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- Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster
- On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?they better get this rightif microsoft doesn't get this right, they will get an even more mud thrown at them and their image will be damaged beyond repair. vista has left a horrible taste in people mouth and crappy stores will only make it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Monitors & displays, Advertising & Promotion, vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, photocopier
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- How to get more from your WiFi digital photo frame
- I don't know why anyone would buy a digital photo frame without WiFi uploading capabilities (well, I suppose if they didn't have a WiFi network...). Remotely uploading photos to a frame is such a brilliant way of sharing photos with far-away friends and family, especially the...
- Tags: Digital Photograph, Wi-Fi, Photograph, FrameChannel, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else
- Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or elseOh, just brilliant. Great work, guys.Wahh, wahh! The music industry is losing money! How shall we fix this tragedy?What an idea: Let's give them legislative control over our children's education! Good thinking, Bush!Now, not only can MTV-and-pals rid them of all moral fiber and...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital media, music industry, Higher Education, MPAA, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Thoughts on Apple TV
- Im on one of my periodic trips to Mountain View, home of Microsofts Silicon Valley Campus and site of Googles city-wide WiFi experiment that never seems to work (believe me, Ive tried). This is good timing, as Los Angeles is starting to go through its yearly journey through hells lake...
- Tags: Television, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Digital Media, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- New Year - New Blogger
- Hello readers. My name is Alan Graham and Ill be taking over this area of the ZDNet blogosphere from the previous tenant, the excellent Richard MacManus. In the past seven years Ive appeared in numerous publications and books, and I also created the worlds first book dedicated to blogs as...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Blogging, IM, Ive, blog, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Macs...Why bother?
- I asked all of my students yesterday how many of them owned a Macintosh. The answer of course was zero. One of my interns happens to be a Mac guy and swears by it with the fervor only a Mac guy or girl could muster. Then I...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh
- Blog posts 2006-09-30
- As Zune looms, Napster UK gives away MP3 players (potential doorstops)
- Ever hear of ARPU? Average revenue per unit? Thats one of the metrics that cellular phone carriers ("cellcos" for short) use to gauge their success. Its also one of the reasons that the cost of your cell phone was either partially or entirely subsidized. Or, in my case (which...
- Tags: ARPU, Napster Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Studios to OK copying movie downloads to disc
- Studios to OK copying movie downloads to discincrease the size of their what?The computer morons are at it again. Spend an hour to download an inferior copy of a movie sans add-ons probably, copy it to a special disc at what cost? (need a special dvd-writer?) and then watch it....
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Unlike PC, movie, DVD, disc, TV
- Discussion threads 2006-08-10
- Pantech C300
- When we first heard that the Pantech C300 promised to be the world's smallest flip phone, we weren't terribly excited. Since it seems like every phone these days is hoping to claim the title of the world's thinnest handset, we've grown accustomed to seeing increasingly tiny models. But when we...
- Tags: telephone, Pantech C300, Pantech
- Product reviews 2006-06-23
- RIAA and DMCA madness
- RIAA and DMCA madnessSuzi, we have become like the dog...Sadly, each time our fair use/first sale rights have been whittled away, the majority of the population(read: non-techies) is totally unfazed, until it reaches a point where it's blatantly obvious, but too late to reverse the damage easily.If the IPPA was...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, blog, RIAA, IPPA, DMCA, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-04-24
- The new meaning of programming
- Guest post: Robert Young looks at what media programming means in the Internet age, and how the rise of social media is shifting control away from modern day Hollywood and established media giants...Some of you might be familiar with the seminal whitepaper that David Isenberg published back in 1997 titled...
- Tags: programming
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
- StreamCast sues Kazaa, Skype: here's my take
- As fellow VoIP blogger Andy Abramson reports, it has been revealed that back on January 20, Morpheus peer-to-peer technology developer and provider StreamCast Networks, filed a RICO suit against Skype Technologies SA, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, and BlueMoon OU (the company that reportedly did a lot of the...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- StopBadware.org issues first reports
- StopBadware.org, the newest anti-spyware group on the scene, promised to name the bad guys and today they issued the first set of reports on 4 badware pushers that consumers should avoid. StopBadware reported on 4 applications: Kazaa, SpyAxe, Waterfalls 3, and MediaPipe. Each report details the objectionable behavior of...
- Tags: StopBadware, Spyaxe, Kazaa
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- French finish draft of law to open iTunes
- French finish draft of law to open iTunesWhat's new? THe French have always wanted a free ride.As long as someone else is paying for it...Lies ! I'm frenchHello, I'm a french fellow, and i follow this eucd adaptation of the law. Interoperability (which permits us to listen what we...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2006-03-17
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 million
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 millionAnother CEOThis guy should be thrown in jail! Run a company into the ground and get a bonus!Shareholders can sell a kidney.......to help pay for the high-priced talent.I worked at Compaq ..... for a few years in the late 90's. I remember...
- Tags: MCI Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Alpha Processor
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hip
- Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hipExcellent! We should see the first Trojan for Xbox359 ASAPAs soon as it's released..Brilliant.. join your new product with the source of spyware and worms..Ahh... this will ensure it will never be #1.Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hipDoes...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Games, Media Center PC, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360
- Discussion threads 2005-05-17
- BitTorrent hubs close after ISP raid
- BitTorrent hubs close after ISP raidThese clowns are just wishful thinkers.. you can't stop it.Not that I have any "reactor.to" or "spy" or "bay.org" idea what they are talking about.. ;)Only temporaryThose who trade files will find a way to do it.I will....steal ALL the copyrighted entertainment that exists in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), BitTorrent, MP3, IP, TV
- Discussion threads 2005-03-18
- Apple aims for mass appeal with $499 Mac
- Apple aims for mass appeal with $499 MacLooks nice..But it's underpowered, IMO..It'll do....This will do just fine for the non-power user/gamer that wants a Mac, but wants to minimize the purchase of new hardware. It's about time.Perfect.......for a student, or someone on a budget. It'll do anything a Celeron...
- Tags: Desktops, Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, Consumer electronics, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, TV, video, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-01-11
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