Posts Tagged with ‘Apple’

The Web is abuzz with talk over who in the Apple-NBC debacle is the worst off for the planned severance to come next week, when The Peacock’s fall programming has its public debut. Profy’s very own Cyndy Aleo-Carreira covered the news soon after it broke, and now we receive word that, following its exit from the iTunes shop, NBC has tapped Amazon for the distribution of its content for the season ahead. So we figured we’d pick the story apart [...]

Sony’s once sterling reputation has in recent years caked on quite a bit of mud. It’s dealt with a backlash from consumers over underhanded rootkit installations made to consumers’ PCs. It’s seen its Walkman heritage fade every so painfully to become what many would agree is now, when juxtaposed against the all-powerful iPod-iTunes duopoly, just another second-class. And just last week the company announced that it is shelving the ATRAC file format it stubbornly held onto since as far [...]

The music industry as we know it is dying. The problem is that the industry wants to keep the machines running as long as they can, while new technology is standing by waiting for the organ donations.
All that's necessary to come to this conclusion is to look at how the record companies have handled new technology. They had a virtual goldmine sitting in their laps with Napster, but instead, fear drove them to attempt to dismantle it, assuming P2P file [...]

Today we received news that the folks behind Meebo, the very popular Web-based IM client, released an updated website for iPhone users to enjoy. While the company did in fact announce an iPhone-friendly version of its instant messaging client shortly after the official debut of Apple’s handheld, the update is being regarded by numerous bloggers as the development that should’ve been made available from the start.
Apple has no doubt caused a sort of ruckus among a niche of customers frustrated [...]

Oh, the horror! Say it ain’t so!
It’s so. No longer the dominant social network of the US and UK, MySpace relinquished its crown to Bebo in July 2007 (at least in the Kingdom), which claimed an advantage of roughly 600,000 unique visitors over R. Murdoch’s own Web-based social phenom. ComScore, the source of the latest figures, has stated that Bebo ended the first month-long stretch of Q3 with 10.7 million uniques, landing atop MySpace’s 10.1 million for the first time. [...]

Apparently there has been a lot of concern about the video quality and bandwidth requirements of Joost, the free P2P online television application. JoostTeam has done some testing and compared the quality of Joost to both DivX Stage6 and iTunes videos.
According to their findings, the bit rate of Joost videos equals out to only half that of the same videos available from DivX or iTunes. To make matters even worse, it was reported that the resolution of Joost does [...]

When it comes to the social side of Web 2.0 – you know, the MySpaces, the Facebooks – I’m lost. I do very well understand why such places exist, I simply cannot for the life of me grasp why they’ve become so popular, and, furthermore, managed to remain so. Baffling, really. When I consider all the time misspent maintaining relations with “friends” lists, most of whose contacts hold no real allegiance to one another anyhow, I wonder how such holes [...]

Online storage has been a business proven useful for some time already. Having one’s essentials - and even some luxuries - available from any place and any terminal one can connect to the Web with is appealing to many. Why wouldn’t it be? For the half of the computing world that hasn’t been persuaded over to the portable sector of the tech industry (in other words, the people who continue to reside on desktop systems and only desktop systems), it’s [...]

Google Video was supposed to be Google's answer to the popular Apple iTunes video marketplace where users can download movies and television shows. Apple has had far more success though, while Google's lackluster offerings have kept a quiet status.
Yesterday, Google announced that it would be shutting down its Google Video marketplace and that any downloaded videos will no longer be accessible after August 15. This will include both rented and purchased videos.
Yes, that means that if you paid to [...]