EU Wants to Cut IE from Windows

The European Union is now complaining about Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows, stemming from a complaint by Opera in 2007. They claim that Microsoft is unfairly using its market dominance to distribute Internet Explorer. This is the statement they issued:

The evidence gathered during the investigation leads the Commission to believe that the tying of Internet Explorer with Windows, which makes Internet Explorer available on 90 percent of the world's PCs, distorts competition on the merits between competing web browsers insofar as it provides Internet Explorer with an artificial distribution advantage which other web browsers are unable to match.

The Commission is concerned that through the tying, Microsoft shields Internet Explorer from head to head competition with other browsers which is detrimental to the pace of product innovation and to the quality of products which consumers ultimately obtain.

In addition, the Commission is concerned that the ubiquity of Internet Explorer creates artificial incentives for content providers and software developers to design websites or software primarily for Internet Explorer which ultimately risks undermining competition and innovation in the provision of services to consumers.

It seems similar to anti-trust lawsuits from long ago, that completely failed against Microsoft. Microsoft has yet to issue a public statement on this matter. However, the EU are saying that this case is completely unrelated to the 2002 Washinton D.C. antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft. Will the case go through and win? Unlikely. However, the EU is willing to take serious measures, and possibly measures similar to what they did with Windows Media Center.
But let's not forget that EU has some support from Opera. Opera's chief executive has long been a Microsoft Critic, and will undoubtedly find some excuses to take IE off of Windows, and maybe even other programs too. It's unlikely for Opera to really get any market share from this anyway, because firefox is the 2nd most popular browser in Europe with over 30% share. Perhaps the EU shouldn't really be chasing microsoft now, seeing as they've already decided to unbundle some good programs on Windows 7, whereas apple and linux are just stuffing as many apps as they can.

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TopTechWire Takes over BlitzTech Blog

It's been long since the last post here at Blitztech, but we're coming to the end of the BlitzTech Blog, because TopTechWire is taking over our postings and all of our work.
It's already been announced over at TopTechWire, and everything is set to go! So, if you want to read more from BlitzTech blog, then just head over to TopTechWire for their news, instead of us.

For those of you who might forget, or who haven't yet made the switch, we're going to keep BlitzTech up and occasionally have posts depending on what we feel like. However, we will no longer function as a technology news site, neither will we do what we usually do.
We didn't stop blitztech blog for no reason: We believe TopTechWire can better provide for our readers, and there was no need to duplicate their purpose, so we're going to let them take us over.

As far as what will happen with the blog under their control, well it's their control, and there's nothing we can do about it. At least BlitzTech Blog will stay up, instead of having a redirect or anything like that.
I should also mention that most of the valuable posts here have also been imported into their blog, so you can access it there. And for simplicity, all of BlitzTech's original posts are labeled as such, for easy access.

I hope you all enjoyed reading BlitzTech, and hope that TopTechWire will be able to continue our legacy!

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BlitzTech Blog is back for December 2008

Hello folks, it's been a while since the latest post here, and I do apologize for such, but we seem to be back on track, although perhaps with not as much vigor as previous. However, with this tidbit of information, I should tell everyone that we may be moving this blog to another location (I don't mean WordPress, just that a different URL on blogger with a new name).
Before that time comes, we may not update as much as previously when we first started. Don't worry about our feeds as we'll take full care of it, as I'll frequently post updates on our movement.

Thank you to all our loyal readers.

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Reviews of Automotive Schools in the USA

Automotive jobs involving autos in the USA are projected to grow faster than other occupations, and finding the right school can be a difficult and time-consuming task but you may never get the right school for you.
It's a large field that is continually expanding, and sometimes education will play an enormous role in helping you to get the job that you want, in the auto sector.

If you want high quality automotive technology schools, then just click the link I provided you, and request information after choosing a school near you! This is a website that provides information to you when looking for a good school. They review and recommend the best and most comprehensive programs in the best schools related to whatever you want to work on.
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Just go to the website now, and find a school near you with the right kind of program for you.

