Retail giant Walmart revealed on Tuesday that it will close its MP3 store later this month, even as Apple’s iTunes continues to dominate the digital music industry. The company declined to provide further details regarding the move, saying only that it was a “business decision,” as noted by the Associated Press. Walmart will close the […]
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There may be something to this whole HTML5 thing… Per AppleInsider, Microsoft has provided a look at how it plans to bring Windows to more mobile devices in the future, leveraging ARM processors and using HTML5 as the basis of a new app platform. As demonstrated at the D9 conference, Windows 8 will deliver a […]
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The Two Faced Monster Inside Zune
To counter Apple’s FairPlay DRM used in the iTunes Store, Microsoft worked with media producers to design a comprehensive DRM technology framework it named after the Roman god Janus. Here why it failed.
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Microsoft Zune on Sale Tuesday, NYT: Yawn
NYT: Microsoft is probably the greenest company in all of high tech. Not green in the environmental sense — green with envy.
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The Digg Fraud Campaign Behind Zune
The problem with the anonymous Internet is that services like Digg fail to exercise any of the accountability of traditional news sources, and are happy to be used to spread false information if it results in ad clicks. That’s something that Apple has the power to change, but who knows when?