Walmart Breaks Their Product
BoingBoing is reporting that WalMart is shutting down their DRM servers. Anyone who bought mp3′s from WalMart before Feb 2008 could lose access to them because Walmart will be shutting down their DRM server. WalMart recommends you burn them to CD – maybe they’ll put blank CD’s on sale to help you out.
Paul Newman Dies at Age 83
Paul Newman has died at age 83. He was one of the greats, whether it was Cool Hand Luke, Newman’s Own brand donating over $200 million to charity or the Hole In The Wall Gang Camp.
Paid For Failure
According to Fox News Washington Mutual’s new CEO will be paid $20 million for his 17 days on the job before his company collapsed. MSNBC.COM lays out a scenario where taxpayers could pay billions. U.S. taxpayers, meantime, could end up shouldering billions of dollars worth of shaky mortgages and other investments that contributed to WaMu’s [...]
XBox Takes the Lead…
… if you ignore those other guys. Ars Technica reports: The Xbox 360 sold 195,200 units last month, taking the lead back from Sony. Farther down the article they do mention Nintendo, with 453,000 Wii’s and 518,300 DS’s sold. So I guess Nintendo is so far ahead thay aren’t even considered part of the competition. [...]
DRM News
There were a couple of DRM (Digital Restrictions Rights Management) related news items in the news today. The first is related to the game Spore which was released over the weekend. Amazon.com has a one star customer rating on it with 860 one star reviews. And growing constantly, even as I write this. EA added [...]
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