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1. Can Palm or Zune beat Apple?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 21 May 2009

   ... for both Palm and Microsoft to do significant damage to Apple.  Palm's big opportunity comes when they move from just Sprint to a variety of carriers early next year and Microsoft's comes if they ...

2. Apple's placebo iTunes upgrade

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Thursday, 12 March 2009

   ... a base of intermediary code which translates the OS X framework into specific Windows program calls, adding significantly to the overall bloat and overhead.The technique allows Apple to rapidly develop applications ...

3. Why the DRM-free iTunes Store is a rip-off

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Wednesday, 07 January 2009

   ... than with uniform pricing model. We can only guestimate the exact percentage of the revenue coming from new releases in total music sales, but it surely isn't insignificant. Whichever way you choose ...

4. Post-Jobs Apple to profit from content and services, not just gadgets

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 07 January 2009

   ... making great gadgets, it just won't unveil them come every January. Yesterday's keynote taught us of two new trends at Apple - content and services. Both of these might contribute significantly to the ...

5. 2009: Year of mergers, platform changes and conservation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 26 December 2008

   ... during the last several years, making significant advancements in energy conservation technology and we'll see the results of this next year even though energy costs are falling. This trend will bring ...

6. Steve Jobs' Macworld 2009 keynote uncertain

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 16 December 2008

   ... most exhibitors downsizing and several big names reducing significantly their visibility. Others decided to skip the event altogether, including Adobe, Belkin, CreativeLabs, and Seagate, none of which ...

7. Thoughts about Windows 7: What to look forward to

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Tuesday, 28 October 2008

     Analyst Opinion - Windows 7 is the next big jump for Windows after Vista, Scheduled for a 2009 release, the software is driven by a largely new team, the organization building the product is significantly ...

8. A new try of buy once, play anywhere – without Apple

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 15 September 2008

   ... technology firms Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Philips, Sony, Toshiba and Verisign as well as distributors Best Buy (which today acquired Napster) and Comcast. What is significant of this ...

9. Aiming for the iPhone: Android SDK arrives without Bluetooth, first Android handset surfaces

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 18 August 2008

   ... Bluetooth was made due to “significant API changes in the upstream open-source project and due to the timeline of getting certain Bluetooth profile implementations certified.”   Developers who played ...

10. Anticipating the iPod killer

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 May 2008

    ... over the years, there has not been a single significant threat to the iPod’s dominance in almost seven years. That is a fascinating fact in itself and makes you wonder what it actually is that makes the ...

11. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... have been taken from Timna, but the company declined to provide details which ones they may have been and stressed that carried over “ideas” are insignificant. The most accurate description of the origin ...

12. Macrovision buys TV Guide for $2.8 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 07 December 2007

    ... Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will gain a significant share of the new company. Santa Clara (CA) – DRM company Macrovision said it has agreed to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide, merging the two companies ...

13. UPDATE: Phoenix announces HyperSpace: Instant-on computing for the masses

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... (IN) - Yesterday, Phoenix Technologies, the BIOS makers, announced a new product that could significantly change the way we use our notebooks.  Called HyperSpace, this new technology provides BIOS-level ...

14. Blockbuster to buy Movielink

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    ... there were significantly more sources offering video downloads legally, and movie studios became much more interested in digital downloads operated by third parties.  In May 2006, Business Week reported ...

15. Wrap-up: AMD outlines a bright future at Technology Analyst Day

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 26 July 2007

    ... forming. AMD called them the “factor of 10” approach. This approach indicates that a given design architecture can generally scale in power and performance by about a factor of 10 without significant ...

16. Steve Jobs promises a “Greener” Apple

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 03 May 2007

    ... a big part in Apple’s green initiative and Job says the company currently recycles approximately 13 million pounds of electronic waste a year.  That number will grow significantly and he claims ...

17. Opinion: Can Zune survive?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 April 2007

    ... Zune has failed to capture significant market share in the MP3 player arena.  It has managed to hang around, though, partly because competition around it has been stale.  With the long-awaited ...

18. Intel set to launch Bearlake FSB1333 chipset at Cebit

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 March 2007

    ... a while with the new FSB1333 generation of Core 2Duo processors and apparently are capable of providing a "significant" speed boost. We are hearing news about systems that are able to boot a ...

