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Napster president slams ring-tone rip-offs

Napster president slams ring-tone rip-offsBell ringing on cell phone ring tone subscriptionsMobile phone ring tones have become a global industry, worth US$ 4 billion. Ring tones are offered at considerable cost, using marketing methods that have been called dubious. The British High Court recently upheld adjudication by the Advertising Standards...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Advertising & Promotion, developer, investor, Ring Tones, phone, mobile, mobile phone, Advertising Standards Authority, advertisement, Napster Inc., Acon Digital Media

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Mobile entertainment faces issues

Mobile entertainment faces issuesROKr is just catching up to the phone/music player market!!!!You stated "Samsung's SGH i300 and Sony's Walkman W800 are examples of handsets that play digital music files. But as of yet, getting music onto the phones has not been easy."For close to a year now, I have...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Advertising Standards Authority, investor, Acon Digital Media, Ring Tones, phone, Motorola ROKR, mobile, cell phone, music

Discussion threads 2005-09-27

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EA: Wii graphx sux

The Advertising Standards Authority ASA in the UK has fragged an ad for EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. The ASA claim that the ad was misleading because it used footage from the Xbox 360 version of the game. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Game, Footage, Advertisement, Electronic Arts Inc., Nintendo Wii, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-17

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureGreat post Paul.It gave me an idea. We should make a concerted effort to inform all business managers everywhere that disgruntled employees sometimes shop their employer/ex-employer for unlicensed software, and it is as important a consideration as having software that actually works. The solution can...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Desktops, information technology, software, Murph, PC, PC environment, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Apple: Don't believe the iPhone 3G truth

Don't believe what Apple says in its iPhone 3G advertisements, even though the company claims it's not lying. In a nutshell, that's Apple's legal response to a lawsuit alleging misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G. You follow? The corporation's nine-page legal...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK

Remember the kerfuffle over Apple's "3G" television ad for the iPhone? In it the company demonstrates the speed of the iPhone on AT&T's 3G network. As it turns out the ad was edited to exaggerate the speed of the iPhone 3G and the speed shown is impossible to replicate in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Apple Inc., TV, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Open source as a government mandate

Open source as a government mandateGovernment mandateWe're always better off when government tells us what to do. Removing choice eliminates the mistakes we would make and provides everyone the wisdom far greater than our own of those who have chosen to work for the government.In fact, many of us...

Tags: Vertical industries, open source, government mandate, open standard

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

It must be a rough day in Cupertino

They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., TechMeme, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, 3G, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

The social media corporate identity crisis

The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Twitter, Joel Postman, Popeyes Chicken, Q., Branding, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?

Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?False statements can be VERY harmful...especially if expressed by a popular student or someone perceived as "honest." I put honest in quotes because I've met many people who are very assertive not aggressive in their statements, yet have rarely told the truth or the...

Tags: INTERNET, Free Speech

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?Not hard to understand[i]Whether or not the final word comes down today — and launches the antitrust-investigation phase of the proposed MicroHoo combination — my question remains: Why are Yahoo management and many Yahoo employees so dead-set against becoming part of Microsoft?[/i]Come...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Unix, virus

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Apple announces UK iPhone partner: O2 (Updated)

Apple announces UK iPhone partner: O2 UpdatedAny good providers?Doesn't EVERY article about cell phone providers mention a core group that feels that {insert provider here} is horribly inept and lucky to be in business? What does this tell us? It sure seems like there are enough dropped calls,...

Tags: Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Telecom & Utilities, partnership, O2 Plc., 3G, battery, phone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

What Jobs' iApology reveals about the iPhone

What Jobs' iApology reveals about the iPhoneJobs let the iPod's success get to his head[i]Lesson 3: The smartphone market is brutal.In Apple's other product groups–the Mac and iPod–the company commands a premium.[/i]I've been saying [b]all[/b] along that the cell phone market is a [b]totally[/b] different market than what Jobs faced...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Digital music, Digital media, job, Dell Computer Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'

Microsoft tried to muck with anti-Linux 'facts'Get the FactsThat program has never played any decision in our purchasing.We are mostly a Microsoft shop here with a few Linux boxes performing specific roles.The Linux boxes the few we have need rebooting far less often and require less daily attention than our...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Linux, advertisement, server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire Web

Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire WebI kind of wonder.Not that I really trust IBM but this does seem kind of out of character with their other behavior of late. Could this be IBM's way of trying to get the idea of...

Tags: Patent Laws, Prognosticators, Web, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, IBM Corp., patent, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-27

UK VoIP user fights big telco over "free calls" offer - and wins!

I, like you, have had it to here with fine print nickel-and-diming.Want to hear a true story of a customer who won?Our sister site ZDNet UK has an interesting piece about a British user of British Telecom's BT Communicator VoIP package.The unnamed user had a Broadband Basic package, which gave...

Tags: British Telecommunications, BT Communicator, allowance

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Microsoft ordered to pay Lindows court fees

Microsoft ordered to pay Lindows court fees$1,600? BuwahahahaYou have to be kidding...Hot DogJohnny Paycheck for a lawyer in Belgium.$1060

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, TCP/IP, Now Let, Microsoft Corp., Linspire

Discussion threads 2004-06-02

It's time to can ICANN

It's time to can ICANNStandards are the real gate keeperThe fact is that Site Finder just jumped up and down and did some really horrible things to the Internet while it was running.1) Broke spam filters. Many spam filters use a check of the listed from domain as...

Tags: SECURITY, Sonia, VeriSign Inc., ICANN, SiteFinder, Internet

Discussion threads 2003-12-02