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- Swan song for Microsoft's music allies?
- Swan song for Microsoft's music allies?Ignorance must be blissThe iPod is about $0-50 more expensive than other players (HD, Flash)The iTunes Music store has the largest catelog of downloadable music.You can put MP3's on the iPod.BahI'll stick with my Creative Nomad Zen Xtra and completely un-DRM'd MP3's thank you very...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, SanDisk Corp., Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Swan Song, Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- Nelson exiting OSI presidency with non-proliferation swan song?
- Nelson exiting OSI presidency with non-proliferation swan song?Oil and Water>>Because of the way OSDL receives a significant>>amount of its funding from the vendor >>community, some believe that the mixing of >>those corporate interests with licensing >>oversight is like mixing oil and water.And appointing Tiemann to this position *isn't* like mixing...
- Tags: swan song, Nelson, OSI
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
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- McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)
- YouTube's speedy response to DMCA take-down notices has been the subject of lawsuits – notably Stephanie Lenz, who with the EFF sued when YouTube deleted her video of her kid rockin' out to a Prince song. Now John McCain has a problem with YouTube take-downs. In a...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., John McCain, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?
- I have to get a new MacBook Pro. I need to find a way to convince my wife that one of my kids needs my MacBook and I must therefore have one of the latest MBPs introduced today. Because seriously, folks, if you haven't checked out coverage of...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright warsThis article is right on track...Now if we can just get the lobbyists to leave Washington and get the Congress to repeal all the copyright acts passed since 1975.Never Going To HappenThe recent meltdown of Wall Street and the financial markets world wide pretty...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- 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
- 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
- YouTube teams with iTunes, Amazon to offer e-commerce feature
- It's Business 101: Don't wait for your customers to come to you. Go to the places where they are. That's why you've seen the launches of music streaming services within MySpace and Google's AdSense program extended into Web-based video games. Now, YouTube has partnered with Amazon and...
- Tags: Team, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Video, Apple iTunes, E-business, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Zune 3.0
- Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system
- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the systemWhy stop there?[i]“Some service could measure every time a song was downloaded, say, and a pool of money would be divided among publishers and labels.”[/i]Why not measure every time a ringtone actually sounds on a phone and charge for that?
- Tags: Copyright Board
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system
- The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut down the key leg of its iPod empire was just corporate posturing) but the Board also set a...
- Tags: Board, Ring Tone, Rate, Copyright Royalty Board, Corporate Governance, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2I've lost count how many updates and how much bandwidth this yearI am getting really sick of having to update iTunes every other week.Am I just the only one? And it's not like I have a convenient alternative either.I have a Zune as well...
- Tags: Linux, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, Patches, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows, security, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple released iTunes 8.0.1 yesterday. The 58.5MB update includes the following: • Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist. • Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano. • Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading. • Improves...
- Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- 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
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4That's how they're the "de-facto" standard.Just like Microsoft would be screwed without pirated copies of Windows floating around street corners across the globe.Without pirated copies of Photoshop, it would have a truly limited market. Look at the bloody price of it to figure out...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe PhotoShop, piracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?I hope Apple stands pat.Apple makes money on the players, not so much the music. The can update the firmware to support Microsoft's or other vendors DRM, if needed, and keep selling them.We can live without iTunes. I use...
- Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., variable pricing, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!
- Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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