19. Opinion: Who needs DRM?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 February 2007

    ... posting is one of the most significant moves we have seen in digital music in several years. And maybe, just maybe you could see other technology companies joining Apple in this unprecedented effort. Everyone ...

20. EMI considers DRM-free music downloads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 February 2007

    ... the problem in the industry.  Record labels have differing views about how to sell music digitally, but they all have to go through major online retailers, like iTunes and Connect, to see significant ...

21. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 January 2007

    ... that Blu-ray has a significant cost disadvantage right now anyway; but I doubt the other HD-DVD manufacturers are particularly happy (though they weren't vocal about that at CES) about this rapid drop ...

22. Analyst opinion: Searching for the perfect Media Center PC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 28 December 2006

    ... standards but really can't (see Blu-ray). And the critical PlayStation division doesn't seem to want to be on the same team as the other Sony players. Even more troubling is the fact that Sony's significant ...

23. Is Sony coming back?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 October 2006

    ... visually. Finally, Sony has dropped the launch price in Japan only (US price drop is expected) of this product significantly bringing it more closely in line with the Xbox 360. Still, the Nintendo Wii ...

24. Microsoft's and MTV's URGE challenge iTunes with radio, custom playlists

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 17 May 2006

    ... in Microsoft's new WMP. MSN Music will still be available, though it's likely that service will be played down significantly as MSN's focus changes to more Google-like services. Windows Media Player 11 ...

25. Did MPEG LA spark a division in the mobile DRM industry?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 April 2006

    ... of MPEG LA, Larry Horn, poked significant holes in the ABI study, telling TG Daily that some of its basic premises are actually false. UPDATE 1:15 pm 13 April 2006: This morning, ABI Research posted a ...

26. Can In2TV "broadband television" fuel new growth for AOL?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 28 March 2006

    ... video is still in its embryonic stages as a medium, its market numbers have already become significant, and its tastes and preferences are rapidly developing. "It's already a meaningful market," he said, ...

27. Can IDF relight Intel's fire?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 05 March 2006

    ... will turn around the boat and will have a significant impact on how we use server, desktop and notebook systems. Here are the key questions that will be answered over the next few days: Is NGMA the architecture ...

28. Coral Consortium: Can't all our DRM systems just get along?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 03 March 2006

    The Coral Consortium's goal is to develop a system of interoperability for digital rights management systems around the world - not to make them all alike, but to create some way for them to talk to each ...

29. Microsoft to "encourage" use of ECC memory for Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 February 2006

    ... also has an impact on system performance as especially the ECC's RAM check consumes significant time when booting a computer. Overall, ECC memory is generally believed to be about 1% to 3% slower than ...

30. CD emulators may utilize rootkit-like stealth to circumvent DRM

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 06 February 2006

    ... or undetectable drivers in a Windows system can lead to significant performance degradation across the board. Alcohol Software, incidentally, received a "100% Clean" seal of certification from Softpedia, ...

31. CES 2006 Analysis: Core processor is Intel's ticket to Hollywood

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 January 2006

    ... hopefully resulting in significant sales. As the engine of Viiv, Core has the unenviable task of upgrading the firm's image from a cold, geeky tech company, into a sparkling CE brand. To accomplish this, ...

32. CES 2006 Preview: Will low-power, digital life, and rights management sell to consumers?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 January 2006

    ... action today. This year's show promises several significant announcements that truly will impact the way we use computers, consumer electronics, and telecommunications devices today. Only one of our tasks ...

33. Sony's DRM fix hits hitch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 08 December 2005

      The US computer scientists who discovered a significant security flaw in one of Sony BMG's CD copy protection systems have discovered that the flaw is still present in the patch released by the ...

34. UPDATE 21 NOV - Sony's DRM disaster: A chronology of events

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 November 2005

    ... secure procedure to uninstall the XCP software if it resides on your computer," says McKay. McKay also disputes Kaminsky's claims and believe them to be, " significantly exaggerated." Sony BMG to revise ...

35. Not so much the "video iPod," but maybe smarter, more marketable, say analysts

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 12 October 2005

    ... TG Daily. Guza believes that consumers will perceive iPod as an upgrade with a fairly significant enhancement, not a new product. However, there is certainly something new about it that's noteworthy, she ...

36. DRM moves into digital textbooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 August 2005

    ... be offered at significant less money that a regular printed version. MBS said that instead of a $100 printed version, a DRM-equipped eBook could sell for around $66 and - since it is virtual - will be ...