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RealDVD case; Vista; Geospiza; Amazon in education; and more
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser acknowledged in a preliminary court hearing that the company's RealDVD technology could let consumers copy rental DVDs, but he said the company wants to "steer people away from that," reports CNet News.com.
RealNetworks is fighting with movie studios over whether consumers can legally copy DVDs to their computer hard drives. Wired reports computer scientist Robert Schumann testified that RealDVD software circumvents encryption technology designed to prevent copying.
Microsoft last night released Windows Vista Service Pack 2, a big bundle of fixes and updates for the PC operating system. Details in this official Windows blog post.
Amazon Web Services today announced a new program called AWS in Education, extending its cloud-computing offering to teachers, researchers and others in education.
On a related note, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Applied Biosystems and Seattle-based Geospiza announced what they are calling the life-science industry's frst "genomic analysis cloud-computing solution." It uses Amazon Web Services.
PathGuide Technologies, a Seattle maker of warehouse management software, is celebrating its 20th year in business this week.
Cozi's family scheduling and calendar service is embedded on the Dell Studio One 19 PC, a touch-enabled computer.
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