One of these things is not like the other… So I am not very interested in DRM laden music. Not because I give my music purchases away … nah, if I want to let a friend listen I let them listen but I don’t go sharing music all over “the internets” nor the “series of […]
‘NYT’ Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free NEW YORK The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13. In 2005 I mentioned the forthcoming wall between some of the most excellent columnists as a loss. I still […]
Office 2008 for Mac: It’s coming this year – Applications – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com Microsoft’s Sheridan Jones, a group marketing manager in Redmond’s Macintosh Business Unit, said: “It’s very Mac-like. It’s not an incredibly abrupt change for our users.” You know what Microsoft? We don’t care about Office 2008 being “Mac […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers, QOTSA, T.I. Rock For Zune “These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,” UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. “So its time to get paid for it.” So get this. I’m a criminal! Why? Apparently because I own two iPods and they are supposedly my container for […]
I’m using RC1 of IE7. Bluntly put, I can barely stand the experience. Oh sure, it’s got tabs now which moves it toward tolerable. But I’m not even talking about the missed opportunities to fix CSS rendering bugs, nor the strange lack of an application menu and the trouble that brings. I’m talking about something […]
Mark Mulligan – More shots at Apple Another wild card that could upset the Apple cart is EMI (again) and Warner’s negotiations with YouTube over potentially having free music video content available funded by ad revenues. Apart from this being another indication that premium paid content models are still failing to make up meaningful ground […]
The headline screams — Another movie studio offers movie downloads! What it whispers is “another movie studio offers movie downloads you can purchase and view if you have the right operating system version and are using the right web browser. Effectively rendering the service useless. Warner Bros. sells films via Guba.com – Yahoo! News LOS […]
Windows Live Shopping Tell me how, really, how can anyone launch something in such a way? How can a web site or web service be written today no less by the world’s largest software company and not support any browser on many platforms? What is the excuse, really for Microsoft’s Shopping Live web site? I […]
Bowdoin College Google, why can’t you include Bowdoin College in your index sooner? We had an incident whereby you deleted our entire site from your index… there was no way to cancel the operation. The remove URL function is not super friendly. We bought a Google Mini to rectify the lack of internal search engine […]