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Quick News: EMI DRM-less Music Going Strong and More
EMI let out the first bits on what the customers think about DRM-less files. So far? Sales are going great, for instance Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album typically sold 830 units/week with DRM. Now with the new format they're averaging 3,600 units/week. Shizam!YouTube is going international on us. They have now added localized versions of the site to Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the UK.Why does it always seem like Canada gets the awesome Xbox bundles first? Last generation it was the translucent green Xbox, and now they're getting a 360 bundle that comes with a free copy of Forza 2.And you knew it was coming, but now it's official. The Kutarag-ster, Ken Kutaragi, had his last day at Sony. Seems like only yesterday he was ushering in the PS1. Memories...
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Quick News: Blockbuster goes Blu-ray and More
In a mainstream blow for HD DVD, Blockbuster formally decided to pickup Blu-ray as it's direction for HD disc rentals. If only there were an online version of Blockbuster that carried both formats... More »
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Quick News: Sony's Making Money and More
You can add Flickr to the list of major websites that China has taken the ban-stick to. At first Yahoo thought it was just a technical glitch, but later found out that the images were actually being blocked. More »
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Quick News: Mad Catz Makes a Profit and More
Peripheral maker Mad Catz made a profit of $6.4 million. If that's true, then peripheral manufacturing is the market to get into. Since I have never touched a MadCatz product that didn't suck, and they're making a profit. More »
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Quick News: Yahoo CTO Heads Out and More
Google is in the process of acquiring yet another company. This time it's Panoramio, a Spanish photo-sharing website that specializes in location tags for their images. More »
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Quick News: Vatican Goes Solar and More
Comcast was so close, they released a new service called TVplanner that allows you to search through you're TV listings online. All seemed promising until we realized there isn't any remote DVR programming. More »
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Quick News: Facebook Goes 3rd Party and More
Social networking site Facebook announced that it will begin to allow anyone to upload user-created applications to the site through the evolution of what they call Facebook Platform. You'll even be able to grab revenue off of your own ad space. More »
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Quick News: HP In Space and More
HP won an a contract with NASA worth $5.6 billion dollars. The contract will have HP supplying the US space agency with computers, servers and printers for the next seven years. More »
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Quick News: Bunny Porn and More
For those of you who have been trying to keep their computers Microsoft-free by using OpenOffice, be weary of a new macro worm. Upon activation it will automatically start downloading bunny-man porn. More »
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Quick News: AllofMP3.com Raid and More
The little phone provider that could, Alltel Wireless, was picked up for a very respectable $27.5 billion. Surprisingly, Verizon didn't end up being the admirer, it turned out to be a combination of investors, TPG & GS Capital. More »
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Quick news: Countries Block the Internet and More
This looks like to be the first real benefit from adding a Blu-ray drive to the PS3. Midway's unreleased game, Stranglehold, will come with an HD version of the movie Hard Boiled, making it the first Game/Blu-ray single disc. More »
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Stanford University has hit a new low. In what looks to be an effort to stay off of the Motion Picture Association of America's list of worst downloading universities. Stanford has decided to start issuing $100-$1000 reconnect fees if you don't respond to a DMCA complaint.
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Quick News: Stanford Bows to MPAA and More
Stanford University has hit a new low. In what looks to be an effort to stay off of the Motion Picture Association of America's list of worst downloading universities. Stanford has decided to start issuing $100-$1000 reconnect fees if you don't respond to a DMCA complaint.
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Quick News: Wal-Mart Loves Skype and More
CBS showed today that they are at least starting to understand what consumers want. They are planning on syndicating their online content to other sites like Joost or AOL, instead of keeping it all on CBS.com. More »
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Quick News: Sprint's Lifesaving GPS and More
Hitachi is betting that you like your storage fast and portable with their latest drive the Travelstar 7K200. This laptop drive will give you 200 GB of storage at 7200 rpm, and it still manages to keep heat and power consumption down. More »
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Quick News: Comcast, Akon and More
Joost added two new partners today, Warner Bros. and Heavy.com. While Heavy.com will be showing off new content, Warner plans on only shelling out "vintage" shows. More »
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Quick News: Comcast, Humvee, and More
Those sneaky German car manufacturers are at it again. Volkswagen was caught using invisible text on their website in order to gain more hits from Google. More »
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