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Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the most successful year for Mac OS X ever."...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-15-2008
Music Industry, Souring on Apple, Embraces Amazon Service

An interesting story from the New York Times , containing, as usual, a typical amount of pro-Apple history rewriting: At the Super Bowl next month, the music industry will be switching teams — from Apple to Amazon.com. The major record labels lined up with Pepsi-Cola and Apple four years ago to give...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-14-2008
Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' tops charts

So I'm not a huge fan of Radiohead, but I love what they did late last year by allowing fans to buy their latest album, "In Rainbows," digitally from their Web site for whatever price they felt was deserved. (I supported it by purchasing the album at the time.) Well, this week, the album...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-13-2008
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM

And just like that , Amazon.com MP3 becomes the best place to buy digital music online. I assume this kind of thing is giving Apple pause with regards to how they treat partners and customers going forward. In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-04-2008
Digital Media Core: Photo books and calendars

Following up on my slightly neglected "Digital Media Core" series, I'm investigating PC-based services that offer such things as photo calendars, photo books, and other photo-related gifts. To date, I've never seen anything as nice as iPhoto on the PC side (though to be fair, iPhoto...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-31-2007
Facts and figures from the high-definition DVD wars

The New York Times this morning published an interesting article describing the battle over next-generation DVD formats: What if nobody wins the high-definition DVD format wars? That increasingly looks to be the situation for the next-generation DVD technology, which is available to consumers in two...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-31-2007
Amazon MP3 Adds Music Audio Downloads from Warner Music Group

Looks like Amazon's budding MP3 download service just got a lot better : Amazon.com and Warner Music Group today announced that DRM-free music audio downloads from Warner Music Group are now available to customers on Amazon MP3, Amazon's a la carte MP3 digital music store where every song and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-27-2007
DVD Movies With an iTunes Copy: Worth More?

Saul Hansell blogs about Apple's new scheme to include iTunes-compatible digital movies with DVDs for an additional few bucks: The long standoff between Apple and Hollywood over movie downloads may be heading for a resolution. As of right now, Disney, of which Steve Jobs is a director and large shareholder...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-06-2007
The Future of Reading

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is on the cover of Newsweek this week discussing his company's new eBook effort. As usual, you have to get past Steve Levy's unnecessarily weighty prose to find out what's really going on, so let's skip all the exposition and get to heart of the matter: "Music...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-19-2007
Two days only: Free (and cheap) movie classics on Amazon Unbox

Amazon's video service, Unbox, is offering a number of movie classics for free . Some are purchases, in that they never expire, while others are rented, meaning you must watch them within 30 days or they expire. If you haven't checked out Unbox yet, this is a no-cost way to do so, though of course...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-16-2007

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