RealNetworks Plans to Sell Songs to Be Played on iPods

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RealNetworks to sell iPod-compatible
songs

RealNetworks to sell iPod-compatible
songs 07/25/2004 11:03 PM
RealNetworks plans to release new software this week that allows songs purchased through its online music store to be played on Apple's iPod -- the first time a company other than Apple has sold songs that will work with the popular device...

Apple Attacks RealNetworks Plan to Sell
Songs for iPod

Apple Attacks RealNetworks Plan to Sell
Songs for iPod 07/29/2004 10:20 PM
Apple Computer said it was investigating the legal implications of RealNetworks's decision to sell songs in Apple's music format.

RealNetworks Plans to Sell Digital Music
at Half Price

RealNetworks Plans to Sell Digital Music
at Half Price 08/17/2004 02:00 AM
RealNetworks is putting its digital music offerings on sale at half price as part of an aggressive strategy to force its way onto Apple Computer's popular iPod digital music player.

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style

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Managing Tracks: Delete Never Played
Songs from iTunes

Managing Tracks: Delete Never Played
Songs from iTunes 12/17/2004 06:30 PM
This script will survey the selected Playlist for tracks with a play count of 0 and remove them completely from iTunes, then Trash their files. Use with extreme caution!

RealNetworks Sells Songs For The iPod

RealNetworks Sells Songs For The iPod 07/26/2004 10:45 AM

RealNetworks Sells 3 Mln Songs, Ends
Download Promo (Reuters)

RealNetworks Sells 3 Mln Songs, Ends
Download Promo (Reuters) 09/09/2004 11:17 AM
Reuters - RealNetworks Inc. is ending its 49 cent-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said on Thursday.

RealNetworks to sell music at a loss

RealNetworks to sell music at a loss 08/17/2004 07:40 AM
USA Today Aug 17 2004 12:22PM GMT

Apple Acts Hurt By RealNetworks Efforts
To Make iPods Slightly More Usable

Apple Acts Hurt By RealNetworks Efforts
To Make iPods Slightly More Usable 07/29/2004 01:23 PM
As expected, given a few days to look over the fact that RealNet works had made iPods just slightly more usable by coming up with a way that people buying songs in Real's download store could move those songs to an iPod, Apple has responded quite angrily, claiming they're "stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod." That's right. How dare they come up with a way to make the product appeal to more people!

Makro to sell iPods

Makro to sell iPods 05/03/2004 10:12 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 4 2004 2:57AM GMT

HP to sell branded iPods

HP to sell branded iPods 01/08/2004 08:12 PM
"we only really hate dell and microsoft", apple fans clarify

HOWTO legally sell downloads of
cover-songs

HOWTO legally sell downloads of
cover-songs 07/30/2004 05:06 AM
CDBaby, a wonderful indie music publisher, has put up a howto for legally selling downloads of cover songs.

If you record a cover version of a song, (meaning your performance of a song that has been released in the U.S. with consent of the copyright owner), you are entitled by law to release your recording commercially, and the owner of the copyright to the song cannot prevent you from doing so.

The Copyright Act provides for what is called a "Compulsory License", which means that if you follow the steps set forth by statute, you can distribute your recording of that song on a CD or over the internet.

The following details the procedure for individuals to obtain a compulsory license to digitally distribute cover songs over the Internet to end users in the United States.

Link (Thanks, John!)

iTunes Music Store to sell 474 million
songs in 2005

iTunes Music Store to sell 474 million
songs in 2005 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Apple is on track towards selling 474 million songs on the iTunes Music Store during 2005 as the company is currently selling 5.5 million downloads a week, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. "Based on yesterday's update, it appears that the weekly iTunes run rate is approximately 5.5m songs per week, up from the 3.5 to 4.0 million range in the September quarter." Gene Munster said. "We now expect iTunes downloads in the December quarter to reach 68.5 million vs. our estimate of 52." Last week, Apple announced that it had surpassed 200 million downloads with the 200 millionth song downloaded by Ryan Alekman of Belchertown, MA.

