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Archive for November, 2009
Apple FORCES Ad Viewing
Nov 16th
Ads have always been, well, inviting to parties interested in their product but at the same time people that weren’t interested could just ignore them. It appears as though this isn’t good enough for Apple. No more playing the probability game for the fruity company. Now they are planning on FORCING users to view the ads, interested or not. I suppose in these harsh economic times revenue increases are king.
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Music Copyrights:::DNA Dating:::Feminizing Boys
Nov 16th
Fake Movie Trailers
Nov 13th
There’s a guy on YouTube that is making trailers for movies that don’t really exist. He’s putting pieces of other clips together but he seems to be pretty good at video editing because he’s able to dress them up in the trailer. Here’s the link to his channel and I included an example below…
WormyT’s Youtube Channel
Thundercats
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk[/youtube]
Free Global TV-On-Demand Service
Nov 12th
A company called Voddler based out of Sweden is now providing a free (by way of commercials and/or adds) global TV-On-Demand service. It is currently invitation only (since it’s in beta) but is still gaining popularity. Two of the largest studios, Disney and Paramount, have already signed deals to provide content to Voddler. This appears to be another attempt to squelch the ever-growing population of file-sharing application users distributing pirated material. “Our customers can be sure that Voddler is totally legal, secure, and that there are no risks of computer viruses infecting their machines from downloaded files.”
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Interesting Note: Voddler’s Player like MANY other streaming players (such as the underrated Boxee) is based on the source code of the wildly popular Xbox Media Center (XBMC of which I am a very satisfied former user) which is a beautiful feature-packed cross-platform, free, open source media player used on the original Xbox.
AMD vs Intel Lawsuit Settled
Nov 12th
Intel has agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) $1.25 billion ending a long-winded antitrust and patent dispute filed in 2005. The antitrust suit accused Intel of bullying dozens of computer manufacturers, including Dell, into using Intel chips instead of AMD. With this settlement, now each company can start focusing more attention on innovation.
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Fun Fact: Intel currently controls about 80% of the market for microprocessors.