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RealNetworks released its controversial RealDVD movie ripping application last week but within days removed the program from its Web site due to a legal feud with the Motion Picture Association of America. RealNetworks provided TechNewsWorld with a final prelease version of the RealDVD software last week in consideration of a new product review. The app lets you save a copy of a DVD to your PC’s hard drive. It only works with a DVD, not content saved to a DVR or other digital media devices.

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RealDVD Works Great - If You Can Get It

For all the potential of the Internet, there are times when I consider it a cesspool of misinformation, ignorant opinion and faked imagery. I also find it confusing and untrustworthy. Then someone reminds me how valuable it is to have checks and balances, not only on the government but also on the media. They remind me how glorious it is to enjoy another worldview and to examine what we think through others’ eyes. A group of college students from the Middle East and North Africa visited the editorial board this week.

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The Web’s Perspective Diversity Paradox

If the Chinese government isn’t careful, its forthcoming Beijing Olympics could rival the 1936 and 1968 Summer Games for infamy and a message that ultimately backfires on the host country. That warning comes from human rights groups and Internet free speech advocacy organizations following news this week that Beijing would restrict Internet use for international journalists covering the games, despite what the media was previously told by the International Olympic Committee.

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Freedom of Speech Advocates Torch China, IOC Over Web Censorship

If you told Rhett Frandsen 10 years ago he’d end up being a professional widget-maker, he probably would have called you crazy. “Back then, widgets were only something you read about in your economics book,” Frandsen laughed. “Until Apple coined the phrase, everybody had sort of agreed upon the fact that it wasn’t anything.” Webster’s still agrees: Look up “widget” and you’ll find “an unnamed article considered for purposes of hypothetical example.” Within the Web-savvy world, of course, the word has taken on new meaning — and that meaning has taken on a large role in Frandsen’s life.

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MediaForge: Finding the Way of the Widget

Digital billboards and digital signage networks in retail are driving the rapid expansion of outdoor/out-of-home advertising, rivaling the Internet as the fastest-growing advertising medium. What’s fueling this growth? The ability to reach the elusive consumers while they are out of home, and especially while they are shopping. And the ability to customize each message to audiences at any location and even at any area within a location is another unique value that it brings to marketers.

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Riding the Digital Signage Wave the SaaS Way