Here's welcome news to advertisers. A recent study showed that consumers in Southeast Asia are willing to watch advertisements in exchange for free music.
Artwork: Chip Taylor The global study conducted by The Nielsen Company on consumers' interaction with music revealed that Southeast As...
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Credit: Acme Newspictures, Inc. For years, there's been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it's not going to happen. TVs are too commoditized; TVs would have to come in too many sizes; TVs are too off messa...
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Cisco's recent announcement that it was closing its Flip mini-camcorder business got us thinking. It's pretty clear that today's smartphones, with their excellent HD video cameras, are partly to blame for the Flip's demise. But how many other consumer products and services--digital or analog--are be...
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Apple celebrates its 35th birthday on April 1, 2011. Thirty-five years ago, Apple started out in CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs' garage. Three and a half decades on, it is the biggest tech company in the world.
Macworld UK takes a look at some of the highs and lows of the company that started ou...
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Apple is reportedly running short of lithium-ion batteries for its iPods as Japanese chemical maker Kureha stuggles to deal with the aftermath of the recent natural disasters to strike the country.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Kureha has a 70 percent share of the global market for a ...
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Ingenuity: It's the stuff of legends in the geek world. After all, why should you waste your hard-earned cash or spend hours at the old electronics store to purchase items that you can otherwise make yourself? We're not suggesting that you need to become an everyday geek MacGyver, but it's worth kno...
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Jon Bon Jovi has made a spirited and utterly senseless attack on Steve Jobs for personally killing the music business.
Bon Jovi's beef has nothing to do with Napster or bitTorrent or file-sharing or other high-tech ways customers used to avoid paying top dollar for recycled pop music and repack...
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Samsung has unveiled details of its soon-to-be-released Galaxy Player, a handheld device that offers a choice of different screen sizes to let users view movies, play games or run Internet applications on the go.
The Galaxy Player will come with 4-inch or 5-inch screens and is intended to be use...
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When it comes to marketing, few tactics are as tried and true as the celebrity endorsement. Having an iconic person stand behind a brand, after all, can build buzz and make a product memorable.
That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. Sometimes, celebrity endorsements just make you scratch yo...
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It's not official until someone at Microsoft says it's official, but Bloomberg's Dina Bass is reporting that Microsoft will "cease introducing new versions of the Zune music and video-player amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to mobile phones, according to a person familia...
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