In our now running series, we’re 1 for 2 in picking out random stories on the web that should be made into movies – George Clooney optioned the first post – okay, I seriously doubt he actually saw our blog post – othewise, he would have locked up the rights to #2. Of course, most […]

Recently Radiohead experimented with the release of their latest album by allowing fans to download their latest album as digital mp3 files AND set their own price … Internet monitoring company Comscore extrapolated from their users (that willingly let them track their online usage) that 38% paid zero for the tracks … and also that […]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC […]

Recently, AP and others have caught Comcast red-handed intercepting internet traffic and changing the header/packet info. Mostly, they seem to slowing down or halting BitTorrent traffic but they also seem to be intercepting/slowing/halting Lotus Notes traffic across the internet. On the surface, they might seem to be claiming that all BitTorrent is “illegal” and slowing […]

For PC users, they don’t understand or even believe that on the Mac, you can randomly just upgrade your Mac and that for 99% of people, they can come back after 30-minutes when all is installed and ready, hit RESTART and while it might take a few ticks longer to reboot the first time, they […]

A few weeks after the iPhone hit the market, AT&T sent out an extensive 20-question survey (covered in this post). Now, AT&T has followed up with another email survey – some questions the same – obviously to gauge differences between mid-July and now mid-October but others are more detailed in asking what you would like […]

Go to Imagini. Click on the photo/illustration that answers the question they are asking … 5 minutes later, you have an answer and a chance to share your results.

Part I covered the “extra” features of the iPhone – most not revolutionary and not even evolutionary but here’s a strange concept to them apparently for cell phone manufacturers and mobile service providers … something really, really radical … A concept strange to them … EASY TO USE. What a strange concept. Anyone can throw […]

There is a lot of heated rhetoric regarding the iPhone but let’s separate the idle chatter from real facts: IF YOU TRY TO UNLOCK IT, YOU MIGHT BRICK IT Uh, yea. If you try and replace the carburetor on your BMW 6-series and your car starts belching black smoke and all the lights on the […]

Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude […]