Redesigned Microsoft.com Doesn't Support Firefox
Jul 29Take a trip to the preview site for Microsoft’s new homepage and you’ll notice a nice shiny new layout with a fresher look and feel to it, provided you’re using Internet Explorer. In Firefox, Opera or a number of other third-party browsers the site simply redirects to the current homepage, even if you dress the browser up to appear to be Internet Explorer 6.0. Is this simply a...
Microsoft Explains its Zune Strategy
Jul 29Speaking here just now on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division, explained the strategy behind the company’s planned Zune media devices and services — the company’s forthcoming iPod and iTunes challengers. Bach cautioned the audience of financial analysts that the project will require an investment of hundreds of...
Google Testing Adsense for Radio
Jul 29Google-powered ads, which have become a mainstay on Web sites, are now being played on at least one radio station in Detroit. And like so many other Motor City radio products, it won’t be long before they go global. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts last week that the search giant plans to make its radio-ad business generally available within three...
iPods built to last 'for years,' not 'four years'
Jul 29A spokeswoman for Apple Computer on Friday said she was recently misquoted in a comment on the life-span of the company’s iPod digital music players. Earlier this week, Chicago Tribune quoted Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris as saying iPods have a relatively low failure rate and that they are designed to last “four years.” However, Kerris in a statement to the iLounge on Friday...
How To Make the RIAA Drop the Case
Jul 28It looks as though the RIAA has quietly dropped several lawsuit cases rather quickly because the defense started to ‘cry IP’: For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files. That, of course, is false. The IP address simply can help you know who paid...