Apple Euro iTunes Stores Sell 50m Songs
Year One

Apple Euro iTunes Stores Sell 50m Songs
Year One 06/24/2005 04:42 PM

Apple's European iTunes Music Stores have together sold more than 50m songs in their first 12 months in business, the company said today. By Tony Smith, The Register

Taiwan Apple Stores coming; 7-11 to sell
iPods

Taiwan Apple Stores coming; 7-11 to sell
iPods 08/16/2004 10:00 AM
The Taiwan Economic News reports that Apple has announced new sales strategies to develop its businesses in Taiwan...

Hitachi Plans To Double Drive Production
For iPods

Hitachi Plans To Double Drive Production
For iPods 05/17/2004 02:45 PM

Virgin plans to sell herself on Internet

Virgin plans to sell herself on Internet 01/27/2004 12:11 AM
Washington Times Jan 27 2004 3:51AM GMT

Viacom plans to sell Blockbuster

Viacom plans to sell Blockbuster 02/10/2004 10:39 AM
The US media giant aims to sell its 81% stake in Blockbuster after reporting losses for the final three months of 2003.

Qwest Plans to Sell Pay Phone Business
(AP)

Qwest Plans to Sell Pay Phone Business
(AP) 05/07/2004 04:30 PM
AP - Qwest Communications International Inc. said Friday it is selling its pay phone division because it is no longer a good fit in the fast-growing wireless industry.

Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus
Software

Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus
Software 06/16/2004 04:34 PM

Verizon Admits It Plans To Sell Fiber
Access To Other ISPs

Verizon Admits It Plans To Sell Fiber
Access To Other ISPs 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
While Verizon has been threa tened to withhold fiber if the FCC forced them to share lines, that doesn't mean they're against selling those lines. Verizon has admitted (via Broadband Reports) that they're in discussions with various ISPs about offering them access to the lines. The article makes it sound like no one expected this to happen -- but that's not true. A lot of people expected them to have this option, but to price it at ridiculous rates that had little to do with the actual costs. The problem was never that Verizon didn't want to sell access to fiber lines -- just that they didn't want the government setting the price.

Will Mini iPods Delete Bigger iPods?

Will Mini iPods Delete Bigger iPods? 01/07/2004 06:38 PM
Well, as every other tech site in the world is now telling you, the not-so-secret rumors that Apple was coming out with a "mini iPod", cleverly named "iPod mini" are completely true. The other big story people are focusing on are that Apple has gotten past their Henry Ford-style color options, and will offer the iPod mini in multiple colors. You can read all the details at other sites, but in looking over the stories about the device, I'm wondering if the iPod mini will replace the iPod itself as the popular music device of choice. Personally, I don't own an iPod or any portable digital music player (I barely have any digital music - so buying such a device would only mean I need to rip all my CDs, which is a project I'm still not ready to bother with). Still, the iPod mini seems to make a lot more sense to me than many other portable music devices. The early MP3 players had way too little memory, but once you get up into the 4 gigabyte range, I wonder how much more some people need. Historically, of course, that's a dangerous viewpoint to take - since we've always figured out ways to fill up empty storage space. With Apple even advertising games, calendars and other iPod apps - you can imagine that the memory will go. However, if I were in the market for such a device, I'd definitely go with the mini iPod version right now: it's a better size for carrying around and it's "good enough" in terms of storage space - not to mention that it's cheaper. Thus, while I'm sure there are some people who simply need to have more storage space, I'm wondering if this mini iPod will steal marketshare away from its big brother.

