Archive for November 15th, 2007

The WGA Strike and the Death of Television

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Because of TiVo, iTunes and BitTorrent, TV’s becoming obsolete. Like the music industry, the TV industry realizes that their tried-and-true business model is about to be useless, and its lashing out in panic. Unlike the music industry, who attacked its fans, the TV industry is attacking its own: writers. Gizmodo talks to both sides.read […]

McDonald’s To Take On Starbucks

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Take note, Starbucks: McDonald’s is coming after you. Yes, that McDonald’s.
Emboldened by rave reviews for the relaunch of its coffee business 18 months ago, the company is planning to roll out premium coffee drinks — including smoothies, frappes and bottled beverages — priced just below that of Starbucks.read more | digg story
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Road to Mac Office 2008: Word ‘08 vs Pages 3.0

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The planned mid-January release of Office 2008 offers a significant overhaul of the productivity suite’s look and features. The previous segment described the challenges in front of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft: deliver a new suite of applications with the features of the Windows side, but with an appearance and behaviors attractive to […]

Warner Music chief has epiphany, praises Apple

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

“We used to fool ourselves,” he said. “We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong.”read more | digg story
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