 11th, 2007
According to London’s Financial Times, Apple is in advanced discussions with Hollywood movie studios about launching an online film-rental service to rival cable and satellite TV operators. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting the movie-rental deal, citing two studio executives familiar with the matter.Apple is reportedly pitching the rental services to Hollywood aggressively. Titles would rent for $2.99 for a 30-day period, then expire. There is no word on which studios might participate in the new venture. However, it is said that Viacom likes the concept, while Universal Studios opposes it.
In addition to television shows, Apple already sells old movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lions Gate Entertainment. Other than Disney, though, Apple has not been successful in securing new releases from major studios to peddle on its iTunes Music Store. Apple CEO Steve Jobs sits on Disney’s board.
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June 11th, 2007
On Monday, IBM launched a new online community, dubbed “Jazz,” at its annual Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. The Jazz.net portal aims to offer the open-source vibe in a closed-source setting.From Big Blue’s perspective, managing projects that span geographic and organizational boundaries is emerging as one of the top software delivery challenges. Facilitating greater team agility and alignment with evolving business requirements also compounds the challenge. IBM is betting its transparent approach to community development will find a warm welcome among enterprises.
“Open commercial software development is the next major innovation in collaborative engineering,” Dr. Danny Sabbah, general manager, IBM Rational Software, said in a statement. “IBM is taking software development to a new level, and through participation in the Jazz.net community, customers can influence the products they depend on for software delivery.”
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June 11th, 2007
On Thursday, Microsoft 
gave I.T. administrators a sneak peak of next week’s security updates. June’s Patch Tuesday will see six sets of software patches. Four of those six will fix critical flaws in Windows and related software.The critical security updates will fix bugs in Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Mail (the built-in e-mail client for Windows Vista), and other core Windows components. According to Microsoft’s security bulletins, the critical bugs, if left unpatched, could provide attackers with a way to execute code remotely on a victim’s machine.
Another update, related to Microsoft’s Office application suite, is rated “important,” which is the second-highest rating on Microsoft’s scale. Less-critical updates will fix vulnerabilities in Visio, Microsoft’s software for creating business and technical drawings, and Windows Vista.
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June 11th, 2007
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry Truman, 33rd US President
June 11th, 2007
