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Rotten Apple gives Beatles agida

Right about now, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is flicking his nose with his thumb at the music industry and saying "Whose your Daddy now?" In addition to getting the top four music labels to knuckle under to his rules for selling music on the Internet, Jobs has beat back a...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Corps

Blog posts 2006-05-08

Beatles tunes being prepped for download

Beatles tunes being prepped for downloadMaybe Disney should just buy Apple Corpsthen Steve can do whatever he wants to!Unbelievable how slow they are to the party at Apple Corps.Will it be on iTunes?Hard to say when the lawsuit is awaiting the judges decision. Tghe Beatles will have the choice...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Yoko Ono, Apple Inc., Beatles, Apple Corps

Discussion threads 2006-04-13

The Beatles in court (again) with Apple

The Beatles in court again with AppleApple Computer made an agreement,they should be forced to live by it.Apple vs. AppleIf Paul McCartney had signed up with Itunes, he could have possibly negotiated a deal where a penny of two from each Beatles down load would have gone to his and...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple iTunes, Beatles, Apple Inc., Apple Corps

Discussion threads 2006-03-31

Apple and Apple Corps: Can you work it out

Apple and Apple Corps: Can you work it outWaste of resourcesApple Corps. must be very bored! They are wasting resources of Apple and themselves here. I believe that this "business" of suing is getting out of hand and is purely laywer greed in action. Maybe I'll think twice...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Corps

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

Apple and Apple Corps: Can you work it out

In January of 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh and an innovative and arresting television advertisement, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down). In the ad, a Big Brother (Orwell's 1984) figure on a huge screen speaks about "gardens of pure ideology, one people, one cause" to a...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Beatles, Apple Corps

Blog posts 2006-03-30

Apple Corps: Let it be...

Steve Jobs took on the music and film industry, built a walled garden around Apple's DRM and iPod platform, became Disney's biggest shareholder and now has to deal with bringing the Beatles into line with the Apple Corps v. Apple Computer trademark lawsuit. Meanwhile Apple Corps is living in the...

Tags: Digital media, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Corps

Blog posts 2006-03-30

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Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Microsoft breaks Firefox

IE Welded into WindowsIE is welded into the Windows Operating System,that is why Windows is so insecure and proneto viruses/worms.They thought by making IE basically explorer.exein concept they would ruin any competitor likeNetscape well they did in a way.Interesting part of it is, they failed becauseFirefox is the most popular...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Apple shipping new jailbreak-proof iPhone 3GS

hasince they used the work impossible i'll give them 1 month. That is, one month until the figure out how to jail break that sucker, may be 2.If people are able to figure out how to make their own hackintosh computer I'm pretty sure they will be able to...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what wasn't announced

800 lb GorillaThe Gorilla not being mentioned is why the Beatles aren't in iTunes. This was the alignment of the planets, the day of days to bring Apple Corps library into the digital age of distribution.Sam "Sour Grapes" DiazApple puts a camera in the iPod nano and you write "No...

Tags: TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., TV, Apple iTunes, Joe Consumer, camera, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Munster: Jobs to appear on 9/9/9

I hope so.I haven't see Steve Jobs in flesh for awhile now. Also it would be interesting to see Steve with Ringo and Paul that I seen a similar clip for on the Apple Corps website for release of something on that date also.Who knows if that's a woman on...

Tags: job

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9

already predictedNo, we didn't hear it here first. Merlin Mann's been predicting this particularly the Yellow Submarine iPod since 2007. Give credit where credit's due.RE: Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9Interesting theory. It would be nice to finally see the Beatles on iTunes since they clearly are a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Merlin Mann, Beatles, conspiracy theory

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Conspiracy theory: Yellow Submarine iPod touch on 9/9/9

I have predict that Apple will finally announce a partnership with The Beatles and its label, Apple Corps Ltd., at its media event on September 9, 2009. Why? The date. by Jason D. O'Grady

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Conspiracy Theory, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...

Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhones

See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhonesLater than Apple?[i]because they always do what apple does only later and worse.[/i]Better check that timeline of yours. HTC, Nokia, and Samsung all had full screen touch screen cell phones [b]before[/b] Apple did. Sorry but history doesn't support you, it is...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Touch Pro, Palm Treo, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order

Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on orderRock on Maine! [nt][b][/b]RE: Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order"Imagine going to a job where the company provides you with a laptop for 3 years and then switching jobs, only to find that...

Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Macintosh, job

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years

The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. ...

Tags: Billing, IAC/InterActive Corp., Billing System, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?Open Source it!The beauty of open source technologies and hiring skilled talent not people who want to haul in a bunch of proprietary software the extorts tens of thousands of dollars for nothing on return.Having skills to develop and maintain your own infrastructure is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

iPhone users don't use device for work, study says

iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier

Discussion threads 2009-04-28