Google Video Blog Apologizes for E-mailing Kama Sutra Worm
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Intel Packages Blogs, RSS, and Wikis for Businesses
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Microsoft Strikes Deal for Music
In a rare move, Microsoft said that it had agreed to pay a percentage of the sales of its new portable media player to the Universal Music Group.
Helio Adds New GPS-enabled Phone
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Yahoo to Embed Instant Messaging in E-mail
Yahoo is planning to embed instant messaging into its Web-based e-mail program within the next few months so that people can have live chats in Yahoo Mail, even if they don't have an instant-messaging application installed.
Broadcom Claims First Universal DVD Chip
Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.
Technology Mistake du Jour:
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
You know, this quote is often taken out of context, to make it seem like Harry Warner didn't believe at all in talking pictures...
In reality, while he was skeptical at first about sound, once he was persuaded to see a demo, he felt that the real benefit of adding sound to movies would be so that people could experience recorded musical performances -- singers, jazz bands, and symphonies -- not talking actors.
Warner Bros. was, of course, the first studio to make movies with a musical score ('Don Juan') and later, to make movies that had talking actors, too (`The Jazz Singer').
As a result, Warner Bros., which had the "first-mover advantage" with sound, saw its profits grow from $2 million in 1928 to $17 million in 1929.
Posted by: Scott Kirsner | November 10, 2006 at 11:46 AM