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Carmakers race to accommodate iPods

Carmakers race to accommodate iPodsAnother nail in Zune's coffinApple's dominance leads to aftermarket products like this which further reinforces Apple's dominance. Windows fans out there, now you know how it feels to be on the other side.Zune need not apply......at least at GM. It's going to be a long...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Manufacturing, Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., MP3 player, MP3, Apple iPod, iPODS, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., DRM King

Discussion threads 2006-08-03

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Blockbuster initiating rentals via SD cards at store kiosks

Blockbuster isn't going down without a fight. Their newest attempt to get customers in their stores and away from Netflix.com is a new rental system in which film lovers can rent movies via SD cards at a kiosk machine. Sounds like we still have to leave...

Tags: SD Card, Blockbuster Inc., Memory, Flash Memory, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Security, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

If it's ...... easier than Win7 to install, they will have a winner!^o^Yawn, another boring launch of another boring linux distro. No excitement, people aren't enthused. There is nothing new here. As I said...BORING.Well 9.04 was not diffcult to install Not sure what you are going for here 9.04 was...

Tags: Linux, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, KDE 4 Desktop, Win7, Ubuntu, HDCP, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Why the big Android bandwagon?

One minor nit to pickTo succeed, however, it will have to deliver products as good or better than the iPhone, at the same or less cost, with just as many apps.It needs just as many good apps. It doesn't need all the flashlights or fart apps or things like that....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Branding, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Optical storage: RIP

Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...

Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Sony to ship Chrome with Vaio PCs

So the two biggest offenders of privacy want to collaborate on PC software? This is simply hilarious! Sony's pre-installed rootkit and Google's Chrome which sends data to Google and becomes their property on everything you browse working together on the same PC is just a bad idea. ...

Tags: Rootkits, Desktops, PC, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

News to know: Microsoft; Amazon, AT&T-iPhone; PayPal; Yahoo's board

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Board, Yahoo! Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Smart Phones, Data Centers, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-24

News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-22

News to know: Yahoo's home page; Barnes & Noble; Microsoft's Linux Code; 3G iPod Touch

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo's new home page: Spending more time in your world Larry Dignan: Barnes & Noble partners with...

Tags: Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod Touch, Barnes & Noble Inc., Linux, 3G, UNIX, Operating Systems, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Palm, not Apple, deserves black eye for iTunes sync confusion

Palm, not Apple, deserves black eye for iTunes sync confusioniTunes a monopoly?Do you understand the word?Or are you suggesting that the fact that if a door from a BMW cannot be used on a Toyota means that Toyota is a monopoly for not allowing a user to install a BMW...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, iTunes Songs, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

If a color Kindle is years away, where does that leave e-textbooks?

An old mentor of mine used to lecture to his classes and peers using 35mm slides. He created them in WordPerfect (this was along about 1996) and they consisted of black text on a white background. The didn't need images, color, or fancy transitions. He was a...

Tags: Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-29

News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-19

PirateBay founders guilty

PirateBay founders guiltymehPiracy is NOT "ok". It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's cheap, and it's evil!Now, that being said, I'm going to a flaming pit in a handbasket when I die.The recording/movie industry has no one to blame for their "immense damages" except for themselves. They held onto business practices...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PirateBay, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?Dynabook for $100?"I have a dream" Unfortunately like Martin Luther King, Alan Kay's Dynabook is nothing more at this time.I wish it wasn't so but like socialism it requires a level of cooperation at so many levels that in a capitalist society...

Tags: E-books, Engineering, Dynabook, Alan Kay

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Low cost is king

Low cost is kingI have most of the gear to go with blu-ray... i just refuse to pay for it.So money is the big deal. Why pay for something thats slightly better when i have can use something thats easily transportable use in any device now , takes up...

Tags: Sales strategy, advertisement, online advertising, Apple Inc., sales, Low-cost

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Apple wins royalty rate showdown

Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...

Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

eBooks: The first step of a long change

eBooks: The first step of a long changeYes, indeed.It is a suicide Jack, but I was playing on the "content is king" trope.I might be interested in Great Expectations, if the eBook had links to historical information Dickens knew, how the book had informed later books -- through links to...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-21

iRumors

iRumorsI am amazed at what tools the media has become!Really another article on Apple rumors on the day they are going to announce? Is that what passes for news worthy these days? The Apple PR people use you guys like $2 hookers and you stand in line for...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc., iRumors

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Super Tuesday: Nike Pro, iTunes unlimited, Sirius, NFL?

With Tuesday's iPod event beginning to take shape, a couple of Super Tuesday rumors slipped through the cracks in my fortune teller piece yesterday. 1. TUAW thinks that we may see an updated Nike+ rig (Nike Pro?) for the runners out there. Since the original Nike+ kit...

Tags: Nike Inc., NFL, Sirius, Apple iTunes, TUAW, Digital Music, Satellite Radio, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), GPS, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-16