Archive for the ‘The News’ Category

Everyone’s a Critic

One of the best news sites on the internet, Ars Technica, received a great big compliment the other day when the MPAA blog included some choice words for them. According to the MPAA blog on Tuesday, “Arts Technica” is a “tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft.” (If so, [...]

28 Days Laterer

Oh, come on guys. From Reuters: For the past year, studios have been flirting with stretching out the delays on when Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster can rent new releases, but it looks like Warner Bros. is going to be the first to take the plunge. The studio plans to make the home entertainment companies wait [...]

AT&T-Mobile: A Failure

History is full of tragic loves. Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Elizabeth Taylor and like half of Hollywood. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Now, the failed marriage of AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T had this to say for itself: “The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not [...]

The Amazondroid Kindle Fire

MG Siegler, writing for TechCrunch, on Google’s fatal mistake with Android: making it open-source Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Every chance they get, someone from Google brings this up as a huge advantage of Android over rivals like iOS. Never mind the fact that a good percentage of the time it’s [...]