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- Hands-on with the Zune Pass subscription music service
- This week, Microsoft announced a major change to its all-you-can-eat music download service. The new Zune Pass costs $14.95 a month and gives subscribers the right to download anything in the Zune marketplace. In addition, the monthly fee includes 10 song credits, which can be used for DRM-free MP3. Here's...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Digital Music, Personal Technology, zune, mp3, drm, Ed Bott
- Image galleries 2008-11-24
- Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
- You've probably heard enough about the Blackberry Storm, but humor me for a second. There are a number of ways that the Storm beats the iPhone because of what I call the second mover advantage. RIM deftly did what any wise competitor would do, they exploited the demand for features...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Subscription music services: Are we there yet?
- Microsoft on Thursday announced a new music subscription model for its Zune music player and the big question in the back of the room is this: Will subscription music services ever become dominant? Sure, there are a few folks that subscribe to their music. And Microsoft has...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Music, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Top...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- 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
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...
- Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- A Kindroid in every pot?
- Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...
- Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Kicking Internet pirates off the web
- Kicking Internet pirates off the webPiracy'They'still haven't figured it out!! Make the product a fair price and people will happily pay for it. With a blank CD at 50 cents, who will pay $20 from a shop for an 'Imported'music CD? PERCEIVED VALUE is the key. At $5 nobody would...
- Tags: Perceived Value, Web, piracy, Kicking Internet, Kicking Internet pirate
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
- The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...
- Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- DirecTV's HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?
- DirecTV's HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?Yes I have ....... Have you used a TiVo??I doubt since you actually think that MC has a better interface.TiVo is not perfect, but I had more problems getting MC to do what I actually want/need it to do that I ever...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Blu-ray, OEM-version, TiVo Inc., DirecTV, Media Center PC, SDV Tuning Adapter Support, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Microsoft to discourage hybrid graphics systems for Windows 7
- Microsoft to discourage hybrid graphics systems for Windows 7Why should we use hybrid graphics?IMO the graphic card manufactures should do something like what the CPUs manufactures do, dynamic adjustment. When in a lower power battery setting the GPU could adjust to a lower clock speed and or voltage, etc.That is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hybrid Graphics, graphics, GPU, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics system, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Share DRM Music M4P Converter (exe)
- Share DRM Music is a M4P to MP3 Converter, easily converts DRM protected m4p to mp3, m4a to mp3, wma to mp3, m4b to mp3 and various audio files to unprotected MP3, iPod, and other MP3 player file formats at high speed, with CD quality. Share DRM Music uses a...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, MP3, Music, ShareDRMusic, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- MAC M4P Converter for iTunes (zip)
- MAC M4P Converter convert any iTunes music to mp3 or AAC on Mac OS X. It easily converts DRM protected iTunes m4p to mp3, m4a to mp3, m4b to mp3, m4p to AAC, and various audio files to unprotected MP3 file format at high speed, with CD quality. MAC M4P...
- Tags: MAC, MP3, Apple iTunes, AhaMediaSoft, MAC M4P Converter, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Google: it’s time to get Real
- Google: it’s time to get Realdo itdo itoptions = successI don't necessarily buy your argument Jason"Let's face it, Apple has its users locked in big time. In order to download software from Apple's iTunes store, you have to use the iTunes application. In order to use the iTunes application and...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Linux, Desktops, Apple iTunes, high-speed internet service, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Google: it's time to get Real
- In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy
- On the surface, it would appear that a slowing economy might pave the way for increased Linux and Open Source software adoption by the unwashed masses, those who may want newer software than what their current XP system provides but don't want to pay the high...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS X
- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThere is only one advantage of Windows over Mac OS XDirectX.RE: A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThe challenge should be: what can you do on an exorbitantly expensive Mac that you can't do right now in Windows for a fraction of...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, OSX, Microsoft Windows 7, halloween challenge, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, MacOS X, Win 7, Apple Macintosh, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- Stop Blu-ray discs from phoning home with AnyDVD HD
- Stop Blu-ray discs from phoning home with AnyDVD HDI don't really careIf studios want to how many times I'm watching their movie, that's up to them and I don't really care... if this becomes a problem, I'm sure in the future they'll add some prompt where it asks if it's...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD DVD, Stop Blu-ray disc, movie, AnyDVD HD, disc, Blu-ray disc
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
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