Archive for May 2007

How to Solve DRM Issues With a Digital Signature (update)

31 May 2007 / 0 Comments

This is an update to my post How to Solve DRM Issues with a Digital Signature published in February 8th, 2007.

In my previous post I suggested a simple and fair solution to solve issues with lock-in DRM: digitally sing purchased songs but let users use them freely.

About one month ago, Apple announced the availability of […]

Microsoft Introduces Surface

30 May 2007 / 0 Comments

Last year I wrote a post about Jeff Han’s multi-touch technology that was rumored to be used by Apple to reborn the tablet computer. Since then, Apple has rolled-out the iPhone; one of the first consumer device to use a multi-touch technology. No one really knows what will be revealed during WWDC07 but a […]

Why No Internet Is Like No Electricity

22 May 2007 / 2 Comments

During the last couple of month I’ve been experiencing pretty bad Internet conditions: frequent losses of connexion, ultimate slowness and huge pings. I’ve been moving to different places so I had to rely exclusively on open Wifi spots around; it was a definitely frustrating experience.

Everything I do is online: reading news, writing, coding, being organized, […]

We’re All Waiting for WWDC07

17 May 2007 / 0 Comments

Well, at least Mac fans. In 3 weeks time, the WWDC07 will be held in San Francisco. Leopard (the next major version of MacOS X) will be the main attraction and the opening keynote by Steve Jobs will be entertaining as usual.

According to this ad, a beta of Leopard will be given to developers. I’m […]

Microsoft Introduces a Dynamic Language Runtime for .NET

5 May 2007 / 2 Comments

Three years ago, I wrote an article entitled Why Virtual Machines are a Bad Idea. My concern was about virtual machines (the JVM and CLR) and the issue of efficient implementation of dynamic languages.

A couple of days ago, during the MIX07 event, Microsoft introduced Silverlight — a Flash-like programming environment powered by a small .NET […]