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- Flailing the latest digital whipping boy
- Flailing the latest digital whipping boyMy two cents"Of course evidence suggests that file sharing cannibalizes the economic value of the movies, television shows, and music distributed illegally on peer-to-peer networks. Being able to obtain content on peer to peer networks negates the need for consumers to buy DVDs, watch television,...
- Tags: TVs, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Peer to peer (P2P), industry, Music Festival, DVD, TV, cartel
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
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- Livin' La Vida Linux
- Encoding my CDs in a lossless, patent-fee, DRM-free format gives me the freedom to do what I want with the music I've already bought. The RIAA would probably call me a criminal. by Jeremy Allison
- Tags: Jeremy Allison, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Device, CD, Music, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event
- update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 11:03 a.m. - The event is over. Steve thanks us for coming and we're done. 10:54 a.m. Answers questions about relationship with Nvidia, as well as integration of Blu-Ray. Jobs said...
- Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Apple MacBook Pro, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare nextSooo?This means we can find affordable health care? Doctors who will actually take the time to examine us? Doctors who actually know what is wrong with us? Rather than those who simply listen to our symptoms and hand us a bunch of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Gartner Inc., media, financial service
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook eventyou CAN listen to streaming radio...in iTunes create a playlist for your favorite radio stations... can call it "Radio"... go to "Radio" and find your favourite radio stations that you like to listen to.... drag these station into your "Radio" playlist... sync your...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple Inc., Apple TV, notebook, radio
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event
- The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the MacBook line and/or the move into Nvidia's graphics chipset and/or something altogether different. (Dontcha just love the Apple rumor mill?)...
- Tags: Notebook, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!
- Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!Why they won't!A 32" HDTV sells for approximayely $550.00 to $750.00 not the $1,700 for their monitor. The margins on this type of product are very low. Apple doesn't do low marginsDoesn't matterNobody will be able to afford it...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, iPODS, Apple Inc., Apple HDTV, HDTV, big iPod!, iPod!
- Discussion threads 2008-10-12
- Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video
- Purported aluiminum MacBook leak videoIt is a fakeWhy no wide angle shot of the entire unit?Like the three blind men and the elephant: "seeing" small parts of it from different areas give the impression of something entirelly different then viewing the elephant as a ahole.Could be the same psychiatry is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Corporate communications, Desktops, Apple MacBook, video, bank, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-10-11
- Psystar OpenPro
- Ongoing lawsuits notwithstanding, Psystar remains the only desktop vendor other than Apple to offer PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Thanks to a new restore disc and improved software updating, this $2,660 Psystar OpenPro computer is much more secure than the lower-end Open Computer the company released back...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, insurance policy, Psystar, Psystar OpenPro, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, disc
- Product reviews 2008-10-11
- Klipsch Image X5 - headphones
- When it comes to portable devices, audio quality depends just as much on the headphones as it does on the audio specs of the player. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that many people spend more on their headphones than they do on their MP3 players. In...
- Tags: ear piece, cord, Klipsch Image X5, headphone
- Product reviews 2008-10-10
- Motorola Razr2 V9x (AT&T)
- Photo gallery:Motorola Razr2 V9xEditors' note: The Motorola Razr V9x is almost identical to the Motorola Razr V9, but it offers additional features. This review will concentrate on the differences between the two devices.When Motorola introduced AT&T's Motorola Razr V9 last year, we were pleasantly surprised. Instead of a simple revamp...
- Tags: keypad button, Motorola Razr, Motorola Inc., external display, Motorola Razr V9, AT&T Corp., Motorola Razr2, display
- Product reviews 2008-10-10
- Music market shares in October 2008
- According to Nielsen SoundScan, Universal Music led the US music market with 35.12% in October 2008, followed by Sony Music with 22.79%, Warner Music with 21.12%, EMI Group with 8.35%, and the rest of the labels with 12.61%. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Music market shares in October 2008", url:...
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- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Consumers score a partial win against WalmartThis is why DRM should be illegalIf wal-mart want to make it right,it should give everyone with DRM infected music a clean track of every song and then shutdown the illegal DRM servers forever.DRM Sucks!!!!!It harms the genuine buyers. Pirated software and music has...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Open source is about belief in code
- Open source is about belief in codeAnd there is the power that cannot be overcome ]:)[B][/B]wow you hit it just where it neededyou so right when you explain that even of a open source company goes belly-up its code will survive .......that so true with this code will...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'Where are these returned MachinesI keep looking online for refurbished Linux Netbooks and can�t find any. Are they being resold as new?'teething problems'well written but i would like the know the return rate for Linux not compared XP or vista, is it...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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