Quick News: MySpace Goes a Courtin’?
Looks like it only took a little while for Yahoo to get their game on after dropping Terry Semel. The word is that they have been in talks with News Corp. for a possible trade. MySpace for a 25% stake in Yahoo ($9.5 billion). Want another reason to install Safari for Windows? better color management.…
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…
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… https://gizmodo.com/blockbuster-deals-blow-to-hd-dvd-camp-by-choosing-blu-r-269655 Google released a new blog focused on public policy today. And imagine this, it seems to be centered around a lot…
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. Many AT&T U-Verse customers were hoping for new features like multiple HD streams or whole home DVR…
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. http://kotaku.com/gaming/mad-skillz/mad-catz-see-mad-profitz-266313.php It was bound to happen, there is now at least one Blu-ray players that is cheaper/equal…
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. The Chief Technology Officer for Yahoo, Farzad Nazem, decided to call it quits after a 10-year run. His last day is June 8th. Please bring a baked good or…
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. And speaking of user-generated content, a US court ruled that websites can be held…
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. Nintendo set their prediction for the total lifetime Wii sales in North America at 35 million consoles, just shy of the PS2’s total from…
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. It’s not just terrorists that can take down power plants. Faulty networks can too. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Tennessee came to…
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. There’s a new place to properly recycle your old computers now, Staples. For $10 they’ll take any…
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. Apple’s got a new class-action lawsuit on their hands. This time MacBook and MacBook Pro users…
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. This is probably the last thing Vonage wanted to hear (Aside from Patent Infringement), but Skype has secured a…
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. A young boy has a new heart thanks to some quick thinking and…
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. Singer, Akon, found out that you can’t get away scott-free if you dry-hump a 15-year-old preacher’s daughter. Verizon Wireless has decided to no longer sponsor the concert tour he…
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. Hopefully you didn’t buy any DRAM two weeks ago. For some reason in just one week prices have dropped nearly 6%. And by “you” we mean big corporations that…
Quick News: Nintendo, Thailand, and More
It may not be full-fledged demo’s worth, but at least it’s something. Nintendo added 30 second clips to their Virtual Console website. Now you can make sure that the image in your head matches the real thing. Comcast has decided to combine email, voicemail & IM into one easy portal. They have tapped the open…
Quick News: HP, Canada and More
In a very unsurprising move, Yahoo! finally announced that they will kill off Yahoo! Photos. Instead they are asking their users to move on over to their other photo service Flickr. While most of the planet is moving to electronic currency, Canada is kicking it old school. They introduced a coin that is worth US…
Quick News: OLPC, ScreenTonic and More
How on earth is AOL losing customers when nearly every other ISP is posting thousands and thousands of new ones? And they didn’t just lose a few, they lost 1.18 million last quarter alone. And in the latest “me-too,” Microsoft, in an effort to hang with the cool kids, bought their own ad firm. They…