Posted By Faye
Date: February 29th, 2008
This just in, the game, Rock Band, which opened its online music store recently has just sold around 6 million songs. A gold mine indeed since music sales have plummeted over the past months.Rock Band is a game where you place your shoes on a member of a band, let’s say a lead guitarist, or a drummer, and emulate it as if you are the one playing the song. And it has made artists or bands become known to new listeners because not only do gamers listen to the song, they interact with it by knowing how the bass goes, or drum beats.Bands like Paramore has been widely know due to the open of the online music store and with a dollar or two to download it, it is a very good deal.It’s like Rock Band and iTunes rolled into on, and consumers can listen to a preview before they settle in buying the music.I say it’s a nice business model.
Posted By Faye
Date: February 28th, 2008
Since it was formally announced that Google is now the largest ad company in the world, Microsoft seems to be really insecure after falling behind and it has started the soap opera of the Internet giants.Ever since the year started, there have been talks between Microsoft and Yahoo (more of an effort from Microsoft) to have an agreement to acquire the search engine in exchange for an estimate of 45 billion US Dollars.Yahoo seems to be calm in this arrangement, but has tricks up its sleeve. Yahoo in turn, to fend off Microsoft’s offer, is currently listening to the offer of AOL, Microsoft’s arch-nemesis, but if you get to look at AOL’s relationship with other giants, Google seems to own 5% of the Time Warner-owned company.Watch out for the next episode as to what will happen next to our favorite Internet characters.http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/11/yahoo.turns.to.aol/
Posted By Faye
Date: February 26th, 2008
The last entry for this month’s web innovations blog is the Apple TV being an all around device for us to be really entertained within the comforts of our own home. We can hear music using the Apple TV and watch home made videos, and also scan through pictures using the chic device. Ain’t that impressive? It sure does.
But what’s lacking in this device is that for a device to be an overall home entertainment device should have the function of other gadgets like being able to play with DVDs that you bought, although it is possible with the remote disc feature, but it consumes a lot of energy when you do that. And there are other devices in the market that gives the consumers other features like the Xbox and the Playstation 3.
Although it really sucks that there are some flaws or there are lacking points in the Apple TV, I am really hoping and hoping hard that the people at Cupertino will do something and make this product THE Bomb for the ultimate entertainment experience.
Posted By Faye
Date: February 23rd, 2008
New Web applications are built on technologies enable developers to build better, richer user experiences such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight. A stronger separation of presentation from data is being shift in how applications are organized by these new technologies. The technologies simplify the job of developers such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services. To enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service is the goal of ADO.NET that can be consumed by WEB clients within corporate network and across the Internet. It used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service is the data service that is reachable over HTTP, and URIs.
Posted By Faye
Date: February 17th, 2008
The next for this series is the connectivity
Although the Apple TV is projected as a wireless device and that it can function with the built-in airport antennae, it can also have connectivity with the Ethernet cable. So this is a good news for people without wireless routers or wifi routers at home.
What’s lacking in the Apple TV or what’s left undeveloped is that if you have your own videos stored in your PC or Mac, and retrieve it using your IEEE 802.11n Apple TV, it really takes time to get it, as opposed to using the Ethernet cable where it is just a flash when it comes to retrieving DVD-rips and such.
Posted By Faye
Date: February 10th, 2008
During the MacWorld Conference and Expo last January of 2008, Steve Jobs announced the launch of iTunes rentals and promised to be able to offer at the very least, 1,000 titles for consumers to rent by the end of February. And since February is over and coming in to mid-March, the number of titles tallies between 400 to 600 movies, and this is a big embarrassment to the Cupertino-based company.Apple CEO, Steve Jobs blames “those pesky studios and their rights agreements are once again the problem. Many of the movies Apple wants to offer on iTunes were released before Internet distribution was a possibility, meaning that download royalty agreements have to [be] signed between studios, actors, and copyright owners. As we’ve seen from the WGA strike, arguing about royalties tends to take time, but Apple is saying that the 1,000 titles will be available ‘soon.’”According to other news sources, the quality of audio and video doesn’t fit to what Jobs expects to offer to consumers of the iTunes store. Some HD movies don’t use Dolby Digital 5.1 and is quite disappointing.Apple Fans must not worry and would not wait in vain for the success to happen. It only takes time before the industry and the market adjusts to the business model of the iTunes store. Just like when the store started in 2003 where it measly offered 200,000 cuts but now has over 6 million songshttp://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080305/apple_tv_movies.html?.v=2http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/06/jobs-responds-to-itunes-movie-rentals-criticismhttp://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/04/movie-studios-could-be-behind-missing-itunes-rentals
Posted By Faye
An announced was made for the addition of the Color imageRUNNER c3480 Series and the Color imageRUNNER C3080 Series by the Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leader in document imaging and office solutions. The Color imageRUNNER C3480/C3080 Series models bring time-savings, joining the Color imageRUNNER C2550 announced in Febraury 2008, performance and high-quality output ot smaller offices and workgroup environments.Robust finishing options, advanced security features, and low energy consumption, as well as compatibility with a wide selection of accessories. Offering web connectivity, accelerated paper management, that the Color imageRUNNER c3480 and c3080 systems are available in either a “base” or “I” version, and can be customized to meet diverse document management needs.