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February 2004
- SW on DVD? Is that a white light?
- It appears that I may well have died and gone to… well, somewhere. Starwars.com announced today that come September 21, 2004 we will be able to purchase a 4-Disc :DVD: set of the original Star Wars trilogy. That’s, right: it’s finally coming to DVD. Star... full entry
- Intel’s P4(E): Prescott
- AnandTech has a very lengthy and in-depth article up today about Intel’s newest chip, the Prescott core Pentium 4. This chip will be differentiated from previous versions with the “E” designation, so a 2.8GHz Prescot core will be a “Pentium 4 2.8E”. For those who... full entry
January 2004
- Linus Torvalds on SCO
- Business Week has a nice, fairly short interview with Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Most of us are aware at least of the fact that SCO has been almost as lawsuit-crazy as the :RIAA: recently. Anyway, the interview is good and there are a couple of... full entry
- Apple and Pepsi vs. RIAA
- We already know how Apple’s flying circles just outside the RIAA‘s borders, seemingly taunting them. People have speculated if it was intentional, or just conjecture. Well, on February 1st, during the Superbowl, the issue will be out in the open. Pepsi and Apple, as you... full entry
- I do love me some British Parliament
- Hoyle/Lindsay of the Labour Party signed an EDM discussing iPod batteries. That this House notes with concern the difficulty people are having in replacing batteries for iPods, the new pocket sized walkmans; notes that iPods were a favourite Christmas present, with a value of between... full entry
- nintendo is going to steal from me again
- How can I resist? They obviously sit around on trans-Pacific conference calls in Seattle and Tokyo discussing, “What’s the next ridiculous thing that we can do that will take Derek’s money?” Aside from the N64 and Virtual Boy, they have always succeeded. Those two were... full entry
- mikerowesoft.com
- I almost put this up yesterday, but I honestly didn’t think it was that big a deal. However, the blogging and news community seem to really have latched on to this story about a 17 year old being “harassed” my big, bad Microsoft. You can... full entry
- Continuing the iPod Theme…
- Why stop doing something that works? With all the recent discussion regarding the iPod and iPod mini, I figured it would be natural to mention another piece of related news: Today, Apple and Hewlett-Packard announced a partnership so that H-P can sell rebranded iPods. The... full entry
- iPod mini… Does it go up to 11?
- I posted an article a while back talking about rumors of a forthcoming “miniature” iPod. Well, in the MacExpo keynote yesterday, the iPod mini was released. Derek mentioned as much in his post yesterday. Well, we certainly aren’t the only people wondering what the hell... full entry
- My MacExpo ‘04 Highlights
- As most people know, today was the day of the keynote address from Steve Jobs at Apple’s MacExpo San Francisco. There were some pretty significant announcements, as well as some recaps and highlights of Apple’s successes. Considering that this is the first MacExpo in the... full entry
- Big Criaack of lies
- Wow—is anybody buying this garbage? Reports are flying left and right at how the RIAA‘s lawsuits have successfully pulled the reigns in of music piracy and internet file sharing. Although critics roundly accused the RIAA of bullying music lovers with the lawsuits, those tactics appear... full entry
December 2003
- What do you Think… Mini-iPod?
- If rumors are true, then Apple may soon be releasing what’s being dubbed as a mini-iPod. Said to be “pocket-size[d]”, offered in capacities of 2 and 4:GB:, and starting around $100 US, I think this could be a real winner for Apple. I know that... full entry
November 2003
- Nice Try, Uncle Spam..er..Sam
- To win the award for best “Nice Try But Waste of Your Time” legislature, the Senate has passed the bill introduced in the House of Representatives to help reduce spam. The idea is that, like the Do Not Call list, this bill allows the FTC... full entry
- Online Music… in 1909
- So… it seems that way back in 1909 “residents of Wilmington, DE, were able to subscribe to an online music service that piped phonograph recordings over their telephone lines and through loudspeakers.” We all know what happened after that, of course: the music industry collapsed... full entry
- Screw you, Consumers!
- Cory Doctorow over on Boing Boing said if far better than I ever could regarding the recent ruling about the “Broadcast Flag” proposal. The FCC today decided that it didn’t need to listen to the tens of thousands of Americans that wrote to it, asking... full entry
October 2003
- Library of Amazonia
- The title here is rather lame and cliched, but I’m not the only one using it and whatever else you might say it certainly fits. Yesterday, Amazon.com introduced a new Search Inside the Book feature. What this does is search the text—the entire text!—of over... full entry
- The Online Music Entry
- Today, we’ll be talking about online music, kids. Or, at least, music that you download from the internet and other things associated with it. First up, we have Apple’s iTunes service, which was just released for Windows users. Yep, now us Windows lusers can get... full entry
- LotR Trilogy Screenings
- New Line Cinema will be showing theater screenings of the extended editions of the first two LotR movies. Apparently there will be several days screening of the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring followed by another several days for the extended version of The... full entry
September 2003
- Number Portability
- November 24, the date on which number portability—the ability to keep your phone number if you change phone carriers—is set to be required. Unfortunately, the phone companies are back at it again and trying to get yet another delay on this action. This is after... full entry
- VeriSign to ICANN: Piss Off!
- Well, Verisign did finally respond to :ICANN:’s request to suspend the SiteFinder service. In a letter to ICANN from Verisign Executive Vice President Russell Lewis, he said, in not so many words: ”Piss off, ICANN! We’ll do what we want.” Not very surprisingly, Versign was... full entry
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