BMG has apparently been caught with some egg on their faces. They issued a YouTube media take down on a Romney political ad that had a small clip of the President singing Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". After being called out on it, and told that the same clips of the President Singing was on a huge number of YouTube
Supermarket Tesco and on-line movie site Blinkbox have introduced a new innovation to the UK where the purchase of a physical DVD or Bluray at Tesco also buys an online copy at Blinkbox. At today's launch there are only about 25 movies included in the offer but more will be added to the service over time. The big blockbusters available now are Harry Potter and the Deathly
Ken Plotkin, the CEO of Hauppage (www.hauppauge.com), describes the Colossus HD H.264 Video Recorder PCI Express card for the PC. The Colossus card is designed to record high definition video from sources such as an X-Box 360, Playstation 3, as well as high definition video coming from a cable TV or satellite box via component video outputs on those devices,
New technology always disrupts. This has always been true, whether it was the invention of the wheel, the automobile, or modern electronics. With each new disruption, interactive business and social commerce is disturbed. Established business and social models are suddenly rendered partially or fully dysfunctional. For every new disruptive technology that comes along, an old business model is broken and
The London-based think tank Demos has concluded that illegal downloaders spend more money on music. The headline figure, based on the survey of over 1000 people between 16 and 65, is that the average spend per annum on CDs or vinyl was £75 (GBP) for file-sharers compared with only £51 for all surveyed. The notion that illegal downloaders actually spend more
I've been seeing this more and more. You have to upgrade a product - a home (free) edition or something. You press the link and it sends you to a page that talks about upgrading. In fact, everything this page screams is "We don't have the free version, you must buy an upgrade to continue". But if you scan the
Check out this screenshot. Tell me why it's an Oxymoron: If you said "This is an Associated Press article - I CANNOT share it on Mixx, Buzz, Digg, Reddit, Facebook or Newswire", then you are correct! If you go to the A.P.s site, you do not see any sharing widgets. However, if you go to the sites that pay for