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Photosynth comes out of the lab

Microsoft has taken its Photosynth Live Labs project ( previous site ) public: We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com . Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. ...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-20-2008
The Lessons From the Kindle’s Success

As I've often noted here, I love the Kindle. I realize it's still too expensive, but it's an amazing eBook reader, with daily newspapers and other periodicals that are automatically downloaded to the device, a pervasive wireless network and device-based online store, and the best collection...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-13-2008
Xbox 360 and Netflix Team Up

Looks like Netflix customers are going to have another avenue for enjoying movie content this fall: An exciting new home theater experience is coming to living rooms this holiday season. At E3, Microsoft and Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
RealNetworks goes DRM-free

So RealNetwork announced this morning that it is just the latest online music service to offer DRM-free MP3 tracks. What's interesting about this is the press they're getting: Apparently no one realizes that the Rhapsody subscriptions still use DRM. Anyhoo, here are a few links: Taking the Wraps...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-30-2008
(More) High quality Vista wallpapers

I while back, I wrote about Hamad Darwish and the high-quality Windows Vista wallpapers he had made, both those that are included with the OS and many more that are similar but not included with Vista. (You can find the complete collection here .) But wait, there's more. It turns out that some of...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-22-2008
Apple sells over 5 billion songs via iTunes Store

From Apple PR : Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
MSN Music Store Support Notification

Bowing to complaints, Microsoft announces they're doing the right thing. Via email: On April 22, Microsoft notified you that as of August 31st, 2008, we would be changing the level of support for music purchased from MSN Music, and while your existing purchased music would continue to play, you would...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
Top 10 Tech Podcasts: #5, Windows Weekly

A nice bit of praise from Automated Home, which is much appreciated: Podcasts, netcasts, time shifted radio and IPTV. Whatever they are, they've come of age. Less and less of my time is spent consuming regular TV and Radio these days as my hunger for tech-tainment grows. I listen...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
OK, AAC failed. How about MT9?

Seriously, give me a break : The Motion Pictures Experts Group, otherwise known as MPEG, will meet this month in Germany to consider making a new digital audio format called MT9 an international standard. Developed by the South Korean company Audizen, the MT9 format -- commercially known as Music 2.0...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-18-2008
Amazon cuts price of the Kindle

I didn't see an announcement about this, but it looks like Amazon has cut the price of the Kindle (see my review) from $399 to $359 . I'm of two minds about this: First, they'll need to cut deeper to turn this thing into any kind of mass market phenomenon (though Jeff Bezos claimed just this...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-27-2008

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