The Best Games You Haven't Played

The Best Games You Haven't Played 12/29/2004 08:07 AM
Wired News Dec 29 2004 11:11AM GMT

Played in China

Played in China 12/17/2003 10:38 PM
CNET Asia Dec 17 2003 9:50PM ET

Where Music Is Played

Where Music Is Played 03/30/2005 12:56 AM

If the ubiquitousness of music in the iPod universe keeps us away from live performances, we are losing something important. By Fort Wayne News Sentinel

"The Best Games You Haven't Played"

"The Best Games You Haven't Played" 01/01/2005 12:22 AM

The Way It's Meant To Be Played

The Way It's Meant To Be Played 09/22/2004 11:47 AM
TechTree Sep 22 2004 3:05PM GMT

"I got diagnosed with an STD since we
played"

"I got diagnosed with an STD since we
played" 01/03/2005 10:10 AM
A new Internet-based public health program in San Francisco allows gay men with STDs to anonymously inform their partners via e-mail.

Games People Played

Games People Played 08/23/2004 12:35 PM
Wired News Aug 23 2004 5:05PM GMT

Electronic jihad' played down

Electronic jihad' played down 08/27/2004 02:14 PM

MSN Music can be played on Pocket PC

MSN Music can be played on Pocket PC 09/04/2004 05:11 PM

I have a Pocket PC and I consider it the biggest waste of money I have ever spent for a gadget. So the news that you can play music on it that is purchased from MSN is encouraging. This is really no big deal as I have played music on it purchased from other sources for a long time. With only a 128 meg memory stick I don't really think it's worth the hassle though to me honest with you. [Engadget]

9/11 Panel Says F.A.A. Played Down
Scenario

9/11 Panel Says F.A.A. Played Down
Scenario 01/27/2004 02:50 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Months before the Sept. 11 attacks the Federal Aviation Administration played down the possibility of suicide hijackings, saying the greater threat was from explosives smuggled aboard planes, a federal panel investigating the attacks said Tuesday.

Have you played cornhole recently?

Have you played cornhole recently? 06/02/2004 03:23 PM
What is CornHole? While it's true that cornholing has been bandied about Metafilter before,the president of the American Cornholing Association has never really had a chance to speak out. The official rules for Cornhole, the chance to become a card carrying member and the freedom to ask detailed questions on the Cornhole Forum are all now available via this wonderful thing called the Internet.

nToilet - Meant to be played ;)

nToilet - Meant to be played ;) 09/23/2004 05:21 AM

Signs you've played too much Tetris

Signs you've played too much Tetris 03/14/2005 04:24 PM

When I got home last night, I picked up my mail and opened the shirt I ordered from Threadless:

It took me all of two seconds to look at Scandinavia and determine that it was impossible to construct using conventional Tetris pieces. Unless some of the little blocks had been disappeared by clearing a row. And the dialogue in my head when I was thinking about all this was spoken in Professor Frink's voice from The Simpsons. Maybe I need to start reading on the subway rather than playing my GameBoy Advance so much.

Man Who Played Santa Sentenced for
Murder

Man Who Played Santa Sentenced for
Murder 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 10 2003 0:35AM ET

Big Screen Gaming - The Way Its Really
Meant to be Played

Big Screen Gaming - The Way Its Really
Meant to be Played 05/04/2004 11:05 AM

SCO: Microsoft played no role in VC
fundraising

SCO: Microsoft played no role in VC
fundraising 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
The SCO Group Inc. said Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was not involved in raising venture capital funding for the company, dismissing claims that a leaked e-mail demonstrated that Microsoft had helped raise tens of millions of dollars for SCO. An e-mail from an outside consultant to SCO apparently involved in brokering deals for the company was posted to the Open Source Initiative Web site Wednesday. The consultant in the e-mail suggests that Microsoft "brought in $86 million" for SCO and that between US$16 million and $20 million is underway.

People played it with bottle tops

People played it with bottle tops 04/01/2005 09:50 AM
Pool checkers, an ancient game and staple of black culture, is dying.
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XtremeMac announces Freefall satellite
simulator

XtremeMac announces Freefall satellite
simulator 08/31/2004 04:04 AM
XtremeMac has released Freefall, a satellite simulator and screen saver exclusively for Mac OS X (10.2 and higher) and a winner of the 2004 Apple Design Award for Most Innovative Apple Technology Performance Demo...

