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A lot of people are saying that Best Buys' purchase of Napster was a bad idea. I disagree. This actually might be a great thing for Best Buy and it might just put Napster back on the map. And it's really not the same as Blockbuster - Circuit City deal. First of all, forget what Napster did in the past
Two things fail to surprise me in the AP article "HP surprises Wall Street with size of EDS job cuts". That HP took such a big axe to the EDS bloat and that wall street is surprised. Anyone that has ever worked with EDS, especially on the supply side, could tell you how much bloat was within that company. The
The good folks over at Podcast.com have ranked the Geek News Central the 15t most listened to show in August over at their site. This is the 9th month in a row we have been on the Top 25 over there.
I spend some time on Apple iTunes tonight and challenge Steve Jobs to prove their are 120,000 active podcasters in the iTunes Podcast Directory. Update: Did Not know Steve Jobs was a vegetarian, guess no steak for him! Please Support my Show Sponsors!: [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] [Save 10% off on any
There have been reports that the new iTunes v8 upgrade is crashing Vista machines. Some are seeing a BSOD, or an immediate reboot upon connection of an iPod to the Vista machine. I have been having problems too, no BSOD but iTunes stalls/crashes and the iPod is not recognized. If I let it sit for ten minutes, eventually iTunes responds
The first nominations have already started to come in. In fact 92 seconds after we opened the nominations up we started getting submissions!
I am not going to cry over Dish Network offering HD only packages to new customers. In other words if you don’t like watching crappy Standard def channels on your big screen you now have a choice to get only the high quality HD channels starting at $30 per month with local channels. I understand that is their business model
I was reading a story about a bit torrent site concerning some data that some people did not want made public. I won't mention the site since it would defeat the purpose of this post because I don't want the data seen either. I see things like this all the time and not just online. some group decides that a
Todd had the story in the podcast last week about California charging citizens to download or get paper copies of laws. One patriotic guy was distributing them online for free. This guy is a hero and will have to go court to be vindicated in some people's eyes but not mine. Just because some government says something is illegal like
I sure hope the IQ of new media consumers is higher than that of the average old media watcher. I do not watch much news on TV. It is a waste of time. Well last night my friend is telling me about gas going up. We are in Georgia. So apparently the hurricane has disrupted a refinery in the Gulf
It was reported earlier this week that HP is thinking of making it's own flavor of Operating System for their computers. They have been apparently having a hard time trying to get HP machines work well with Vista. According to Business Week, they have a team that simply builds fixes and updates that can and will circumvent certain aspects of
For the second time in under a week Apple has rejected a Podcasting Application from The Apple App Store. Earlier in the week Cliff Ravencraft of GSPN had his Podcasting Application Rejected from the App Store as well.
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