Music Industry Shifting its Tune

Music industry anti-piracy lawsuits may become history. Disputes and aggressive actions against those who download music and songs without paying for them is most likely a thing of the past.

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List of Dead Scientists

This is a strange website with alist of scientists having passed of mysterious deaths. It's rather morbid to read so many obituaries but the data when compiled seems very strange.

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AT&T sues data brokers for stolen customer records - Yahoo! News

The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court division in San Antonio, said the "John Doe" defendants often collected information for use in legal or domestic disputes.

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AT&T sues data brokers for stolen customer records - Yahoo! News

The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court division in San Antonio, said the "John Doe" defendants often collected information for use in legal or domestic disputes.

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SanDisk Aims At iPod With Its Sansa 8GB Music Player - Yahoo! News

The 8-gigabyte Sansa e280 carries a $249.99 price and is positioned against Apple Computer's best selling iPod Nano. The new Sansa has an optional SanDisk 2GB microSD card, which enables music to be swapped from the Sansa to mobile phones equipped with microSD card slots.

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Dell stops selling Ditty music players - Yahoo! News

Dell Inc. has quietly pulled the plug on its DJ Ditty music players, less than a year after the world's largest computer maker launched the device to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod Shuffle.

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Review: Mac Pro beats Dell on price

For years,Macintosh computers have been praised for their cool looks and elegant simplicity while being knocked for often carrying a hefty price premium over Windows-based machines sold by Dell Inc. and others. It's time to think different again.

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US supply of rice contaminated

US supply of rice contaminated

The US Food supply is contaminatedby gentically modified food crops. This particular contamination seems safe but here is a greatline from this story.

"If we become aware of any new information to suggest that food or feed is unsafe, we will take action"

What the fuck kind of action do you take to stop the contamination of our food supplies? Read the article. they stopped testing the crop on 01 and it showed up in the 05 crops. How the fuck did it get there? Who put it in the gene pool?

This is a form of pollution. Possibly the worse form. Genetic pollution of the planets food supply is no joking matter. Read the fine print in the article and see who benefits the most. Aventis stands to gain if this strain infects the planets rice gene pool. Can you imagine every rice farmer in the world forced to buy Avetis weedkiller because of a corporate slip up? The testing ended in 2001 and it showed up in the 2005 crops. How do you think that happened?

Here is the best line in the whole article.
"If we become aware of any new information to suggest that food or feed is unsafe, we will take action,"

What action do you think they can take in the future to stop the spread. Isn't it best to get to it now while the contamination is small and controllable? What if they fail to gain approval for this strain because of adverse allergic reactions?

What would the world be like if one of the planets most important food crops is rendered useless because of genetic tampering by corporations looking to lock up patents on our food supplies? They are turning the tables on us folks. What used to grow free from gods green earth is now protected by patent laws.

Whats next GM water? Will PepsiCo come up with an improved and patented version of good old H20 some day and license it to us all?

Food is a building block of all life and should not be protected by patents. It's a crime to contaminate the food supply and these people should pay with their lives in my opinion. They should be tried and judged by a jury of their peers and executed in public for crimes against humanity.

Now, the Zune DRM Thing Gets Interesting

Article discusses the Microsoft DRM and it's use in Xbox XNA and the upcoming Zune music player.

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Samsung Guns for Apple's iPod with new music phone

Yet another company guns for Apple
�this time with a music-playing phone.
Samsung Electronics has developed a music-playing cell phone with a whopping 8GB of built-in flash memory, according to IDG News Service.

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The Electronic Times Internet

Samsung Electronics has developed a music-player cell phone with 8 gigabytes of memory -- double the amount in Apple Computer's hit-iPod nano.

The company unveiled a mobile phone equipped with a 8-gigabyte hard disk, representing what it claims is the world's largest storage capacity for a handset.

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Microsoft considers discounts for Vista

Microsoft Corp. is considering discounts or other promotions during the holidays to entice consumers to upgrade their PCs with Windows Vista, even though the new operating system isn
�t due to hit store shelves until January at the earliest.

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Google defends Net neutrality regulations - CNET News.com

During in-person debate, telecom executives claim Google is hypocritical on Net neutrality and worried about search competition.

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Negroponte: $100 laptop trials to kick off - CNET News.com

Widespread field tests of portable PCs for children in the developing world will start next month, the project's chairman says.

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Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs - CNET News.com

Malicious code that exploits a recent Windows hole is leading to growth in the number of hijacked PCs, CipherTrust says.