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RealDVD pulled temporarily by fed judge in MPAA lawsuit

Recently, RealNetwork's new RealDVD software was released, following an onslaught of legal problems about the software's ability to create a copy of DVDs for personal use. The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) decided to sue them for allowing the burning of DVDs and circumventing the DVD protection, thus pirating the movie, and possibly allow further piracy by releasing it onto the web. They asked for a restraining order on the product to prevent RealNetworks from further selling it and stop the piracy that RealDVD could be causing.

In our coverage of the issue, we told you that RealDVD sued first, then MPAA sued back. MPAA had said

"RealNetworks' RealDVD should be called StealDVD," Greg Goeckner, executive vice president and general counsel for the MPAA, said in a statement. "RealNetworks knows its product violates the law and undermines the hard-won trust that has been growing between America's movie makers and the technology community."

While RealDVD had fought against them, claiming their product was not violating anything, and in fact added extra layers of Digital Rights Management to the copies made.

Now, a federal judge has asked RealNetworks to temporarily discontinue the distribution of their RealDVD product, at least until the next court session.

"We temporarily suspended distribution of the product until tomorrow," said Seattle-based RealNetworks' spokesman Ryan Luckin.

The MPAA said they were prohibited from commenting on the case.

Currently, the RealDVD product has been pulled from the website, and the link was removed, and it now says

"Rest assured, we will continue to work diligently to provide you with software that allows you to make a legal copy of your DVDs for your own use."

As I said earlier, piracy is a growing concern for the MPAA, because they fear that piracy will increase and becoming easier because customers will be able to illegally make copies of their content, and then keep a movie after they rent it by using a product such as RealDVD. Although this may or may not be the case, (RealNetworks says otherwise), piracy is definitely a major concern here. They are concerned that if RealDVD can win this case, and make it legal to make copies of DVDs on people's hard drives, then more products similar to RealDVD could be made, and causing a host of problems for the MPAA, and with piracy in general even in other industries.
RealDVD is saying that their case was preceeded by the case of DVD Copy Control Association v. Kaleidescape. The MPAA argues back that their software is merely getting around copyright protection.

It's still unclear who will win this case, but if RealNetworks can win it, then this could be an incredible step towards more free movie content and may affect other industries too. Undoubtedly, RealDVD could be exploited for purposes relating to piracy by experienced hackers.

Tags: RealDVD, RealNetworks, MPAA, lawsuit, Copyright protection, DRM, copyright management, DVD, burn DVD, piracy, video piracy, The BlitzTech Blog

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Search ad revenues still climbs, no sign of slowing down

With the latest financial problems at Wall Street and the credit crunch, one would really think the online advertising industry would start slowing down. However, this doesn't seem to be the case so far, but there is yet to come.
Here's a bit of what CNET said about it:

Despite an economic turndown, online advertising--and search in particular--is managing to keep its market intact, according to reports on Tuesday by an industry trade group and Wall Street analyst.

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet advertising revenues rose 15.2 percent, to $11.5 billion during the first six months of the year, compared with the same period last year. And search advertising grabbed a larger piece of the share, accounting for 44 percent of the market--up 3 percentage points.

Search advertising generated nearly $5.1 billion during the first half of the year, up 24 percent from a year ago. Display advertising, meanwhile, also grew at a double-digit pace of 19 percent to $3.8 billion over the course of the first half of the year.

(Credit: Interactive Advertising Bureau)

But what about the third quarter and the market meltdown during the early days of the fourth quarter?

Two players in online advertising say conditions are remaining stable, according to a Tuesday report by JPMorgan analyst Imran Khan.

Search engine marketing (SEM) companies such as Didit and Reprise Media report that third-quarter search budgets were up, mainly due to a shift from more traditional marketing to search advertising.

Well, obviously the search advertising industry isn't going anywhere anytime soon. However, things could still change according to the way the economy is going right now. It's pretty foolish to think that the credit crunch will have no effect on the online advertising industry, because it will affect a lot of new companies, and even bigger companies, because they have to start going into the bunker mode, and one of the first places that they can start cutting is advertising.

True, there seems to be evidence that advertising is still yet climbing, but this could be due to the changes in search advertising itself, now including more industries, so as to gain revenue from a bigger source.

Tags: Internet Marketing, Marketing, Advertising, online ads, search engines, search ads

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Obama makes 6 Times more Spam than McCain, Palin also leads Biden

One must wonder during the elections, that who is really winning? Whether or not the spam levels of Seneator Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin, is an indicator of that, it is definitely interesting.

