Apr 25, 2006 | business, hardware, WinXP
Many people are buying new computers with Windows XP Media Center Edition – it’s the version pre-installed on most consumer PCs these days. Its most visible feature is essentially a program named “Media Center” that takes over the screen to...
Apr 3, 2006 | audio, business, DRM, security, video
Sony is gearing up its marketing department behind Blu-Ray DVDs, its next-generation disc for high definition movies. Toshiba and its partners are lined up behind HD DVD, a different, incompatible format. Sony hopes that you’ll buy its Blu-Ray players and movies...
Feb 12, 2006 | business, web_services
Zillow.com launched its beta web site a few days ago, offering free access to real estate information that has been hard to come by until now. (It’s been added to the bruceb favorites page under Home-Family / Realty).Zillow displays estimates of the market value...
Feb 6, 2006 | business, spam
AOL & Yahoo are going to allow spam to reach mailboxes if the senders pay a fee for each message. Here’s an article about the new system.It’s hard to predict the result, but my gut feeling is that it’s a disaster for consumers. AOL & Yahoo...
Jan 29, 2006 | business, law
Here’s a fascinating article about the sequence of events leading up to Blackberry’s precarious position – the possibility that the entire Blackberry system will be shut down next month. It’s a “twisted tale of bold inventions, hubris,...
Jan 22, 2006 | broadband, business, Internet
AT&T Chariman Ed Whitacre made seemingly outrageous comments in November about imposing additional charges on consumers or Google or Yahoo if we used “his” Internet pipes for things he didn’t approve of. Here’s my comments about that...
