Twitter Updates for 2009-02-11
- its going to be one of those days me thinks. Everybody thinks stuff is going wrong when in actual fact its working perfectly…Coffee. #
- Shocking Vodafone charge £1 per MB over data tariff #
- Coffee 2 – The afternoon looks as if its going to be as bad, as the morning. #
- I Love AIM spam, its so funny. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-10
- Another phone bites the dust, Grandstream Phone => Dead Backlight Dead. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-09
- A whole afternoon being taught something I already know. Oh Goody #
Psystar Continues to be a thorn in Apples Side
In an interesting twist, Computer World is reporting that a federal judge ruled last week that the Mac clone maker Psystar can continue its countersuit against computer maker and Mac OS developer Apple Corporation. Neowin
So what is Apple’s next move, well thats quite simple. If you can’t beat them fairly beat them unfairly. I can see Apple taking some of that Cash on Hand, and buying Psystar outright and effectively putting them out of business.
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-07
- @spotify Woke up this morning all my playlist are empty, stop taking my music away, will I ever get it back? #
- Why does the Flash Player UnInstaller take years to finish its not as if flash player installs to a million different places on each machine #
- Putting up a tent is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You rent her unzip the door put up your pole an slip in to the old bag #
- @stephenfry are you sure your not in a prison? #
- Yet another fire with no Smoke or for that matter fire. Fire Detectors can be too sensitive you know. #
Introducing the V-Piano
NAMM was a couple of weeks ago now, and there have been some major announcements in the music industry. Roland have managed to push as many new products onto us as I can ever remember at least over the last 5 Years. The most interesting of which is the newest addtion to the V series of instruments the V-Piano.
What is so special about this is the keyboard itself models the sound of a keyboard, meaning the computer generates a fake piano in every sense, the casing the hammers, dampers and strings. In minute detail, all this means you can replicate the sound of a piano so realisitically you would find it difficult to tell the difference. It also means you can customise the way the piano plays, for instance changing the coating of the strings, and the hammers for a particular octave(s) of the keyboard. Making a truly unique sound.
I cannot wait until I get a go on one of these Roland is set to have a production Demo at MusikMesse Frankfurt at Easter.
Roland V-Piano from Northern Music on Vimeo.
Roland recently launched or rather pre-launched the V-Piano an NAMM09
Apple Bans Facebook – Not So Sure.
Well at least some stores are banning the popular social networking sites from the instore computers. While alot can be said including that its an evil move by a big corporation. Although it is since been found out that Apple is not doing this by a policy and it appears only a handful of stores are operating the policy.
I personally think that Apple will enact such a policy across all stores soon, they want to stay profitable after all and time is money. The time spent dealing with questions and people who a clearly not there to buy only to check their gmail account has to stop. Apple has a massive retail presence based on quality of staff, if they are to keep the quality of staff high and thus maintain this appearance through the oncoming storm, they have to draw the line at some point.
Via TinyComb TechCrunch
What is Yahoo!s’ Business?
The dust is still settling from Jerry Yang’s announcement that he is to step down as Yahoos’ CEO. I wonder if Yahoo! has any idea what it wants to be. Search, Advertising or Neither.
There is still talk of Microsoft buying Yahoo! Search, which is fair enough take the least toxic bit of Yahoo! But what are you then left with. Yahoo! Mail, Delicious & Flickr they are the only remaining big properties that Yahoo have on the books.
Delicious & Flickr have yet to be monetized and the user base on both platforms would kill the person responsible for upsetting the status quo. That leaves Yahoo! Mail, which has some ads but the willingness of Yahoo! to go with the Google advertising deal means they are likely making no money on that either.
So how is Yahoo making money?
Sure its got deals with BT in the UK providing the homepage and mail service to all BT Broadband customers, and it has some News properties which are well trafficed. User growth is going to be negligible anybody who would want to sign up for a Yahoo! Account probably have, its a problem many big companies face and sure there have been attempts to get the workforce re-invigorated but so far nothing new and astounding has made it through the door, and what has been something a bit different had to be bought in.
I have said many times before that Yahoo! doesn’t have a clear sense of what it wants to be; Search, Advertising, Content or Video, it just doesn’t sit nicely anywhere and it can’t be the agregator for all because Google has sewn that one up however, thats not to say Yahoo! couldn’t compete – they could if they become a strong leader in the tech sector again.
If I where Yahoo! I would invest heavily in cloud computing services, rather than following try and jump ahead. Just like Apple did in 1997.
The Problem with Making Apps for a closed market.
Take a look at any Facebook Profile or iPhone Home Screen and you can see how lucrative the closed market is. But with one click your benovolent provider can remove the need for your application by implementing the same application as a native feature. That is to say Apple denying applications to the app store because they are developing the same feature or adding a feature which negates a £4.99 app.
Facebook has done the dirty on the Birthday Reminders Applications, by implementing birthday notifcation into Facebook by default.
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