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sony ebook reader review

A review of the new Sony eBook ...

cool gadget, bad DRM

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steve jobs on music and devices

an interesting interview in the wsj

comments on photos, portable storage devices and video in addition to music

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sony airboard

This reminds one of prototypes from eyc's group - it has some of the same basic traveling functions. Battery life and size aren't very impressive.

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audio report on ipods

A very interesting report (mp3 about 11MB) from the Berkman Center at Harvard

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photo printers

The February 2004 issue of MacWorld has a reasonably thorough test of photo color printers. The bottom lines:

• don't use them as regular text printers
• the only inexpensive dye-sub printer, the Olympus P-440, sucks and costs $2 per print
• the HP Photosmart 7960 is mediocre
• far and away the best is the Canon i960 -- and it only costs $200

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wifi based home entertainment systems

Ed, Rich and I have done quite a bit of testing here. There are many cases where products like these will fail.

Some homes are rf junkyards.

You really wonder if the manufacturers consider the home rf environment.

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gloo music

Interesting stuff

from their blurb:

 
::: What is GLOO?
GLOO is a Java-based platform for creating network applications that distribute multimedia content in a peer-to-peer fashion between devices on a network. GLOO is the way to bridge the chasm between PCs and Consumer Electronic devices by making the content stored on a PC (or other media storage device) accessible to legacy, current and future consumer electronics devices (such as an existing stereo system).

Key features:
Peer-to-peer network architecture – All GLOO enabled devices communicate with each other on a TCP/IP network wired or wirelessly.
Interoperable protocol standard – GLOO devices will work with other GLOO devices from different manufacturers.
Multi-platform – Because GLOO is written in 100% Java, it will run on any platform or device that supports the Java Runtime Environment.
Independence from media management – GLOO works with popular content management systems (iTunes, MusicMatch, WinAMP).
Open firmware philosophy – The Java source will be made available to the GLOO developer community. Developers will be able to enhance any of the software components including the firmware running on the hardware.

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hp consumer products and strategy

HP's consumer product strategy.

there be dragon's there

do they know?

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pvr blog

A very interesting blog to follow ...

PVR news and comments (courtesy of Ed)

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disknetwork tivo

As expected - streaming video from the sky to TiVo like devices. TiVo seems to be missing the boat these days.

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