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...Adam R. Gold’s Nov. 30 comment on the Amazon Kindle e-book reader (“Stick to Harcover”), he glosses over the biggest problem with the new gadget. All books that are bought through the Amazon store—which is, of course, the only practical way to read full books at all on the device—come crippled with DRM (Digital Rights Management Software). This is the same type of software that is included on most tracks purchased through the iTunes Music Store. This is “copy protection?...
...Person of the Year. He is a true visionary who continues to lead the technological revolution. Year after year, Apple creates must-have products that shape how we live our lives. The iPod and iTunes have clearly had a legendary impact, and the iPhone is this year's best gadget by far. Jobs and Apple continue to lead us into a wonderful, new technological future...
...principle, of course, e-books are good for society—they save trees and promote reading in a trendy, new gadget form (particularly necessary for a generation already more comfortable reading newspapers online than in print.) It can’t be long before this form of reading catches on in a big way, especially as the range of books available in e-book form broadens. But even if the market does take off soon, Kindle won’t be leading...
George Polk has rattled cell-phone carriers once before. The American, 42, runs a network of wi-fi hot spots called the Cloud that allows laptop and gadget users to surf the Web for around $8.50 an hour or $17 a month at 7,500 cafs, hotels, pubs, airports and other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build...
...submits its data back to Arbitron. Simple? Maybe, but also annoying. Survey participants that were given the device often forgot to wear the pager all day, and at times forgot to even dock it for the evening. The issue is especially prevalent among younger demographics who hardly need another gadget. When you already have to worry about two cell phones, a Blackberry, and an iPod, who’s really going to give their pager throwback any attention?But in the end, the biggest problem for radio when it comes to counting people is getting numbers that actually matter. PPMs...