Archive for January, 2009
DRM Free iTunes?
According to this missive by Harry McCracken on Technologizer it seems that the iTunes store may be going DRM free for the remaining 3 major labels (Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner). iTunes is already DRM free for the other major label (EMI). Finally!
Sony Baloney
Steve Jobs blames emaciation on hormone imbalance. Twitter hacked to put up fake posts. China will be punishing search engines for linking to porn. Lenovo unveils clunker. Howard Stringer under pressure to do something at Sony. Freescale to roll out Netbook chip. Expert claims MSFT made huge money over "Vista Capable" scam. New Mac Mini […]
Steve Jobs Opens Up
Last week Apple’s stock went down on the combination of news that this will be the last year they present at Macworld and that CEO Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote. Speculation has been high over the last year that Jobs was ill and has led to poor stock performance (in addition to […]
Zune Bug Uproar Silly
Last week revealed an issue with first generation Zune 30s. Owners of this model were dismayed when they turned on their Zunes on December 31 only to find the unit reset itself and then got stuck in the reset process rendering the unit useless. Apparently there’s a bug in it’s software relating to leap years […]