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Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free music

Apple, Amazon may hold future of DRM-free musicSales SlumpRemoving DRM from thier music won't improve sales. The Major Labels are in slump because of the content they are offering. First it's limited in terms of choice and what you have to choose from is all the same. You can have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Sales strategy, Digital media, UNIX, Major Label, Apple Inc., dinosaur, similiarity, Amazon.com Inc., music, slump, digital-rights management, RIAA, late 80s, CD, sales

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

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Sage to step into the on-demand ring

News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...

Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Turkey, stuffing and Macs?

It appears that Americans enjoyed a healthy serving of Macs over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Writing for Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Philip Elmer-DeWitt analyzed Apple's domestic sales on Amazon.com over the critical Black Friday selling weekend. He concludes that Apple's online sales got off to a better start than...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronics, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...

Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.

If your holiday list includes a laptop, there's a new choice from an well-known name: Samsung. In October, Samsung announced that it was entering the U.S. market with six new notebooks, as well as a netbook. The timing wasn't great. After several quarters of double-digit growth, the PC market cooled...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laptop Computer, Laptop Magazine, PC Magazine, Notebooks, Modems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Verari signs up partner for Forest data center container line

I've poked around some during the past two months, trying to get a read on whether or not companies are actually buying the data center containers or "pods" that several of the larger high-tech systems vendors have been piloting this year. So far, the biggest evangelist on the customer side...

Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions

Apple has said "it doesn't do cheap," but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point--either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2009 or a tablet Mac in 2010. That's one of the more...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, 3G, Notebooks, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer

Major news sources are reporting that Facebook has won a $873 million dollar judgement against a Canadian spammer. What this means for spam on social networks is not clear, however. Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, CA, had a judgement of $873 million dropped on him by a...

Tags: Facebook, Judgement, Spammer, E-mail World, E-mail, Spam, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Will Storm's delays hurt RIM's Q3?

I know you're probably on Blackberry Storm overload by now - but please indulge me once more. Last month, I asked all of you whether I should go iPhone or wait for the Storm. Overwhelmingly, you all told me to wait for the Storm, that it would be a game-changer....

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Did suicide viewers commit a crime?

185 people watched Abe Biggs kill himself online. Some tried to talk him out of it, other goaded him on. No one notified authorities until it was too late. Was a crime committed? by Richard Koman

Tags: Suicide, Florida, Channel Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-24

News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-24

New MacBook Pro performance degrades with the battery removed

Gearlog has discovered a weird issue with the latest generation (Late 2008) MacBook Pros – they run like dogs when the battery is removed. To the tune of a 37-percent drop in speed without the battery. Zach Honig benchmarked a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro...

Tags: Performance, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro Performance, Gearlog, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?

This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...

Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Taleo's November to forget

An HR Soap Opera This month hasn't been a good one for Taleo. Here's the timeline of events and an analysis of the lawsuits that are originating from recent events. On 11/3/2008, the company announced its Q3 earnings and they didn't delight Wall...

Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Stock, Revenue Recognition, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps

Ulteo is now offering what Microsoft and Citrix will not: a server based computing solution for the Linux desktop and Linux applications. The company, which late last year launched the first OpenOffice open source desktop online, has announced the availability of the Open Virtual Desktop...

Tags: Linux Desktop, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Ulteo, Open Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Terminal Server, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?

On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks

The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...

Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Dell: How bad is it?

Dell's fiscal third quarter isn't expected to be pretty. The only real question is where Dell's quarter falls on the ugly scale. The company's first shot at an outlook for the quarter unraveled just a few weeks later amid weak PC demand. And when Dell reports earnings...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift?

This holiday season, if you can't afford an iPod, will you consider a Zune? Microsoft is announcing a price cut today to its flash-based Zune models: $99 for the 4GB model, $139 for the 8GB version and $179 for the 16GB player. That prices the devices less...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Microsoft Zune, TV, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-19

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-18