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[Computer Shopping] New features, grey area Microsoft's private deal with Universal Music to pay the record label a voluntary royalty of $1 for every Zune player it sells...
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[Digitalmusicnews.com] Digital Music News: The birth of Zune is happening alongside the slow death of PlaysForSure, and abandoned partners are considering their next moves. Portable player manufacturers like iRiver, Creative, and Archos will probably shift away from the ill-supported and unsuccessful network, and could strike out with systems of their own.
[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Assuming that Zunes sell around the clock, that's approximately 180 Zunes per hour sold, or roughly 3 Zunes per minute.Assuming a steady 3 Zune per minute sales rate, it will take over twenty days to sell as many Zunes as Apple currently sells iPods in a single day. And that's not even taking the current holiday-spurred iPod rush into account, which itself may be upwards of 15 million units, or about a half-million iPods per day.We did the math, so you don't have to....
[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Microsoft to Pay Per-Processor ...: I suppose the next step is to convince ISPs to ban the use of internet software that isn’t a web browser or email (including therefore web spiders and anything else, like VOIP or p2p, with carveouts for some popular games), thereby raising the tinkering barrier-to-entry further (you need to pay for business hosting/whatever, not just have a home computer and net connection to tinker online) and strangling some potential future net products in the cradle (can’t let that dangerous “freenet” thing become widespread, oh no!)
[Playlistmag.com] Playlist: The iPod Blog: The third disc offers that same content as iPod-compatible MPEG-4 video files that you can copy directly to iTunes and then sync to your 5G iPod. The One Step Beyond collection includes 24 episodes (over 9 hours of material) and the Hitchcock collection includes very early efforts by the legendary director (The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, and Sabotage are the most well-known of the bunch) for over 11 hours of content.
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Posted at December 15, 2006 01:59 AM
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