Category Archives: Disc Publishing
May 11, 2012
Like other fast-developing economies in Asia, China skipped much of the land telephone line infrastructure investments that other countries spent decades deploying and moved almost directly to mobile infrastructure.
One might expect a similar “leapfrog” approach for digital content delivery infrastructure. But that’s not what’s happening when it comes to distributing digital medical records. The Chinese government is establishing standards that make optical discs a required distribution option for digital patient records for years to come. Continue reading »
April 16, 2012
There’s a growing paradox for business owners and IT: make important digital content more available, while at the same time maintaining more control over it.
Businesses need to reach their audiences – internal and external – on all of their devices. But files are growing in size (thanks especially to the surge in video content). Send more, faster and broader.
At the same time, the costs and risks of sensitive or valuable content being misplaced or misdirected is growing as fast or faster. And content is growing so large that big publishing “events” can take down networks. Continue reading »
March 27, 2012
The consumerization of IT is an oft-quoted trend in IT circles: how dramatic changes in employee digital behaviour are transforming how businesses manage their digital content.
It turns out the same behavior changes in criminals are transforming the legal system. As an example, a collection of digital evidence overwhelmingly convinced jurors in the recent Rutgers suicide case.
Sure, fingerprints and DNA remain central to fighting crime. But the tide is shifting, and digital evidence is more and more often the make-the-case content for investigators and prosecutors. Continue reading »
January 18, 2012
Electronic software distribution is not the panacea some software retailers may have hoped it would be, partly because customers still want a physical copy of what they purchase. But traditional “mail the disc” methods of distribution are, well, old-fashioned. Software retailers need another alternative. Continue reading »
January 13, 2012
From Caribbean cruises and rain-forest excursions to fantasy baseball camps, the market for selling experiences is a growth market. People love to live their dreams, even when it’s make-believe.
The businesses offering these experiences have found a way to add more value for their customers: they are recording and packaging the event with photos and videos so that they can be re-lived over and over. Continue reading »
November 17, 2011
The optical disc is the de facto standard in the law enforcement community for the collection and sharing of digital evidence. But there’s more to an evidence disc than what a PC burner and a Sharpie pen can provide.
Here’s what an evidence disc needs to successfully get your digital evidence from the field to the courtroom:
Permanent. Discs and labels Continue reading »
November 9, 2011
It’s easy to think about things in a black-and-white way. This simple view usually makes intuitive sense, but it can be misleading.
Take digital content delivery, for example. The black-and-white view is that physical delivery of content via optical disc is now being replaced in one fell swoop with online delivery. This oversimplified view masks an exciting trend that falls between old-fashioned DVD/Blu-ray physical inventories (think Blockbuster rental stores) and new-fangled content streaming (like Netflix Streaming) : on-demand physical content delivery. Continue reading »
September 19, 2011
Yesterday, the ugly combination of a whiffle ball tournament and my aging body brought me to Urgent Care. That’s my fractured fibula above.
I can show you this because the doctor sent me on my way with more than the usual prescription for pain medicine: he gave me a CD with my x-ray on it. Continue reading »
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