In a move totally out of redmond, Microsoft has added time limiting features for parents to enforce on their kids for when they’re playing games. It can be set on a per day or per week basis, so the kids can’t even play a lot of video games at weekends.
It’s almost like Microsoft want kids [...]
The One Laptop Per Child Program, in efforts to spread sub-$200 computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, has reached a milestone with the start of mass production.
The nonprofit spinoff from MIT said assembly lines for its “XO” laptops were fired up on Tuesday at a Quanta Computer factory in China. Meaning children (and donors) should begin getting the [...]
Now, on ticketmaster’s site you can, when ordering a song, get an option to buy an album from the specific artist you’re going to see via iTunes, a very nice collaboration of web apps.
“The ability to connect live and recorded music, concert tickets and album sales is the future of the music business,” stated David Marcus, SVP [...]
According to the analysis company brought in to study the spending patterns of the people downloading Radiohead’s album “In Rainbows”, showing that most downloads were free. 62% of the downloads were put to customers for free, with the typical charge coming from people who paid to be around the £3. Somehow I figure that this [...]
Good news from o2 for once, they’ve realized that the term “unlimited” means “unlimited”, not “200 MB a month, then we’ll cut you off”. Better than lying to your customers through your teeth thanks to small print.
Oh, in other news, they’re holding back my iPhone for an extra two minutes, launching them at 6.02pm on friday. [...]
Seeing as everyone thinks plasma is a large TV, LG decided to go back to 1998 and make a 32″ plasma display, I fail to see why, because it will be more expensive then it’s competitors lower priced LCDs, but if you just have to be anal about what technology your TV uses, then i [...]
Yahoo Music manager, Ian Rogers spoke out and stated quite the obvious “I’m here to tell you that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap.” He continued with “If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! (and) put more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested.” That’s pretty much [...]
So, i got the email today, saying that Jaiku was “joining” google. By joining I really mean “being swallowed” Still, this doesn’t sound much like the online “presence” company is doing anything of substance with them yet. Twitter still gets me, easier to understand and far less directed solely for profit.
Plans between the two companies [...]
McDonalds has announced that it’s freeing the in-store WiFi hotspots and giving the service away for free, probably to attract the same kind of people who sit in starbucks, sipping coffee, reading newspapers and checking their stock prices. Now, to me, this sounds like a bad idea. What could i know, but this sounds like [...]
Apple today announced that it would step up and use the ZFS file system and make it compatible with OS X as of Leopard. The good news is twofold here, it means OS X’s filesystem is no longer Apple only and open source and it also means that Time Machine may use ZFS to work, [...]