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Apple: ITunes outsold Napster 5-to-1

Apple: ITunes outsold Napster 5-to-1PC's Hollystupid's next targetTravis Kalanick has a problem with the emerging world of legal online music services. As the head of peer-to-peer content distribution company Red Swoosh, he was naturally curious to try Roxio's new Napster download service when it launched last week. Trouble is, Napster...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Office, TV-Anytime Forum, MICROSOFT SAYS IT, Open Mobile Alliance Ltd., PC, Microsoft Corp., Leonardo Chiariglione, Napster Inc., standards body, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, digital-rights managemen

Discussion threads 2003-11-07

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TV's future: the partnerships are forming now

In just the last few days, there were a few news announcements that, separately, were kind of ho-hum. But together, it appears that the stars are suddenly starting to align for the next generation of television, one that's more of an on-demand Internet-based experience, instead of a schedule-driven feed from...

Tags: Partnership, TiVo Inc., Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Why are plasma HDTVs still the minority view?

Why are plasma HDTVs still the minority view?Size and Power ConsumptionI think the main issues with plasmas is that they are hard to find below 50" and I would be that most TVs sold today fit into the

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LCD technology, HDTV, LCD, plasma, TV, minority view

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" ad

Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" adAnother joke from MicrosoftYou can get a laptop for $300 dollars, why did they give her $2000? Since the quality, user experience, usability, stability, resale value, ownership costs, capabilities, etc never seem to fit into this lines of commercials, what is the use of giving $2000?...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

SmartAlerts 1.0.4 (Mobile)

Want a different alert sound when a family member sends an e-mail? Want your phone to blink a custom LED color when your favorite TV show is about to start? Want to be notified about new e-mails from your favorite BlackBerry forum.SmartAlerts allows you to create customized Blackberry alerts using...

Tags: Mobile, Light-emitting Diode, RIM BlackBerry, SMS, Bellshare GmbH, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-05-06

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for Mac 1.0.1.0 (Mac)

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for Mac is a ground breaking application that lets Mac users enjoy the world of internet video without long frustrating waits. Video Accelerator provides for fast streaming of web videos from leading sites such as YouTube. Additionally, SpeedBit Video Accelerator provides blazing fast iTunes downloads speeds, letting...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, SpeedBit, Video Accelerator, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-23

WSJ: Microsoft makes less than $15 per XP netbook

WSJ: Microsoft makes less than $15 per XP netbookProbably because Vista cost much more to begin with...And before SP1 was a steaming pile... I don't care as much about costs as I do ethics. Sorry to be a product of a previous time; I'm a dinosaur. Almost 2000...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Sales strategy, netbook, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., XP-netbook, sales

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud

It wasn't so long ago that Twitter was being mocked for being nothing more than a forum for people to share trivial things such as what they're eating for breakfast or what they're watching on TV. Suddenly, Twitter is getting some mainstream respect, the latest coming today in the form...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Twitter, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-22

Apple TV 2.3.1 update breaks Boxee (Updated 2x)

Apple TV 2.3.1 update breaks Boxee (Updated 2x)Because they like control of purpose built boxesNext patch, skip hosts for name resolution for update process.I don't know how close Apple TV is to normal OS X, but couldn't you just use launchd to disable the auto update service?Why do blog authors...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Boxee, Apple TV, Apple TV 2.3.1, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Future TV tech from Hitachi on CES show floor

Future TV tech from Hitachi on CES show floorbezels, bezels???I guess there is nothing to be done to improve tv's except packaging. Please change you headline. It is totally misleading. This is a technology forum, not a design forum.

Tags: Storage, TVs, CES Show, Hitachi Ltd., TV

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative

While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Internet TV, Comcast Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-08

International Mobile TV Forum Overview

The first in CIS countries international forum dedicated to mobile TV "Mobile Broadcasting. World success story and prospects of implementation in Eastern Europe and CIS" took place in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 29, 2007. The sponsorship support of the event was provided by QArea as far as the company considers...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, TV, QArea, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-01-01

Intel to showcase Widget Channel Internet TV platform at CES

Another tech heavyweight is jumping into the battle over bringing the Internet to the living room. Intel will be showing off its new Widget Channel platform, which combines the new Media Processor CE 3100 with a software framework for displaying widgets of information on your TV,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Internet TV, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-20

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays forOops. meant to place that in general :(Seems like a vested interest commissioned this study.What has googlebots copying web pages from websites got anything to do with consumer bandwidth?And the claim that google is copying certain websites every second is just...

Tags: bandwidth, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Mitsubishi LaserVue L65A90

Mitsubishi LaserVue L65A90overpriced new techTV is overpriced! Its another first generation TV from mits and their first generation DLP tv's have been nightmares. There other generation of DLP tv's have also had numerous problems. They have 2 current lawsuits against them and treat their customers like crap.http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7596_102-0.html?forumID=60&threadID=257865&start=0&tag=forum-w;forums06Go the the above...

Tags: DLP, DLP TV, Mitsubishi Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?BullI see way too many students at my university doing nothing but spending time on the "new media". Most of them are like crack whores. It's their whole world and nothing else matters. Oh, yeah, most of them seem to flunk out in...

Tags: Go-ahead, MySpace

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Review: Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T HTC Fuze Windows Mobile devices

Review: Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T HTC Fuze Windows Mobile devicesWeather screen is handy tooI have a team in the Philippines and when the weather is bad -- the team gets into work later. I like the weather application that I set to San Jose, California and Makati, Philippines. If...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Data Cap, Sprint Touch Pro, Sprint Touch, Sprint Communications, phone, High Tech Computer Corp., Fuze, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Oracle new support community: no code sharing? closed?

Eddie Awad says that My Oracle Support Community is due to launch later this week. Looking through the slides there is much to admire. It sure beats the heck out of the SAP Community for looks though seems more or less on a par with features. It uses a similar...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Eddie Awad, SCN Site, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model

Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business modelBut were is that highway system going?Sure, WiMax is building a highway system, so it was with the cellular network and, so it is now with 3G too. The problem is where are those highways going. They...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Satellite Service, WiMAX, broadband, wireless business, mobile broadband, wireless, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

BIOS settings demystified

BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings

Discussion threads 2008-09-30