Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
HD War is Over
Analysis to come later but, Toshiba has announced they are giving up on the HD DVD format. The announcement came after massive blows to their growth potential were announced by retail outlets such as Blockbuster, Walmart, Target, and Best Buy who all have gone Blu-Ray only in recent months.
No Comments » - Posted in Industry News, Uncategorized by Jason D.
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Happy V-Day from Indy
Here is the new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which will be in theaters May 22nd. Give it a few seconds to load and enjoy :-)
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Jason T.
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems
News Corp. is in talks with Yahoo! but analysts aren’t taking the bait. The idea is that a deal with News Corp. might send Microsoft running but in the end it is more likely that they’ll end up raising their bid price. Ruport Murdoch has said that they are not interested in bidding on Yahoo! but that [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Google, Microsoft by Jason D.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
WGA STRIKE ENDS!
After 100 days the Writers Guild strike is over! 92.5% of the ballots cast were in favor of ending the strike and 283 votes of the 3,775 were in favor of continuing to picket and hold out for more.
The informal negotiations that finally broke the impasse is largely creditedto News Corp.’s Peter Chernin and Walt [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Industry News, Movies, TV by Jason D.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Writers may return but sadly Reality TV won’t leave
Here’s an article from the AP about Reality TV growing up. Many reality shows were dusted off during the midst of the writers strike. Despite their potential return, the reality shows are still going to stick around.
Survivor started it’s sweet 16 last week. Big Brother returns this week. The Mole and Paradise Hotel are being [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Industry News, TV by Jason T.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Netflix says “good-bye” to HD-DVD
One more nail was hammered into the HD DVD coffin when Netflix announced they would be “phasing out HD DVD rentals from its service due to underwhelming demand.” The company currently has more than 400 titles on Blu-ray and over 90,000 on standard DVD. Netflix, which has suffered setbacks in recent months, has more than [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Jason D.
Monday, February 11th, 2008
The Mac ad for when something goes wrong
Jason Fry from the WSJ recently purchased a 24″ iMac. Unfortunately it had to go in for repairs about 3 weeks after he purchased it. I think he referenced a bad power supply (something I’m funnily enough dealing with on my aging PeeCee). Either way, he made a rather humorous video in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple by Jason T.
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Yahoo rejects bid; Microsoft unlikely to give in
As expected, the Yahoo board rejected Microsoft’s bid to purchase the company in a letter this morning. The board seems to be indicating an interest in the bid if the value were upped to $35-36 per share, or potentially as high as $40 per share (an amount Microsoft supposedly offered a year ago which [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Industry News, Microsoft by Jason T.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
In Today’s News
Time Warner is set to split up the floundering AOL unit. Newly minted CEO Jeff Bewkes laid out his plan for the future by making plans to ’seperate its struggling AOL unit’s Internet access business from its Web portal and online advertising components‘. He also hinted that the company may reduce its stake in Time Warner [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Apple unveils stopgap iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple quietly announced Tuesday that they’re releasing new iPhones and iPod Touch players with larger hard drive capacities.
The updated iPhone now has a maximum flash drive size of 16GB and retails for $499. The 8GB model remains at $399.
The new iPod Touch can now be bought with a 32GB flash drive. Pricing [...]