A recent report at PC Magazine states that in a study by Secure Computing, Sen. Barack Obama (during september)"easily topped the use of his opponent, Sen. John McCain, by 6 to 1."
Gov. Sarah Palin on the other hand, won over her rival "Sen. Joe Biden, by a ratio of 5 to 4 during the month of September".
Obama and Palin then, obviously are winning the "spam debate", as they have much more spam than their rivals. This massive spam difference between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, may be telling us who the the online world is talking about. (and who the spammers like most)

Apparently, the spam levels massively increased at the time of the Republican National Convention on Sept. 3.
Still, the spam itself doesn't really mean anything, and if anything, still uses as many provocative words and phrases as possible to get readers to click and open the source email.
And in the case of Sen. Obama,

"Though the spam message content itself is nonsensical, the basic themes of the Obama email content does tend to revolve around the shallow factors that are espoused in the mainstream media as central campaign issues: race, disputes with Clinton, messianic oratory, and FOX news smears," Secure Computing wrote. "The McCain spam subjects are equally driven by shallow media propaganda, revolving around age and wealth."

And in the online news world, PC Magazine says,

"By comparison, news stories citing Obama or McCain favored McCain, 10 to 9. Web sites mentioning Obama outrank those that cite McCain, 3 to 2. But the spam associated with Sarah Palin is closer to the news stories or Web sites mentioning Palin, both of which outstrip Biden citations by 7 to 2."

With all this spam, one wonders what might be coming next? Secure Computing says that this next month of October, could see the uprising of spam relating to either the banks which were "either were taken over or went under, such as Wachovia and Washington Mutual."
Oddly enough, there seems to also been an increase in spam that has no real meaning to it, or "gibberish spam", which could mean problems relating to the spam software, or something else.

Malware has also been spread in the form of a certain video about Sen. Obama. Be careful when receiving such messages, and it's best to just ignore them.
Spam is always changing, and it's going to change along with current events. Perhaps the level of spam is indicating to us what are the hot topics online, and what isn't being talked about a lot. It may not show what the election results will be, but it's definitely something interesting to know.

Tags: Election 2008, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Spam, Joe Biden, John McCain, Election Results, Election Spam, BlitzTech Blog

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New Investment Oppourtunities with Inner 8

With the recent economic issues and such, like the Wall Street Collapse and the credit crunch, many people are finding it hard to sustain themselves well.
What they need is to look at new opportunities to create income, and also a secure way of doing it, especially in light of problems in the financial sector at Wall Street. With the recent bailout plan by the U.S. Government, there is definitely hope with the economy going back up and strong, but we can't rely on it.

That's why I think Inner 8 is such a great opportunity to be seized! With Inner8, it's real easy to start an investment, but you can also rest assured that you have full control of your investment.
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By using their service, you can learn, but also keep control with a private community made up of you, and other selected investors. All you need to do is sign up and create a network, and start getting valuable advice from the experts, so you can create highly informed decisions with your investments, without being bossed around by the "gurus". True investors have a broad understanding of investing, and can act on their own. So stop letting your broker do EVERYTHING for you, and start getting good advice instead.

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Incoming Updates Blog | BlitzTech Blog

Recently, we implemented many changes, including a new site policies page, and I have reason to believe that we might be adding many more policies to what we have on there so far. That's why I'm taking this opportunity to let you all know that I will change the format of it, so I can list each individual policy with a link to it, instead of listing all of it on the same page. This makes it look cleaner and easy to go through.

We also have changed certain aspects of the blog that are less noticeable such as the ---END OF POST--- beneath every post. It seems weird, but it's there to let you know that anything below it, is actually a part of the webpage's html and not inside the content of the posts.
We've also changes the site title and description, but I suspect it might undergo even more changes. I've encountered a problem with the subscribe via email widget at the top of the page, and I'm unsure of how it can be fixed. I will get back to this, as it isn't very important how it looks, as long as it's available.
In the future, I may also post certain information that is only available to feed readers and email subscribers.

That pretty much sums up what we've done so far, and I'll continue to post updates on our blog here. Stay tuned for our monthly huge update later this month!

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