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Amazon tries out video streaming store

Amazon.com got into the Internet video business in 2006 with its Unbox video download store which, after a rocky start, had seemed to be perking along although achieving minimal success. However, it seems that Amazon has been rethinking the whole market and has now decided to give sales of streaming video a try: Amazon.com will [...]

Kindle 2.0 coming in the fall?

John Biggs at CrunchGear has a rumor of two new and improved Amazon Kindle eBook readers on the way: The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface. The source told us that Amazon has “skipped three or four generations,” comparing the old Kindle to the [...]

Can you still you buy a new PC with Windows XP preinstalled?

Yes, you can still buy a new PC with Windows XP installed on it. Windows XP ceased to be available at retail on June 30, 2008 but there are a number of exceptions. The relevant exception for a consumer or a small business owner is that "OEMs can downgrade Vista Business or Vista Ultimate [...]

Warner to cut prices on Blu-ray DVDs

Suzanne Ault at Video Business reports that Warner Home Video is planning some aggressive price cutting on Blu-ray Discs during the fourth quarter: Starting early September and rolling through first-quarter 2009, Warner will offer a Blu-ray point-of-sale rebate program with which retailers will essentially be able to order participating catalog titles for around $11. Even with a [...]

Amazon’s Kindle popularity taking off?

I haven’t mentioned Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader because it had seemed like a nonstarter, but Josh Quittner at Time reports some surprising sales statistics: According to a source at Amazon, "on a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in physical form, Kindle sales now make up over 12% of sales for [...]

Rhapsody joins the DRM-free download ranks

RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service has joined the ranks of online stores selling DRM-free MP3 music: RealNetworks on Sunday announced several improvements to its Rhapsody music service, including a new online music store and integration with Verizon’s V Cast mobile phone music service. Taking a cue from competitors such as Amazon and Napster, Rhapsody’s new Web-based music store [...]

Google releases Media Server

Yesterday, Google released the Google Media Server: In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or accessed through a computer. To help remedy this, we are pleased to release the Google Media Server. Google Media Server is [...]

SanDisk cancels TakeTV and Fanfare

SanDisk’s attempt to crack the Internet video market with their TakeTV hardware and Fanfare download service has ended: A terse note on the Fanfare Web site indicates that the “Fanfare beta has come to a conclusion, and the Fanfare application will be disabled as of 5/15/08.” As for the TakeTV hardware, a representative for SanDisk has [...]

Walmart offers free Web classified ads

You probably know that Walmart has a large Web sales operation at Walmart.com (”Shop and Save at Walmart.com“), but did you know that Walmart is now offering free Web classified ads like Craigslist? Walmart.com is beta testing a classifieds service, powered by Oodle that allows the site’s shoppers to post free classifieds on all kinds of [...]

Amazon cuts Blu-ray movie prices in half

If you have a Blu-ray DVD player and want to pick up some films at a bargain price, check out Amazon’s summer 50% off sale on what appears to be 116 different movies.

So what are Panasonic Evolta batteries good for?

On May 24th Panasonic held a publicity stunt for their Evolta alkaline batteries involving a toy robot powered by two AA Evoltas climbing a 530 meter rope hung off a cliff at the Grand Canyon. Since it took 6 hours and 45 minutes, I don’t think robot rope climbing is going to become a spectator [...]

Samsung announces 256GB SSD

I see that I haven’t mentioned solid state drives in nearly two years, but it is one area where technical advances are coming hot and heavy as indicated by yesterday’s announcement by Samsung of a 256GB SSD which could be shipping in products by the end of 2008: Samsung late on Sunday promised what it says [...]

Make your XP system look like Vista

Adam Pash at Lifehacker makes some interesting suggestions on how to Get Vista’s Best Features in XP. The sad part is that there is so little there beyond eye candy of dubious utility or applications for very specialized niches. In the latter category, I liked: Take Quick and Easy Screenshots: PrtScrn has been around forever, but [...]

Now it’s spam on your cellphone

The NY Times’ Laura Holson reports on the latest battleground with spammers as they have figured out how to hit cellphone users with unsolicited and unwanted text messages, which depending on your service plan, you may well have to pay for. American consumers are expected to receive an estimated 1.5 billion unsolicited text messages in 2008, [...]

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