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Archive for February 28, 2008
48% of teenagers bought zero (0) CDs in 2007
Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry’s painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, according to a report released today.
FCC Hearing: Comcast Caught Paying People to Fill the Room
Comcast paid people to wait on line and fill the room at their FCC hearing, effectively excluding any opponents from attending the hearing. Some of the people that they hired were even caught sleeping! (pic) Hundreds of people that were not paid to show were denied entrance.
Zibri’s iPhone jailbreak works with 1.1.4
TUAW is there first– jailbreakers need not worry about the new update, because the jailbreak isn’t one of the “bugs” fixed.
Apple iPhone SDK Event - March 6
Apple has just sent out invitations to press and developers to an event hosting the introduction of the iPhone SDK.
Man Records Phishing Call
A man in Virginia who apparently likes to record suspicious phone calls captured a 10-minute talk with the world’s clumsiest phisher who called his house trying to get his bank account number.
Music exec: “Music 1.0 is dead.”
Creative? The music industry? Absolutely. At a major music industry conference in New York, execs gathered to talk about the industry’s shift to Music 2.0—even if no one is quite sure what that means.
Top 3 Indie Games to Watch Out For
A year ago, nobody would have cared. But with Portal’s rise from indie oddity to game of the year, everybody is suddenly interested in IGF’s videogame competition, which runs during the Game Developers Conference each year.
Oregon State increases reliance on Macs
Apple’s popular ‘Get a Mac’ TV spots are also causing a stir, according to Dave Nevin, IT manager for college community network.
“The Mac vs. PC ads are very compelling marketing; and I think they’ve had sway,” Nevin said.
Worst hard drive crash ever [pics]
We pulled a bad drive apart at work this afternoon. It had a nasty rattle to it before we opened it, but we didn’t expect this:
Huge Leak: Database of 8,700+ stolen cooperate FTP accounts
The stolen credentials belong to companies from around the world and include more than 2500 North American companies, some of which are the world’s top 100 domains, according to security company Finjan. The ISP hosting the db has been notified but they still have not removed it. Finjan says companies can email them to check if their info was stolen
Google to ISO: Say no to OOXML
Google has called for ISO member bodies to reject Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format during the upcoming voting period. According to Google, OOXML is unnecessary and suffers from technical flaws.
