Creative has been trying hard to take away some of Apple’s market share in the portable MP3 player market. In the past it has focused on losing strategies like expanded marketing ignoring the fact that its bloated product line is a serious problem in and of itself. Now, Creative has apparently hit upon yet another…
October, 2006
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After years of trying to get it shut down outright, the music industry seems to have scored a minor victory with Visa’s decision to suspend service to Russian music site AllofMP3.com. VISA International spokesman Simon Barker told CNET, It’s [AllofMP3.Com] no longer permitted to accept Visa cards. The action we’ve taken is in line with…
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Kelly McKiernan has built the coolest-looking Lego Stargate I’ve seen. The best thing is that not only do the chevrons light up, but “an RCX drives a treadmill which spins the inner ring randomly for x seconds, then reverses direction, seven times.” Amazing.
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The Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6 is easily the coolest stock Nerf gun ever, These retail for about $30. I must have one.
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Comic Book Ads is a collection of ads from comic books, including the classic Sea Monkey ads,
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ZDNet has an odd take and ECD Systems have an odd view on a study by the latter that found 28 percent of consumers avoid buying PC games that are copy protected. Both ZDNet and ECD Systems stress that only 28 percent avoid copy-protected games. Huh? More than a quarter of consumers actively avoid buying…
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Wow, I thought the U.S. FCC was a bunch of fascist micro-managers, but low powered FM transmitters for iPods and other MP3 players are currently illegal to use (but apparently not sell or by) in the United Kingdom. WTF? The UK is finally creating new regulations which should make such transmitters legal by Christmas. Source:…
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Jeff Taylor takes a few swipes at John Ashcroft, but undermines his case by repeating a favorite staple of conspiracy nuts — that Ashcroft may have had prior warnings of the 9/11 attacks since he stopped flying commercial aircraft in the summer of 2001. The only problem is that isn’t true. Taylor writes about Ashcroft’s…
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Earlier this year I switched from NewzCrawler to SharpReader for keeping track of all of the RSS feeds I’m subscribed to. The past couple weeks, though, I gave up on SharpReader as well and switched to Google’s latest version of its still-in-beta Google Reader. I used Bloglines for a week a couple years ago and…
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The Toymaker is a site devoted to paper toys and other epherma like these paper spinners,