Freefall 1.0

Freefall 1.0 08/31/2004 04:59 PM
Puts the wonders of satellite exploration at your fingertips, simulating the flight path of more than 650 actual satellites.

New: Freefall 1.0

New: Freefall 1.0 09/03/2004 10:09 AM
Freefall can simulate the flight paths of more than 650 actual satellites, Global Positioning Systems, GOES, NOAA, and other unclassified orbiters.

Freefall Released

Freefall Released 09/02/2004 02:10 PM

Multimedia Games in Freefall

Multimedia Games in Freefall 07/29/2004 06:40 PM
TheStreet.com Jul 29 2004 10:39PM GMT

.Mac members get Freefall screen saver,
new tutorials

.Mac members get Freefall screen saver,
new tutorials 02/01/2005 09:21 PM
Apple is now offering .Mac members a free screen saver from XtremeMac's Freefall satellite simulator and a 30 percent discount on the software...

Just say no to Crack

Just say no to Crack 04/23/2004 02:51 PM
Staking out the high moral ground, a bill would punish those wearing low-riding jeans. It seems that Represe ntative Derrick D. T. Shepherd of Louisiana, a Democrat no less, wants to outlaw low slung pants. Plumbers beware, and stock up on Butt-Crack Caulk! Really, don't they have anything better to legislate besides fashion or holidays?

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TV on crack

TV on crack 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
Is A&E's "Intervention" the most exploitative reality show ever, or a necessarily brutal snapshot of the perils of addiction?

First Crack in the Wall?

First Crack in the Wall? 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
This is the first announced change in the status quo since IBM announced the sale of their entire line of laptops to the Chinese firm Lenovo. As with some other people, I’m still awainting experience to tell us if it’s a good or bad thing. Lenovo will slightly modify the “IBM ThinkPad” brand in the relatively near future, said Lenovo CEO-designate Stephen Ward on Monday at PC Forum, which is taking place here this week….

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Kernel crack

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"Conservative Crack-Up"

"Conservative Crack-Up" 11/19/2003 03:31 PM

Alcohol is the new crack!

Alcohol is the new crack! 01/02/2005 11:10 PM
“N ot only is it illegal, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous,” Leggio said of underage drinking. How dangerous? Well apparently dangerous enough that one affluent Kansas City community has decided that it is best to have police spy on teens during high school basketball games. Oh it gets better, apparently a carload of teens is enough for a Lenexa cop to follow you! So the parents should be up in arms right? Nope, they encourage the police, even calling them ("she told dispatchers that when she called home to check on her son, it sounded like a party was going on"). Yet surprisingly, despite this almost police-state like mentality against drinking, atti tudes are slow to change.

FeedDemon Crack

FeedDemon Crack 06/18/2004 09:27 AM

Dave Winer and Evan Williams commented that the people who shout the loudest are often the ones who have no basis for their anger. I'm reminded of this fact by an email I received this morning. Here's a quote:

"Fix your piece of s--- program! I upgraded to FeedDemon 1.10 and it crashes with 'Win32 device error.' Did you even test this s---?"

I've actually received a number of emails (and one forum post) about this bug, but I have no plans to fix it. Why? Because the error message only appears if you upgrade a cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0. This is a deliberate error message that FeedDemon 1.10 displays when it detects that you upgraded from a specific cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0.

That's right, people who use a pirated version of FeedDemon are emailing me for support. It never ceases to amaze me when people not only steal from me, but also expect me to spend my time answering their questions. And more often than not, the email I've received about this problem reads like something a drunk teenager would write.

I've written about piracy befor e and I'm not planning to start another lengthy rant. But I do have a request for those who have justified their use of cracked versions of my work: don't ask for support. I support my family with sales of my software, and my life is affected - dramatically - by the existence of cracks. Please, if you're using a pirated version of my software, don't expect me to help you.

