World War II was won by the Allied forces, not only because we were right, but also because we had more men and women, more weaponry and more money, and that money in turn would train more men and women and build more weaponry.
“But being fair, and being just, is what allowed our civilized society [...]
Does AT&T know how to craft a competitive value proposition or does AT&T know how to craft a competitive value proposition?
This morning, the company said it will soon offer wireless customers the ability to download music over the air from Napster–at a 50% to 100% markup over iTunes and Amazon MP3. AT&T is charging $1.99 [...]
Well, this is sure to set a cat among the pigeons who still believe they have a God-given right to control the retail distribution and pricing of music.
Recently freed of its contractual obligation to major label EMI Group, top-selling British rock band Radiohead is releasing its seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” on Oct. 10 as [...]
Apple’s not going to turn iTunes into the Microsoft Windows of the digital music space if Amazon can help it. This morning the retailer announced the public beta of its much-anticipated music download service, breathlessly touting it as “the world’s biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads.”
Amazon MP3, as the company’s cleverly [...]
Sony ATRAC is at long last joining Betamax, MiniDisc, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, HiFD, (pause for breath) Multi-Media Compact Disc, Memory Stick and Super Audio CD in the company’s Museum of Failed Formats.
After an overlong and unsuccessful campaign to spread adoption of ATRAC, Sony is scrapping the proprietary audio format. This morning the company said [...]
Alcatel-Lucent’s astonishing $1.52 billion jury verdict against Microsoft would have done much to bolster the company’s sagging fortunes. But the Franco-American telecommunications equipment maker is going to have to look elsewhere for financial solace.
Finding that a jury’s decision was “against the clear weight of the evidence,” a federal judge yesterday overturned the February verdict that [...]
The MP3 player that can put 1,000 songs in your pocket can also send 100 million or so volts through your head if you’re unlucky enough to be struck by lightning while wearing it. A letter published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine reports that a Vancouver jogger suffered serious injuries when he [...]
Faced with the prospect of losing its long-sought entry into the World Trade Organization, the Russian government has finally dropped the hammer on AllofMP3.com, a digital music storefront that peddles songs for pennies thanks to a loophole in Russian law. “Allofmp3.com violated copyright law in Russia and internationally by ripping off artists and creators, [...]
In his much discussed “Thoughts on Music” essay, Apple CEO Steve Jobs argued that by protecting music with Digital Rights Management restrictions, music companies were stifling the very innovations that might sustain them. “If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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