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Review: Sony streaming media player SMP-N100

George Gardner — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:46:21 +0000

I’ve been searching some time for a device that will stream media on my television from my wireless network. The Sony SMP-N100 Network Media Player recently caught my eye as a serious contender. Given the awesome features promised, combined with the recent price drop, [...] Related posts:

Indie labels: ‘Keep music special, eff Spotify’

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:04:32 +0000

It’s been repeated ad naseum that Spotify isn’t iTunes. No one knows that better than the independent labels that increasingly dominate the creation and distribution of music. That said, pay forever music isn’t paying the bills for indies and provides little if any long term value for users.

VentureBeat reports that the [...] Related posts:

Adobe controls Flash settings on your computer

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:18:19 +0000

Piczilla has been on the receiving end of much grief, famously from Steve Jobs and more recently Microsoft, vis-a-vis Flash Player security. With the release of version 10 and faster responses to known issues, Adobe’s been getting less flack. Nevertheless, Flash is still far from safe.

If you’re like me, you turned [...] Related posts:

Apple, consider this a wake up call

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:54:40 +0000

When it comes to operating system security breaches, Apple is best known for silence. Until, that is, the company has worked out a fix and is ready to release it. However, that approach might not work vis-a-vis iTunes fraud, especially when one of the victims just happens to be a prominent state attorney [...] Related posts:

Cable cutting gains steam

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:26:11 +0000

My wife and I hate recurring payments (i.e. debt with no possibility of payback), so we cut the cable three years ago and haven’t looked back. A fresh series of reports out of the subscriber TV business says we have a lot more friends.

Associated Press (Yahoo) is reporting loses by subscription [...] Related posts:

Netflix just keeps on growing

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:18:09 +0000

Whenever the analysts talk about Netflix they throw in some doom and gloom, saying that the spectacular growth of the video rental company can’t continue. Yet every time Netflix just gets bigger.

There seem to be a million reasons why Netflix [...] Related posts:

Video streaming to iPad controversial

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:50:30 +0000

When Time Warner cable buys the rights to video content, everyone naturally expects that the content will wind up on televisions sets everywhere. But some people think that the same content should not wind up on iPads.

Naturally, since Time Warner [...] Related posts:

Amazon launches cloud music, gets drop on iTunes

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:12:04 +0000

Amazon has announced a service which will allow users to upload their music to a server in the cloud and then play it from anywhere, something that has been rumored for ages from both Apple and Google.

Everyone [...] Related posts:

When is a laptop not more than an iPad?

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:47:51 +0000

It is becoming increasingly difficult to define the role of the tablet computer, such as the iPad, and how the tablet compares to laptop computers. It seems likely that the tablet is just one more PC morphology.

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Spotify raising fortune for U.S. launch

Dave Parrack — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:54:42 +0000

Spotify is about to receive a very large chunk of new funding which would value the company at around $1 billion.

As well as Spotify has done so far and continues to do in Europe, it has its sights set [...] Related posts: