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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
With Amazon now offering DRM free tracks for 89c compared to Apple iTunes 99c for its DRM restricted tracks, why would music fans continue to buy music from iTunes? However, it's Amazon's threat to the iPod not iTunes that Apple should be worried about.
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
Confirmation that Universal and Paramount, the last two movie studios that support the HD DVD format, are now free to switch to Blu-ray, joining the other major studios, appears to sound the death knell for HD DVD.
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
The HD DVD cause has taken so many bullets lately that if it were a ship it would be at the bottom of the ocean by now. However, HD DVD players are dirt cheap (at least in the US) so should consumers take a chance on the format?
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
I have never been a fan of Nicholas Negroponte or his ill conceived One Laptop Per Child program. Therefore I'm not surprised that the honeymoon is over between OLPC and Intel only a few months after they announced their marriage. Dr Negroponte has a dangerously naive view of how the world works and how to fix its problems. Therefore, he should expect to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in the near future. Meanwhile Intel will get back to business.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
Warner Bros' decision to go exclusively Blu-ray raises many questions. The overarching one of course is whether this means the end of the much publicised HD format war. Has the bell tolled for HD DVD?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
The concept is so simple that one wonders why it took a flash memory maker to attempt to popularize it. SanDisk is reselling an automatic online backup service with its newly announced USB memory sticks. How long before hard disk manufacturers also take note of what consumers want and need?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
The news that Dell has now released Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on its boxes (and about time too!) has been tempered somewhat by a potential storm of controversy caused by a couple of software packages that come bundled with the Dell Linux PCs. The two bundled packages happen to be proprietary software. Is this going to be a problem?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
Remember those sci-fi movies and books where humans and interplanetary aliens interact and speak to each other using electronic helmet translating devices? If not, then maybe you're too young but anyway Google has taken the first step towards making on the fly real-time dual-language conversations a reality.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
While Mozilla moves forward in leaps and bounds getting rave reviews for new beta versions of Firefox 3, Microsoft has promised that beta 1 of Internet Explorer version 8 will be ready by the first half of 2008! After a less than enthusiastic reception and take-up of IE7, 14 months after its release, is there any reason to think that IE8 will succeed where its predecessor failed in halting the meteoric rise of Firefox?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
I've just downloaded and had a casual fool around with Firefox 3 Beta 2 and I'm told that it has approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. However, what it boils down to is that it's even faster than the Beta 1 version and it is even easier to navigate.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, has defended itself against claims from sections of the Linux community that it has ignored Linux in the development of Firefox 3, the next generation of the browser. Mozilla's chief interface designer says Linux is very much included in the development project.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
Recently parents at an Australian private school received a notice from the principal advising them that incidents of cyber bullying at the school had been discovered. The letter went on to warn parents that they should closely monitor the online activities of their children and stop them from joining social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. Is this sound advice or unnecessarily alarmist?
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Like thousands of other media commentators around the world, in January this year I attended the offical Microsoft launch of Windows Vista. In my show bag of goodies, among the press releases, I found shiny new boxed copies of the Ultimate versions of Vista and Office 2007. Since I didn't have a computer at the time that could run Vista, I loaned my copy to iTWire blogger Sam Varghese for a review. What happened next is most interesting.
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