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- The mania behind Toy Story Mania!
- Pixar fans rejoice: Southern California's Disneyland has opened the doors to its new Toy Story-themed ride. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi travels to the "happiest place on earth" for a look at the technology behind the multidimensional experience and why diehard fans are willing to spend the better part of a...
- Tags: Pixar Animation Studios Inc., News, kara tsuboi, disneyland, toy story, california adventure, mickey mouse, roller coaster, movies, pixar, animation, studio
- Videos 2008-06-19
- Jobs challenged to remove DRM from Pixar films
- DefectiveByDesign.org (a "broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors") has challenged Steve Jobs to put his money where his mouth is regarding his February 6th open letter "Thoughts on Music." The group calls upon Apple to take three steps to demonstrate its commitment to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, job, digital-rights management, Steve Jobs, Apple iTunes, Pixar Animation Studios Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
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- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple: Perception is Reality
- Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...
- Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- Since it's summertime, this column will have the occasional off-topic diversion. Today, I have to take a few minutes to talk about the new Disney-Pixar film, WALL-E. Don't worry, no spoilers here, but I will try and tie in education. I took my kids and a good...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Earth, Disney Corp., Movie, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Al Gore, WALL-E, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVD
- iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVDJobs one Awesome NegotiatorAs Silicon Valley Insider said "Steve Jobs Gets His Mega Studio Deal".Steve Jobs sees to be an incredible negotiator and seemingly has a magic touch in bending very tough managers from very different industries to his will.Examples: signing all those...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, movie, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, DVD, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Google's board member targeted by SEC
- Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...
- Tags: Google Inc., Board, SEC, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Corporate Governance, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- How to calibrate your HDTV
- How to calibrate your HDTVI don't have it in front of me right nowbut if memory serves, Windows Media Center has a utility to help calibrate an HDTV. But I don't remember the details of it and don't know how it stacks up to other methods.THX Optimizer in Pixar /...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, TVs, TV & Home Theater, computer, HDTV, THX Optimizer, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Does Microsoft really need Yahoo? Pondering the opportunity costs
- Does Microsoft really need Yahoo? Pondering the opportunity costsInterseting thoughtScare them out of existence.Plan B?Plan B would be give Google (currently around 77%) the 12.23% share of the global marketplace currently held by Yahoo? Microsoft has a whopping 6.02% as of last month, thus not being a great deal...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- View of Apple from an insider heading out
- View of Apple from an insider heading outObvious case of...Ego jealousy. Envy of those getting name recognition. Wants his name "engraved on the case" so to speak.He's right...I was directly involved with Apple as a Dealer/Service Center from the late 80's to the late 90's. Back then,...
- Tags: Nothing, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Apple senior executives get bonuses, Jobs still at $1
- Apple senior executives get bonuses, Jobs still at $1Apple senior executives get bonuses, Jobs still at $1HAH! I make more than Steve Jobs does! :PAt least give him an iPhoneor an iTouch, or some Just for men for that next keynote speech.ImpressiveAfter reading this I must say I am even...
- Tags: Investment, Benefits, Apple Inc., Apple senior executive, Apple Senior, Jobs Still, stock, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Mixed HD-DVD messages from Toshiba (and Google)?
- Mixed HD-DVD messages from Toshiba and Google?So...What would you have Toshiba do?But if an HD DVD drive costs the same as an upconverting DVD driveBut if an HD DVD drive costs the same as a good upconverting DVD drive at $130, then it becomes a compelling buy. If Toshiba...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, Mixed HD-DVD, Mixed HD-DVD message, Toshiba Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- A vision of fashionable Windows computers
- I stumbled by accident on this collection of photos featuring a Windows computer "fashion show" at CES wherein models strutted about with unusually designed Windows computers. That was shortly followed by an article on the subject on Betanews, titled quite self-explanatorily: "The future is in fashionable PCs." Mykel Nahorniak described...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Vision, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Economy, DVD sales slip drove Warner Bros. to Blu-ray
- Economy, DVD sales slip drove Warner Bros. to Blu-raycharging outrageous prices for blue ray is not going to helpConventional wisdom tells that during hard times people go for the cheapest things. Since HD DVD is about half the price of blue ray, one should wonder if there was some...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, HD DVD, Sony Corp., sales, DVD, HD-DVD, DVD player, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season
- AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday seasonWhat a waste of slots for having four video cards...Try fitting 4 dual-slot video cards as you'll need ThermalTake Armor+ for that. It comes with 10 expansion slots.AMD is putting all their eggs on ATISeems like AMD's CPUs aren't making many waves and...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, radiosity, card, video card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, video, game
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Why Windows users don't switch to Mac
- Why Windows users don't switch to MacPeople don't seem too understand Apple's ads...:PApple is not after every Windows user at least not yet. Apple is targeting those who are not happy with Windows and would like an alternative. Seems like Apple has found some considering her market share...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
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