Archive for March, 2009

@ McGraw-Hill: Ballmer: Apple Is Too Expensive For This Economy (And That’s Why Microsoft Will Win) (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

Thursday 19 March 2009 @ 11:12 am

The deteriorating economy and cutback in consumer spending will hurt Apple and Microsoft —at least that's the way MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer sees it. In a BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve Adler">Q&A with BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve Adler at the McGraw-Hill Media Summit, Ballmer took aim at the iPod, iPhone and and Apple's computers in general.

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Microsoft, Media Center Integrator Alliance Announce 2009 Ultimate Install Contest (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Thursday 12 March 2009 @ 9:00 am

sponsoring this year's contest with Media Center Integrator Alliance, Microsoft again seeks best residential project design based on Windows Media Center in custom installation industry.

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Apple Launches Talking iPod Music Player (InformationWeek)

Wednesday 11 March 2009 @ 2:10 pm

The refresh of the iPod Shuffle is the size of a AA battery but stores 1,000 songs and supports playlists.

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Survey shows increasing preference for MP3 by youngsters, audiophiles weep (Engadget)

Monday 9 March 2009 @ 6:56 am

We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we'll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he's been recording results that'll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to listen to tracks in MP3 format as well as in formats of much higher ...

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The new iPod vest with speakers for shoulder pads (CNET)

Friday 6 March 2009 @ 10:51 am

A new Korean design allows iPod users to have speakers built in to the shoulder pads of their jackets, freeing them from using earphones. It's guaranteed to annoy a few people.

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CeBIT 2009: Windows Mobile has no future, future of mobile Windows is Google Android ! (MS Mobiles)

Thursday 5 March 2009 @ 3:41 pm

March 05, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R.

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Ballmer: Win Mobile 6.5 an unwanted stopgap (MacNN)

Thursday 5 March 2009 @ 2:45 pm

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer delivered a partial surprise at his company's Public Sector CIO Summit yesterday through remarks that his company's upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 wasn't an intended part of the company's cellphone OS roadmap. Although the executive still considers 6.5 important, he noted the update is "not the full release [Microsoft] wanted" in 2009 and implied that it was filling in ...

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A plug-and-play way to convert your media collection (The Globe and Mail)

Thursday 5 March 2009 @ 2:13 pm

Despite a few hiccups, the iRecord Pro is a simple solution for those looking to translate records, tapes and TV with minimum fuss

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Recharge gizmos on the run for $29 shipped (CNET)

Thursday 5 March 2009 @ 11:44 am

The Tekkeon TekCharge is a compact rechargeable battery that can juice hundreds of different devices. It normally sells for about $45, but Amazon has this deal.

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Microsoft Pledges to Speed Windows Mobile Development (Phone Scoop)

Thursday 5 March 2009 @ 9:11 am

Speaking at a conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company will do better at getting Windows Mobile products and updates to market sooner. Responding to a question about the wave of competing devices such as the iPhone ... (follow link to read)

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