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Microsoft puts cybersquatters on notice - CNET News.com

Tech titan files three lawsuits accusing Web site operators of profiting illegally from domain names that use its trademarks.

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Zune, Xbox, XNA Game Studio and new Microsoft DRM combined makes powerhouse

Article discusses the new Xbox XNA Game Studio Framework and tie ins with Microsoft Zune Music Video player. Draws some interesting conclusions in regards to what Microsoft may have planned with the new portable media players and user generated content available being made available for commercial sale through a new DRM. Sony and Apple be warned!

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Can Anyone Stop the iPod?

SanDisk entered the portable media player space 18 months ago, but launched a full-scale attack this summer with its iDon
�t campaign. The crusade, promoting its Sansa players, pictured animals such as the iSheep wearing white earbuds, accompanied by slogans like �the walking iDead.�

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Gates: We're entering 'live era' of software

Kicking off what he called the "live era" of software, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company plans to launch new Internet-based complements to its core products.

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Microsoft Confirms Live Drive Service

Microsoft has confirmed further details of its forthcoming Live Drive service, which will offer free online storage which can be mapped directly from PCs running the forthcoming Vista operating system.

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Zune to come pre-loaded with video and audio content

The Zune insiders at Madison and Pine have confirmed that video and audio content will be included in the Zune. The list of content includes Subpop�s CSS and Hot Chip on the Astralwerks label.

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The Gold-Plated Porsche

A German company gilds a Porsche Boxster in 22 carat gold

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Real to offer Windows Media on Linux by December

Mainstream media player increases Linux's appeal, vendor argues.

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Wannabe games designers get helping hand from Microsoft

Microsoft's bloggers have been grabbing lots of attention lately, from the Zune Insider man to the Vista engineer who ate humble pie after an awful cock-up with the new OS's speech recognition.

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The Perils Of DRM: Xbox Live Arcade

By this time next year, all the major console manufacturers will have some kind of online marketplace for downloadable content. Both the Playstation 3 and Nintendo
�s Wii will have something similar to Microsoft�s Xbox Live Marketplace so that gamers can download (and pay for) additional content and games.

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Microsoft Zune set to hit stores soon at $299

Microsoft is in the process of unveiling to select retailers the first of its line of Zune wearable digital audio players and informed retailers it will offer a single unit this fall, available in three colors at a suggested retail price of $299

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Zune in the News

Cesar Menendez, a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project offers some humor for us today with some of his favorite Zune jokes.

Cesar seems most impressed with the Zune to Zune sharing features. He thinks the community aspects of searching for and finding new music online is what sets the Zune apart from the iPod.

We have to agree that the Zune appears to be much more than just an MP3 player. Hopefully soon we'll learn more about the new Zune live community.

Apple facing court over DRM 'smokescreen'

Apple has responded to complaints by Norway's consumer watchdog - that it uses unfair practices by making its iTunes service incompatible with rivals systems - by refuting the claims and championing its use of DRM.

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Technology connecting soldiers to home brings new anxieties

Instant-message systems, Web cameras and other forms of technology have given military families unprecedented access to their loved ones in combat.
But the technology has also stirred up new anxieties, as family members learn more details about the warfront than ever before. And it's raised new concerns for the military.

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iPod avoids guillotine in France

A proposed amendment to the French law requiring Apple to open it's DRM to competitors states that those being forced to open their DRM should receive compensation for doing so.

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Shakira, Red Hot Chili Peppers Set To Storm MTV Video Awards

The nominations for the MTV Video Awards ceremony were announced by Beyonce Knowles, as MTV celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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AOL Emerges as Video Search Giant

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL division said Monday it will enter the growing download-to-own video and search market later this week when it begins selling TV programs like "South Park," "Flip This House," and "Babylon 5."

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Vista voice recognition not yet up to scratch

A video showing a failed public demonstration of Windows Vista's voice recognition technology has emerged.

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Apple responds to Nordic iTunes complaints

Apple has replied to criticism of its iTunes digital rights management policy, meeting a deadline set by consumer agencies in Scandinavia, an advisor at Norway's Consumer Council said on Tuesday.

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VoIP Delivers CRM Power to Small Businesses

Asked to define CRM, most enterprise executives will tell you it's the process of moving a company from a product-centric focus to a customer-centric one. Since customers ultimately write your paycheck, it's not hard to see why enterprises have embraced this concept and the technology to enable it.

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US social networking ban could unfairly block some sites

The US House of Representatives has voted by an overwhelming majority to ban social networking sites in schools and libraries. Critics have warned that the ban could apply to a wide variety of sites, some of them of vital educational value.

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