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“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?” – George Orwell – 1984
We began this week with a tale of woe. About the hard drive I purchased only the week before. Should have done my homework first, I’m finding lots of complaints about it online now. Damn Seagate! On a more positive note Gareth was positively gushing about his new Google Voice service. Sounds like a well thought out utility, and its free, you can’t beat free. But, no he can’t get you an invite, if he could I’d have the first….
Then unto the breach…
Stephen Fry slams copyright holders – The English writer, actor and all round good egg, launched a blistering attack on copyright holders, at the London iTunes festival. Especially the ones that take consumers to court, you know how you are. You’ll never win now record companies. Or if you do Stephen will hit you with a devastating put down.
Toshiba launching Blu-ray player – After losing the war, Toshiba plan to recoup some of the billions it invested in HD-DVD. By launching their own Blu-ray player. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
Palm confirms iTunes update kills Pre syncing – Apple threatened to do it, and with iTunes update 8.2.1, they have. Pre users will have to find some other way to get there media on to their phones. The feature rich smartphone, is now one advertised feature down.
MS exec, ‘We got Apple scared’ – Apparently ‘someone in Apple legal’ called the MS executive in charge of the ‘Laptop hunter’ ads. And requested one be altered or removed for inaccuracies. The exec, COO Kevin Turner, now wants to keep ‘running and running them’. You do that Kev, You keep spending millions advertising products you don’t even sell. To customers who are computer illiterate, cheapskates and, according to the ads, uncool.
Amazon remotely delete Orwell novels. Kindle ‘ungood’ – This is so ironic its either a publicity stunt, or a once in a lifetime, to good to be true and ‘finally story’ for a tech podcast like ours. But to do this to George Orwell’s 1984, that’s just brilliant. I mean, remotely deleting any purchase from someone’s Kindle is bad enough. Amazon it seems just refund the purchase price, and put it down to a ‘malreport’. I wonder if the Kindle’s EULA is in doublespeak.
And that was it for this week, There would have been six stories But both Gareth and I picked the Pre story. Still we managed waffle on for quite a while.
