Apple Hints Drive Speculation of New Notebooks, Mac Tablets
By Brian X. Chen July 22, 2008 2:41:59 PM
Apple touted healthy sales of Macs and iPods in a conference call yesterday, but it was a mysterious reference to future products that has created the most buzz today.
In its quarterly earnings call Monday, Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheim alluded to a "future product transition" while explaining why Apple's gross margins will drop from 34.8 percent to 31.5 percent between July and September. That kind of teasing reference -- without any specifics, naturally -- has got analysts, tech bloggers and Mac fans busily speculating over just what those products will be.
Leading the list: A revamped line of MacBooks, or perhaps the long-awaited touch-screen Mac tablet.
Me parecio un buen articulo, porqe me gusta saber como van avanzando las Macs, los nuevos modelos, etc.
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Engineers to Establish 3-D Home Video Standards
By Betsy Schiffman July 22, 2008 4:04:11 PM
How long will it be before 3-D videos come to the living room? Unclear, but by some estimates, it could be another five years before the projectors are affordable enough to become mainstream. In the meantime, the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers is establishing a taskforce of engineers to help develop standards for 3-D home video, so that a 3-D DVD will theoretically work with all players.
"Digital technologies have not only paved the way for high quality 3-D in the theaters, they have also opened the door to 3-D in the home," said Wendy Aylsworth, vice president of engineering at SMPTE, in a prepared statement. "In order to take advantage of this new opportunity, we need to guarantee consumers that they will be able to view the 3-D content they purchase and provide them with 3-D home solutions for all pocketbooks."
Me parecio un buen articulo porque me interesa saber como va el avance de la tecnologia 3D, ya que me parece algo bastante innovador.
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EMusic Extends Into Social, Media Networks
By Eliot Van Buskirk July 22, 2008 4:12:32 PM
The eMusic MP3 subscription service has a new strategy that involves pushing its content out to social networking sites while integrating links to relevant online media from its own site.Subscribers can now embed eMusic album art and song samples on Del.ici.ous, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter and 13 similar sites, with others apparently set to be added soon.
In addition, eMusic album pages now include links to YouTube videos of bands playing live, photos of artists on Flickr and links to bands' Wikipedia pages. Users will be able to interact with Flickr and YouTube without leaving the eMusic site, with the ability to forward media to friends, write reviews, bookmark or embed photos and videos.
"Stores like iTunes, Amazon and even the new Rhapsody are missing the boat," said eMusic CEO David Pakman in a statement issued on Tuesday. "Blogs and recommendations from friends are now more relevant in music discovery than what music critics have to say, but what's missing is a place that brings that all together. EMusic is that place. This is the first of six months of dramatic product improvements which we believe will set the bar for the way 'long tail' retailers -- and indeed all entertainment retailers -- must function online."
In addition to the above improvements, eMusic upped the resolution on its album art and surfaced its own editorial to make it easier to explore.
However, there doesn't appear to be a way to embed albums on an unsupported blog (I just tried), since eMusic doesn't appear to expose the raw HTML code. Instead, you must enter your user information for the social media sites into your eMusic account in order to to post albums directly. Still, overall, it's hard to see how eMusic's new stratagy of integrating both inwards and outwards with the rest of the web can fail to have a beneficial effect on the service.
EMusic subscriptions provide access to un-DRMed MP3 files from a catalog of over 3.5 million tracks from over 27 million independent labels. Plans range from $6 for 10 songs per month up to $75 for 300 tracks per month, with discounts available if you pay for a whole year in advance.
Me parecio un articulo interesante, porqe habla de la musica y las redes sociales, 2 temas qe me gustan e interesan mucho.
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