Archive | February 10th, 2010
Breaking down Microsoft’s profits by product division [Chart]
Telling chart from Silicon Alley Insider breaking down Microsoft’s operating profits by product division. Makes you wonder how much longer they can continue ride the Office wave. And as for the Zune, the XBox and Microsoft’s other entertainment related endeavors, well, let’s just say that Office 2010 is gonna be off the hook!
Continue reading...Warner Music pulls their songs from all online streaming sites
10. February 2010
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Well this certainly sucks. Warner Music announced today that it will no longer license its catalogue of music for use on an assortment of music streaming sites, from Spotify to Last.fm, and of course, the ever popular Pandora. Explaining the decision, Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. stated, “Free streaming services are clearly not a [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: Hulu looking to make their videos iPad compatible
10. February 2010
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There’s no getting around the fact that Apple doesn’t like Flash, won’t support it on its mobile products, and never will. There’s also no getting around the fact that for as much as people seem to be ragging on Flash these days, a lot of popular content on the web is Flash only, with the [...]
Continue reading...More on Microsoft’s organizational clusterfuck and their struggle to innovate
10. February 2010
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Last week, former Microsoft VP Dick Brass penned a fascinating op-ed for the New York Times where he described why a company like Microsoft, despite having a plethora of extremely smart engineers, has been unable to innovate in proportion to its talent level. Brass described an organizational structure within Microsoft that actually worked against innovation, [...]
Continue reading...The first songs ever played on an iPod
10. February 2010
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Steve Jobs announced the first iPod on October 23, 2001. Though famously lampooned at first, the iPod went on to become Apple’s most iconic product. So on a slow news day, we thought we’d go back and look at the first songs ever played on an iPod in public. The first song demoed by Steve [...]
Continue reading...AT&T partners with Alacatel-Lucent and Ericcson for planned LTE rollout
10. February 2010
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AT&T announced today its plans to partner up with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericcson as it moves forward with its plan to deploy a 4G LTE broadband network. The selection of the two suppliers paves the way for AT&T’s planned field trials of LTE technology later this year, with commercial deployment scheduled to begin in 2011. AT&T’s [...]
Continue reading...Disney excited over iPad possibilities, calls device a game changer
10. February 2010
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During Disney’s earnings conference call yesterday, Disney CEO Bob Iger addressed a few questions about Apple’s forthcoming iPad and expressed his excitement over what he deemed to be a game-changing device. When asked about new digital business models and what type of content Disney is working on in light of the iPad, Iger responded: We [...]
Continue reading...How to watch any video on your iPod or iPhone in portrait mode
10. February 2010
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If you watch a lot of video on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed that some videos work in both portrait and landscape mode while others work only in landscape. If, for some reason, you want to keep your video options as open as possible at all times, there’s a handy workaround [...]
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10. February 2010
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