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Apple: Cross Platform DRM

October 16, 2003

As pre­dicted, Apple intro­duced a ver­sion of iTunes for win­dows today. A lot will be writ­ten about how this solid­i­fies Apple’s lead in the dig­i­tal music player mar­ket but what many may be over­look­ing is how Apple is push­ing its own ver­sion of Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment into a wider mar­ket. I sus­pect this is a strat­egy sim­i­lar to the one […]

Sony to Introduce Media-centric Gaming Box

May 28, 2003

EE Times and IGN report on the intro­duc­tion of a new gam­ing con­sole by Sony. Not, it’s not the much vaunted PS3, which is still sup­pos­edly on track for 2005 but some­thing much more inter­est­ing (at least to me): a PS2 gam­ing box that also includes a pro­gres­sive DVD player and recorder, a 120Gb Hard Drive, TV tuner, an […]

The Convergence Game

November 18, 2001

This week, Microsoft launched the Xbox, a new gam­ing sys­tem that takes the Red­mond giant into another mar­ket. Today, Nin­tendo is unveil­ing the Game­Cube, their new entry in a bat­tle they have fought with Sony for many years. With these new gam­ing sta­tions enter­ing the mar­ket, a new war is start­ing and in the end, it is a war […]

Suggestions for RSS .92 spec

October 12, 2000

I’d like to sug­gest a few optional addi­tions to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for dis­cus­sion: At the item level : This would allow us to spec­ify a par­tic­u­lar date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have sev­eral days’ worth of con­tent in their RDF […]

From Scandinavia With Love

September 17, 2000

I was recently speak­ing at a con­fer­ence called Escan­di­navia 2000, which cov­ered the state of the Inter­net in Scan­di­navia. Dur­ing that con­fer­ence, I had a chance to speak to a num­ber of peo­ple about the state of wire­less in the Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries. Here’s what I’ve learned and how it can help those of you who are work­ing in the […]

Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

August 21, 2000

Over the past few months, the con­tro­versy over nap­ster has con­tin­ued to grow increas­ing fear among the music indus­try that it is becom­ing an endan­gered species. How­ever, this issue is not about music but about movies. Yes, L.A. is start­ing to feel that it has now has to open war on a sec­ond front as its […]

Digital Rewind: Replay TV and Tivo

May 14, 1999

Dig­i­tal Video Recorders may rep­re­sent the future of tele­vi­sion consumption.