by greg stene My wife and I had and encounter with voodoo on our vacation and it has a lot to do with advertising. I say this in such a direct manner […]
Apple rents movies – and crickets chirp
Apple recently announced that they’d be renting movies via their iTunes service. As a result, I’ve started seeing analysts saying that this was going to make Apple even more dominant than they […]
The death of DRM is the rebirth of the music industry
By Martin Bosworth I just wanted to follow up on Brian’s awesome post detailing Sony BMG’s plans to sell DRM-free music through Amazon as part of a Super Bowl promotion by making […]
Today is a good day for DRM to die
Not too long ago, it seemed like Sony BMG was willing to die on the digital rights management (DRM) hillside rather than climb to the top along with its fellow major international […]
Investment as usual: Microsoft, Facebook and the strategy of business
When Windows Vista was released earlier this year it was greeted by yawns and much boredom. Dell and other hardware retailers declared that users were demanding that they keep their existing operating […]
Microsoft again earns the moniker “Micro$haft”
Slashdot’s nightly headlines brought this bit of news from Information Week and Ars Technica to my attention last night: Microsoft submitted an adware patent back in 2006 that will use “context data” […]
iHype and the unHip
By Sunfell Apple wants me to be a Pod Person. Seriously. According to them, I’m the frumpy, square, humorless, uncreative, stuck in biz-mode PC guy in the ads. I’m the one not […]
Now why didn’t I think of this?
What a wonderful Friday afternoon story. Apple and friends hit with C&D for “actively avoiding” use of DRM tech Posted May 11th 2007 4:22PM by Paul Miller Here’s a new one on […]
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