Inexpensive HD Video in 2010
My last piece for Zeropaid looked at the recently announced iPad specifically as a video device. Does Apple’s latest gadget have the potential to be a game changer in the video arena, as it may have in the mobile and publishing fields? I have some serious doubts based on what we [...]
iPad as Video Device? Not So Much
In the unlikely case you were somehow unaware of the big news from yesterday, Apple announced the iPad, a new device (and category) somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop that will either revolutionize the entire computing space, or will flop miserably (depending on which analyst you read). So much has been tweeted, facebooked, blogged, [...]
Zeropaid at CES 2010!
While the year, and the decade, may just be starting out, things are already heating up quickly in the electronics and technology worlds. With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) trade conference beginning tomorrow in Las Vegas, a flood of new devices, gadgets and services will be announced, released or just rumored. The big trends we [...]
Are You Ready for a Real Google Phone?
In yet another of the seemingly endless stream of new products coming from Google this year, this week has seen the confirmation of rumors that the search engine giant is about to get more directly involved in the mobile phone space. Google has already made a major step into thesmart-phone world through its creation of [...]
Report – Some Video iPods Incompatible With iTunes Video Rentals
A report on Wired says that some iPods are not compatible with the iTunes video rental store. Not good news for fifth generation iPod owners planning on using the service.
“We just have to make [piracy] as difficult and as tedious as possible,” Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America said during an interview on [...]
Company targets Apple, Microsoft and others for not using enough DRM
What do Vista, Flash, RealPlayer, and iTunes have in common? According to Media Rights Technologies (MRT), all of them are infringing products under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and MRT has just sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple.
“Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the [...]
Survey: Despite interest, most won’t buy iPhone
Market research firm Markitecture reported Tuesday the results of a recent survey to judge interest in the iPhone among existing cell phone users. While the iPhone ranked surprisingly high in consumer awareness, most respondents said there was little, if any chance, that they’d actually buy one.
Based on a poll of 1,300 people who owned a [...]
Apple tells content partners it can soon offer DRM-free music
According to the MacRumors site, iTunes’ content partners will soon have the option of offering DRM-free music and music videos.
Perhaps in another bid to assuage European anti-trust concerns, Apple sent out a brief memo to its content partners that starting next month they will be able to offer DRM-free music and music videos.
The memo [...]
Steve Jobs: ‘No subscription-based iTunes’
Says customers not into renting music — and I agree.
Record labels have been supposedly asking Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its iTunes digital music download store in an attempt to increase profits but, Steve Jobs is adamant that “customers don’t seem to be interested in it”.
Apple is gearing up for [...]
Apple delays new operating system
Apple Inc said on Thursday it was delaying the release of its new computer operating system, sending its shares down 3 percent.
The company said its eagerly anticipated iPhone was on schedule to ship in late June as planned after passing several of its required certification tests.
But it said delivering the phone on time contributed to [...]