New Bluetooth Crack

New Bluetooth Crack 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

Happy Friday:

Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for hackers to eavesdrop on conversations and charge their own calls to someone else's cellphone.

"Our attack makes it possible to crack every communication between two Bluetooth devices, and not only if it is the first communication between those devices," says Shaked.

Check out the time required to pull this off:

They show that once an attacker has forced two devices to pair, they can work out the link key in just 0.06 seconds on a Pentium IV-enabled computer, and 0.3 seconds on a Pentium-III. "This is not just a theoretical break, it's practical," says Schneier.

Via New Scientist.

How to crack passwords, and why you
should

How to crack passwords, and why you
should 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

where i can give a crack for sims2?

where i can give a crack for sims2? 09/20/2004 03:02 PM
TechTree Sep 20 2004 6:36PM GMT

Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa

Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa 09/14/2004 01:54 AM
As God Is My Cleaning Lady: Crypto-Fado For Bohemian Pagan Popsters. They can't play their classical Fado guitars very well; they have a punky drummer and the Fado singer not only smiles pouts and shakes her hips, but actually seems to enjoy herself! What's become of this country? Are they mad? Reckless, certainly. They call themselves A Naifa and what they've done is taken a massive, ice-crunching Waring Pro blender to all the sacred potions, fruits and flavours of Portuguese traditional music and poured out a vulgar, shameless, disrespectful and utterly delicious shambles of a Pop cocktail. Heresy in old Lisbon? I nearly choked on my 30-year-old aguardente velha, but then realized I was dancing merrily and had already spilt most of it anyway. [Probably not fun for those unfamiliar with the Fado. QuickTime required.]

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Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure?

Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? 09/10/2004 04:44 PM

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams

UK, US and Canada crack down on Net
scams 04/30/2004 10:50 AM
Closer co-operation

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates

Feds Crack Down On Web Pirates 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
CBS News Apr 23 2004 6:53PM GMT

"Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug"

"Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug" 06/19/2004 04:52 PM

Fifteen of us gathered last night for a screening of the 1992 Tim Robbins political satire Bo b Roberts.  This mockumentary of a folksinging conservative Wall Street trader turned politician has held up surprisingly well.  In the background of the movie, President Bush is in the White House and American troops are about to invade Iraq.  Gore Vidal does a great job playing a Ted Kennedy-style career senator.  The songs are fun but sadly the soundtrack has never been made available.

My favorite part of the movie is when Bob Roberts closes a letter to a 7-year-old girl in Vermont with the admonition "Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug."

This is the perfect movie for an election-year party.

100 years of solitude -- on crack

100 years of solitude -- on crack 01/22/2004 04:56 AM
Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga "Rosario Tijeras," it may have found its first masterpiece.

AutoZone developer says SCO is on crack

AutoZone developer says SCO is on crack 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
SCO Group sued AutoZone (full text of the complaint) for having used their libraries when they migrated to Linux. They don't have any evidence, but rather just say "they did it too fast, so they must have gotten help from IBM and stolen our code". (Note, it didn't have anything to do with the Linux code). The lead developer at AutoZone at the time of the migration writes on Groklaw that the SCO claims is a pile of %$%#$. They...

3D holograms to crack forgeries

3D holograms to crack forgeries 08/11/2004 08:18 AM
A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents.

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best. Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little better than this: The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_] Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok, not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation. Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version. Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I don't have a clue there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

A crack in DeLay's armor

A crack in DeLay's armor 04/11/2005 10:36 AM
Robert Novak's protestations notwithstanding, a Republican congressman says it's time for the House majority leader to resign.

Hackers crack Sony PSP

Hackers crack Sony PSP 06/17/2005 04:44 PM

Congress Set to Crack Down on Spyware

Congress Set to Crack Down on Spyware 06/28/2004 12:18 AM
The collective mind of congress is rapidly turning to the fall elections, but some issues are pressing enough to warrant continued attention, among them spyware.

RealNetworks Plans to Sell Songs to Be Played on iPods

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