Microsoft joins Apple in stance against Blu-ray
Apple has a surprising ally in its campaign of apathy against Sony's Blu-ray disc format. Microsoft, of all companies, has also stepped out with a passive-aggressive stance against the standard, as UK head of Xbox gaming head Steven McGill says that "B...
Steve Jobs Teaches Journalism 101: Please Leave Us Alone
At least he was polite, but it’s obviously not customers for whom Steve Jobs has little regard — it’s journalists. When Long Island University senior Chelsea Kate Isaacs, 22, emailed Jobs Thursday asking why Apple’s PR department wasn’t responding to her questions about about the...Convert Any Document Into an eBook Viewable in iBooks [How To]
Now that Apple has made iBooks available on all iOS devices users can read their purchased eBooks on a number of different devices. But what if you have a couple large RTF, DOC, TXT, or LIT files of your own that you want to view...Must See Video: Magical Light Painting Using iPads
<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/14958082?portrait=0&color=ffffff” width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/14958082″>Making Future Magic: iPad light painting</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/dentsulondon”>Dentsu London</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> You’ve got to check out this fantastic video of light painting using stop-motion, long-exposure photography, and iPads. More on the process here: Making Future Magic: light painting...Google hopes to launch music service with downloads, streaming
Google's rumored music service could offer both digital track and album downloads as well as a "digital locker" streaming service, according to a new report from Billboard. Anonymous music industry sources told the trade magazine...
Boxee Box goes Intel, gets priced for preorder
Boxee and D-Link have announced that the upcoming Boxee Box set-top box is now available for preorder from Amazon and set to ship in November. The long-awaited device for accessing a variety of online video...
YouTube testing live streams for content partners
YouTube has already become a place where you can find your favorite video blogger and peer creepily into his or her daily escapades. That's about to become even more voyeuristic, though. YouTube has announced that it has finished...
VLC coming to the iPad
VLC, the play-anything video player for the Mac, may soon be available as an iPad app. App maker Applidium has spent months porting the open source player into an iPad app and has submitted it to the App Store. Now they're just waiting for Apple to ap...
Amie Street gobbled by Amazon, morphs into new Songza
Amazon has bought AmieStreet.com, the indie music site that became known for starting its song prices at zero and increasing them with each download. Amie Street, Inc. (which remains independent) said that it plans to shift its ...
iTunes in the Cloud and Why This Scares Me