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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
CinemaNow now available through Windows Media Center

From Microsoft via email: CinemaNow’s library of over 3,400 feature-length movies is now available through Windows Media Center. This means that you can download and watch “Sweeney Todd” or “Juno” tonight, without a cable TV subscription. All you need is Windows Media Center...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-23-2008
Napster Launches World’s Largest MP3 Store Featuring 6 Million Tracks

Napster becomes the second online music service (after Amazon MP3) to offer DRM-free tracks from all of the major recording companies: Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store . Napster’s...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-20-2008
The Netflix Player

While I'm not sure the world was asking for Yet Another Set Top Box (YAST, trademark is patent-pending), this should be of interest to Netflix customers at least: The Netflix Player makes it easy to instantly watch movies and TV episodes over the Internet on your living room TV, or anywhere you have...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-20-2008
Site work, part deux

In keeping with yesterday's post about work on the site design , I made a few small changes today.... The What I Use page was finally updated (I had done this mostly a month ago but there was a screwy formatting problem). I also updated the Windows and Cloud Computing activity centers (from a content...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-18-2008
HBO heads to iTunes

Can we finally put the "no variable pricing on iTunes" baloney to the side. It's never really been true and it's pretty clear that Apple will actually bend over backwards for content providers if the company feels it's important enough. Case in point: HBO just joined iTunes today...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-13-2008
Microsoft is NOT working on a copyright check for Zune

Contrary to a blog posting on The New York Times Web site, Microsoft is not seeking to implement technology that will erase or block copied copyrighted content in the Zune. CNET's Ina Fried reports : The New York Times blog cites Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn as saying that the software maker is...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-08-2008

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