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• Microsoft Reveals Bing Video Experience

  Microsoft today expanded the capabilities of its Bing decision engine to include a new Bing Video destination that combines Bing video search and quality content from MSN Video. The integrated experience provides a new online video destination that delivers... Posted Nov 11 2009, 12:26 PM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Major Update to Windows 7 Media Center: Netflix, Internet TV, More

  Brian Staton dropped me a note just now, letting me know that the version of Windows Media Center in Windows 7 has gotten a significant update today, with the addition of Netflix and a new version of the Internet TV functionality, the latter of which... Posted Oct 20 2009, 04:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 23 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Digital media, Media Center

• AT&T enters 21st century, adds MMS to iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS

  Apple : MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is now available to AT&T customers. AT&T MMS requires iPhone OS 3.1 and a carrier settings update. Here's what it looks like (on a Mac) ... Unlike other iPhone updates I've installed via iTunes... Posted Sep 26 2009, 10:47 AM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Digital media, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Microsoft removes CableCARD limitations in Windows Media Center

  Now we're talking! As part of a wider press release around the CEDIA trade show this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a particularly onerous requirement around Windows Media Center that, until now, required customers to purchase a PC... Posted Sep 10 2009, 12:29 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Digital media, Media Center

• Apple offers up evolutionary iPod updates, Jobs at music event

  Today’s 9/9/9 Apple event was surprisingly light on surprises. Steve Jobs returned to the stage after almost a year’s absence and got a nice standing ovation. But Apple’s announcements were mostly lukewarm, and had been telegraphed weeks in advance. Among... Posted Sep 09 2009, 04:36 PM by pthurrott with | with 114 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media

• Looks like Zune HD supports apps too

  I'm dying to write about the Zune HD, but here's a bit more info in the build-up to the product's September launch: It will indeed support an applications and an app store, thus removing its one remaining competitive shortcoming with the iPod... Posted Aug 24 2009, 11:00 AM by pthurrott with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Zune, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live

  Sorry about the confusion yesterday, but Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live. Here's the word from Microsoft: Today, Microsoft is releasing its new Windows Live Movie Maker application globally.  As the first application within the Windows... Posted Aug 19 2009, 05:05 PM by pthurrott with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Windows Live, Digital media, Cloud computing, Vista

• Apple's growing slice of the music business – in pie charts

  Some good info from Fortune (and NPD): The NPD Group on Tuesday issued what at first appears to be a pair of contradictory facts: Apple now controls the largest share of the music business, its iTunes Store accounting for 25% of unit sales in the first... Posted Aug 18 2009, 06:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iTunes, Alt. Windows, Digital media

• Microsoft's Zune continues to struggle

  I think we all realize the Zune isn't exactly setting the world on fire. But in these days leading up to the release of the Zune HD, things have apparently gotten worse than ever . To be sure, the Zune provides a tiny, and apparently deteriorating... Posted Jul 30 2009, 04:12 AM by pthurrott with | with 82 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media, Commentary

• Microsoft shutting down MSN Soapbox

  No big surprise, since I was apparently the only non-Microsoft employee to ever use the service. (Never heard of it? You're not alone. It was Microsoft's "answer" to You Tube.) Here's an email I received this week: MSN will no longer... Posted Jul 22 2009, 06:37 AM by pthurrott with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Windows Live, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Windows Media Guide Beta

  I think this is new: I opened up Windows Media Player today in Windows 7 and saw the beta guide for the first time. Posted Jun 24 2009, 03:36 PM by pthurrott with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Windows Media, Digital media

• WWDC 2009: Time for a reality check

  Apple is providing its WWDC 2009 keynote address today, providing some interesting info about its Mac and iPhone platforms. But this is Apple we're talking about. So it's time for a reality check. 75 million Mac OS X users. Apple claimed that... Posted Jun 08 2009, 03:33 PM by pthurrott with | with 196 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mac, iPod, Alt. Windows, Humor, Digital media, Commentary, Events

• Instant 1080p HD on Xbox 360 this fall

  Today, during the Xbox keynote at E3 Microsoft announced that " Zune video on Xbox LIVE will feature instant on, smooth streaming content in 1080p HD with 5.1 surround sound . This technology was developed within the Zune team and provides a great... Posted Jun 01 2009, 05:34 PM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: Xbox 360, Zune, Digital media

• More details about the Zune HD and Zune/Xbox Live integration

  I had a talk with Microsoft regarding the Zune HD yesterday, after publishing my Zune HD Preview article. Here's what I learned. Why now? The real purpose of this week's Zune HD and Zune/Xbox Live integration announcement was to prime the gaming... Posted May 28 2009, 12:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: Xbox 360, Zune, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Netflix comes to Windows Media Center

  I was literally just wondering about this in the course of writing about Media Center for Windows 7 Secrets (and I couldn't get any of the third party Netflix plug-ins to work with the Media Center version in Windows 7). From Microsoft: As part of... Posted May 20 2009, 10:36 AM by pthurrott with | with 75 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Windows Media, Digital media, Media Center, Vista