Music Labels Introduce CMX Format For Albums, Here’s To Watching Them Mess It Up
It’s fair to say that the record industry has beautifully screwed itself over with advancing technology. As much as they may own the facility that creates the music, its digital distribution has been taken squarely out of their hands. Like their past efforts to catch up, the large music companies are once again banding together [...]
Sony Party Shot Takes Candid Photos All On Its Own
A robot photographer may not be high on everyone’s list of priorities, but that doesn’t make it all that unnecessary. While I’ve never even thought about one before, seeing Sony’s just-announced Party-Shot makes me think it’s something everyone can appreciate. Intended to play shutterbug during parties and get-togethers, the Party Shot is designed to take [...]
Microsoft Tries To Create Buzz For Windows Marketplace With The Race To Market Challenge
Microsoft has formally opened Windows Marketplace for Mobile to developers today. While the actual storefront won’t debut till the company releases Windows Mobile 6.5, the company is sweetening the pot a little to offer potential developers a little enticement, with a contest called the Race To Market Challenge. Under the rules, all apps that get [...]
Pricing Challenges: Mobile App Business Growing Pains
People have been talking up the iPhone 3GS’ souped-up hardware capabilities, particularly, its potential to upstage gaming handhelds such as the PSP and DSi. Despite that, it’s highly unlikely that the platform will do so at its current stage. The reason has nothing to do at all with either the hardware or the software. Instead, [...]
Barnes & Noble Taking An Aggressive Stance Against Amazon On The E-Book Front
With Amazon poised on becoming the dominant force in ebook content, the rest of the booksellers are starting to make their move. Last month, Borders UK rolled out its ebook storefront, which provides content for the Elonex reader exclusively for the UK market. This time, it’s Barnes & Noble getting in on the action, with [...]
Palm Opens Up Mojo webOS SDK To The Public
Putting an end to the seeming endless waiting from restless developers, Palm has finally opened up Mojo, the official webOS SDK, to the general public. Arguably one of the easiest platforms to develop apps for (according to those who have tried it), it’s expected to spark a flurry of new entrants to the manufacturer’s still-fledgling [...]
Kindle And The Book Industry: Not Exactly In Peachy Terms
With the Kindle being the most recognizable success in the still-fledgling ebook-reader market, it isn’t surprising that it’s ending up the butt of rumbling. As Amazon looks poised to take over the market the same way Apple has grabbed a hold of music downloads via iTunes, it leaves publishers worried. “The industry as a whole [...]
Google Announces ChromeOS, Their Upcoming PC Platform
Talks of a PC-based Google OS has been going on for literally years now. It looks like 2010 is the year we finally see it in actual form, with today’s formal announcement of ChromeOS, an open-source, lightweight PC platform for machines running on X86 and ARM processors. According to Google, the operating system will be [...]
Augmented Reality Apps Come To Mobile Phones
Well, to Android at least. The past week has seen two augmented reality apps debut for Android smartphones (the G1 and the Magic aka Ion aka MyTouch 3G), taking advantage of the devices’ built-in GPS, camera and compass. Yep, augmented reality browsers are here now and will probably be the next big thing in smartphone [...]
Amazon’s Ebooks For Non-Kindle Devices
Amazon’s Ebooks For Non-Kindle Devices As good as Amazon’s Kindle ebook readers are (all three variants of them), it’s easy to discern that the real value they bring lies in the accompanying electronic book service. After all, the lack of a strong bookseller behind it is among the biggest reasons why non-Kindle readers continue to [...]
