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According to a report in the Irish Times (sub required), the collapse of Medialab Europe is to be investigated by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The reasons for the collapse and the contract with MIT will come under scrutiny.
Tags: IrishBlogs, MedialabEurope, MLE
Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with 7 comments.
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Internetnews.com reports that Microsoft is getting involved in Television over IP. It has come to an agreement with Alcatel to combine Alcatel’s access and integration technologies with Microsoft’s IPTV software. I don’t particularly have any great respect for Microsoft as a software company but this could make the problems that RIAA and MPAA have with p2p downloading insignificant. When it comes to conditional access systems, Microsoft hasn’t clue zero.
Microsoft probably sees this a way of quitely infiltrating its Digital Rights Management systems into domestic equipment. However the interesting aspect is that IPTV may become a lot more important in the near future as it would provide a method of legitimising the distribution of movies and television programmes. The big problem is the fact that copyright areas still dominate the television and movie business.
Tags: Microsoft , IPTV , MPAA , RIAA , Conditional Access Systems, DRM
Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with comments disabled.
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It seems that the Irish Internet Association has launched a cheaper membership option to try to bring in more members. The Associate membership of IIA is priced at 95 Euros per year and is aimed at designers, developers, consultants working in internet related fields according to IIA’s blurb. Exactly the kind of people who couldn’t be bothered to pay the expensive full membership fee in the first place. The associate membership will entitle the member to discounts on IIA seminars and events. Most of the events and seminars seem to be in Dublin or Cork so they are irrelevant to those in the internet industry outside those places. Ironically it was not possible to sign up for this new associate membership level as the IIA website had not been updated to include it yet. The IIA now has Corporate level membership at 495 Euros, SME level membership at 350 Euros, Individual membership at 220 Euros and Associate membership at 95 Euros. The 95 Euro membership does seem to be the more acceptable option.
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Written by John McCormac on February 23rd, 2005 with 3 comments.
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