From the monthly archives:

March 2007

Steve Ballmer Silhouette Zune Ad

28 March 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Apple

The infamous September 2000 video of CEO Steve Ballmer going nuts at a Microsoft 25th anniversary pep rally will likely go down in tech history as one of the funniest videos ever. Now in true Web 2.0 fashion, some anonymous soul has “mashed-up” that video with the famous iPod silhouette ads to create [...]

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Banning Legos

27 March 2007 Politics

John J. Miller writes about Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle, where two teachers banned the popular children’s toy Legos. Well, actually Legos were banned and then reintroduced. The explanation is really best left to the “experts”–the teachers. In an article published in Rethinking Schools, they explain it has to do [...]

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Computerworld explains why Apple’s ‘consumer’ Macs are enterprise-worthy

16 March 2007 Apple

Not too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees. But for a number of reasons, word of the benefits of Apple Inc. hardware — and software — on enterprise desktops is now spreading….
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Sizing up the IPTV Experience

16 March 2007

Tagged as: IPTV

Communications

Sean Buckley of Telecommunications magazine writes that one quote from the IPTV World Forum in London really stood out for him. That quote, from Accenture’s Arjang Zadeh, stated “quality, not content, is king.” Well, yes and no. It is not that simple, let me explain.
Why would such a quote stand out in [...]

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Ready or Not, AT&T Sells Uverse

1 March 2007

Tagged as: IPTV

Microsoft

Om Malik, from Gigaom (see links on right), has written a piece on AT&T Uverse deployment of the Microsoft IPTV platform.
It is hard to get a grip on AT&T’s IPTV efforts. Dubbed Uverse, some say AT&T’s television service it is still stuck in neutral, plagued by technical problems. AT&T, however feels otherwise, and has started [...]

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Apple’s next big move: Multitouch displays?

1 March 2007 Apple

Steve Jobs definitely loves having symmetry in his product lines, so even though this seems pretty unlikely it’s not totally impossible that he’d want to bring multitouch to stuff besides the iPhone… I hate to perpetuate rumors but this one is too good not to discuss. What do you think, is this the [...]

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Apple’s Mac sales surge over 100 percent in January!

1 March 2007 Apple

Sales of Apple Inc.’s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities. Mac sales were up 55% in December. Is this a trend?
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TiVo Tells You How To Defeat Their DRM To Keep You From Canceling

1 March 2007

Tagged as: DRM, tivo

DRM

Want to cancel your TiVo? When you call to tell them about it, they might just try to teach you how to defeat their DRM in order to keep you as a customer. That’s what happened to Tino, and he wrote all about it….
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Morgan Stanley: Apple’s iPhone underestimated

1 March 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Apple

Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty reiterated her buy rating on Apple Inc. shares, saying she believed the market is underestimating the likely success of the iPhone. She raised her 2007 iPhone sales forecast by 33% to 8 million units from 6 million, following a survey of 2,500 U.S. consumers. Huberty also believes Apple’s ability to [...]

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Apple to hold special event at NAB

1 March 2007 Apple

Apple will hold a special event at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show on Sunday, April 15. While no details were available on what, if anything, will be announced at the event, Apple has used such events in the past to launch significant product releases.
I bet it is Leopard OS X 10.5, what [...]

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