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Zune preview
I have to say the wireless sharing ability is definitely something that Apple can learn from. I hope that for things other than music you can choose to keep the content on your Zune rather than losing it after three days / three plays though. Things like photots or word docs aren’t likely to be [...]
Fresh from the feeds
Mark Cuban has criticised YouTube for being a haven for copywritten material. He added that anyone willing to buy youtube is a moron because of the hazzards of getting sued by the owners of the material being broadcast for free. Plus I guess there’s the fact that youtube has been losing more money than it’s [...]
HP buys VooDooPC
I havn’t seen much of VooDooPC before now. I looked at their site once to check out what they had to offer. What it looked like to me was a company that sold high end pc’s catering to gamers (with very deep pockets). I’m not sure exactly if I’m right in saying this but I [...]
Zune won't undercut Apple's price
I really thought Microsoft would undercut the 30GB iPod by 10 or 20 dollars. The fact that they havn’t seems in my opinion at least to be market suicide. I mean iPods sell because they do the job and they have the cool factor which Zune, although is one of the best products Microsoft (or [...]
The problem with most computer makers
The issue I always seem to find with most pc makers is that they have overloaded product lists. They have so many diferent variations of similar models that it makes the choice between even models from one brand difficult, nevermind from a number of brands. Seing as I blog a lot about Apple here is [...]
Open Source your Wi-Fi with FON
That’s what I think anyway. What would happen if everyone shared their broadband connection with their router. Well some people already do and they don’t need a FON router (la fonera) to do this. They just don’t set up WEP security on theirs. This is ok, but what if you want to share but also [...]
Does DRM hurt iTunes?
So would iTunes be bigger and more successful than it is now (they havn’t done too badly) if they didn’t use digital rights management to prevent people from accessing the music on more than five pc’s / mac’s? I guess inevitably it would benefit from not using DRM. The one thing I don’t get is [...]
Virgin to help out the environment too
Sir Richard Branson is to donate $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight global warming. The Virgin boss said he would give all profits from his travel firms, such as airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next 10 years. One of the UK’s best known entrepreneurs, he made the announcement at a news conference in New [...]
The latest way to tackle global warming
Suing the car companies is what the state of California is doing to help protect the environment. I have to give it to Arnie for being pioneering and doing something bold to help the situation. I’m just not convinced it’s the right thing to do. Because although it makes them money and annoys car makers [...]
Napster for Mac! ….. oh wait, nevermind
Downloads from Napster in .wma format only? What planet are these guys on? I used to think Napster was cool and the ultimate in legal downloading when they first came back but now they’re eclipsed in my estimation by pretty much everyone else. Especially iTunes and more recently eMusic.