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 Friday, November 22, 2002
Discovery Capital. Accumulating (aggregating/accruing?) "discovery capital" -- building a Remarkable Sensor Network How can our companies discover opportunities faster than our competitors? How can we be more perceptive about future difficulties? [UNBOUND SPIRAL]
3:08:49 PM  #  
Radical Strategy Innovation. Hamel Fast Company Radical innovators challenge the dogmas and the orthodoxies of the incumbents. My two cents. Apply it to his own logic! Overturn your strategists and their assumptions. [UNBOUND SPIRAL]
3:08:11 PM  #  
Future of Wi-Fi: Fast, Fast, Fast. Alternate flavors of 802.11b, the wireless networking standard millions know and love, offer speed -- lots of it. But all is not coming up roses. By Will Wade. [Wired News]
3:07:29 PM  #  
Microsoft: Peer-to-Peer beats Digital Rights Management any day.

MS Researchers say P2P will always beat DRM. According to The Register (File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers), a paper from a group of Microsoft researchers says that "darknet" file swapping will always be able to share pirated files, no matter what DRM technology copyright holders use. The paper goes through the various options like watermarking and explains why they all will fail. This true even for DRM built into the hardware. The paper concludes that the only way for corporations to compete is to make their services more convenient and full-featured. We have known this all along, but it is pretty amazing to hear some Microsoft people say it. This paper is just the thing to refer to when the next congressional bill comes up to make DRM manditory, just explain to them that even MS says it won't work. [infoAnarchy]

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3:05:32 PM  #