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Talk Points
What is Microsoft doing right Marketing-wise with Windows 7? TV Switchover Debate Warner Music Backlash
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Circuit City Blows it's last fuse Filed for Bankruptcy last year - 2nd largest electronics retailer - 5-10% game sales Could not get a re-structure on its debts or find a buyer Even the liquidation sales sucked (10%,20%, good luck finding 30%)YouTube optimized for TV and YouTube experimenting with direct downloads TV optimization specifically targetted at PS3 and Wii, easier interface, etc Lots of plugins available that download files, but they are a bit cumbersome This allows select videos to have a "download now" link on the youtube page Obama speech was one of the firsts to get the feature Google Terminates 6 Services, Jaiku one of them Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku Jaiku to become open source Closed some offices (Austin, Norway, Sweden) 100 recruitment positions gone Twitter may have a new business model Jason Calacanis "Suggested Friends"
WoW Patch 3.0.8 Released First since Wrath of the Lich King published World of Warcraft now supports 3-D imaging. Lots of crashing on release day, Revolves around Wintergrasp Can now create Death Knight on any server if you have lvl 70 on account
Intarweb Goldmine
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CES Stuff
3D, 3D, and more 3D Cherple Also announced at CES Computer-to-Mobile 2-way Free Texting Talk Point
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HUGE ITunes Change DRM Gone, but so is the old pricing structure $1.29 for all new stuff, $.99 for moderate, $.69 for older stuff
RIAA Fires MediaSentry Sloppy work - Investigators would download music files from peoples computers and use that as evidence that they were file sharing, without confirming that the file had been in fact shared with anybody else other than the MediaSentry investigator. Tactic since 2003 and has spawned many Civil Right lawsuits RIAA quietly dropped the company and cites their winding down of "evidence collecting" RIAA states that they will be "measuring the popularity of various online entertainment sites" instead
30 Gig Zune Meltdown on Jan. 1 National News, a certain portion of the Gen 1 Zunes stopped working on NYD Source code subsequently leaked and here's the detail explanation They didn't account for leap year properly when day counting. Microsoft's fix: Wait until Jan. 2
Mars Rovers 5 Years Old Spirit landed on Jan 3, 2004 and sister, Opportunity, was 21 days later Only expected to function 30 days Both have driven over 12 and a half miles Uploaded 36 Gigabytes of data, 250 thousand photos
Consumer Electronics Show Samsung 7mm TV 150 inch TVs of course NBC coverage, first time a major broadcaster has been there TBD if there is anything noteworthy out there to discuss, kinda quiet That's "Wheel Good" - In-Car Microwave Man in Thor Costume Scares Away Burglar There's a web comic out there from "PvPOnline" where one of the chars scares away a burglar by wearing a Thor costume Life Imitates Entertainment, rather than Vice Versa Man comes home, house being robbed, Wearing Thor costume from a halloween party, burglar sees him, gets scared, runs out of the house leaving his shoes.
Shouting at your HD can make it slower Tiny vibrations from the soundwaves of your voice can cause latency. Proven with a disk monitor Punchline: "Just like a woman, whisper sweet nothings to your HD and you might actually get farther..." (working on this )
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Top 5 Scary Tech of 2008 Hearing Voices at the Store Law Enforcement Takes Your Laptop Entering the Country Without Probable Cause Cyberwar Attack the nation's infrastructure Emergency Response Services Banks Electrical Grid Water Technological Singularity AI Technology deciding we're irrelevant Large Hadon Collider Create a black hole at Earth's surface? Material called strangelets. Back online June 2009 Apple: Steve Jobs Step Down? / Hearing About the Next Gadget MS: Windows 7 Uphill Battle (has to erase bad Vista blood) MS: Web Office Launch head-to-head with Google Docs MS: E3 announce XBox720 Google: Web Based GoogleOS Nintendo: Quiet Year / More Peripherals + Games Sony: PS4? Blu-ray make-or-break year Mobile devices will take over, Smartphones on crack Twitter will go away or need to find money
XBox Avatars get 90's Rave Clothes
