The MacMini HDTV revolution  —  Yesterday I was over talking with the team behind Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine.  —  We all agreed that Apple TV sucks.  More on that in a minute.  —  But we all notice a trend: hooking MacMinis up to your HTDV.  I think it’s a revolution.

Source:   Scobleizer — […]

Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices  —  Honestly, if we hadn’t been tipped to this, we probably would’ve been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart’s video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Matt Buchanan
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3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM  —  Warner Music has bent beneath the force of the anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe.  The label will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon’s new MP3 store.  —  The announcement means that EMI, Universal …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Nate Anderson
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-3down-1…

New product release today  —  Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…  It’s with much anticipation that I say this.  —  I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  —  The idea is simple.

Source:   Scripting News
Author:   Dave […]

Apple’s new price target: $300  —  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a truly fun company and stock to watch and write about during the course of 2007.  Not a bad name to own either.  I have probably written a dozen posts for BloggingStocks about Apple, and I have raised my price target five or […]

What Is The ROI Of Requiring User Registration To Access Online Content?  —  I somehow got logged out of my NYTimes.com registration and just hit the registration wall when I tried to read an article — I almost forgot it was there.  Which made me wonder, now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone …

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Music Download Warning List  — Claims to have the “Largest Music & Movie Selection,” “Over 12 million MP3 files,” and to allow users to “Find Any Song for Movie Fast!”  — Charges $34.44 for a lifetime membership  — Claims to be “legal” on the home page.

Source:   Center for Democracy & Technology
Link:   http://www.cdt.org/copyright/warninglist/details.php#2

Dell XPS One Is Better Machine than iMac, Loses Battle for the Software, Mossberg Says  —  Today, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac.  And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs screaming and Hell […]

Yahoo to patent “smart drag-and-drop,” Ars submits prior art  —  A patent application filed by Yahoo is being scrutinized by the peer-to-patent web site (http://www.peertopatent.org/ ), a web-based public patent review system that is co-sponsored by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Ryan Paul
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-yahoo…

NEW at Wal-Mart: SEM Services  —  This should make for a good laugh.  —  The following is an email marketing campaign that was forwarded on to me from my good friend Gene Carbonell who just so happens to run an online store over at My Health Management.com.

Source:   Karl Ribas.com Blog
Author:   Karl Ribas
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