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Web Worker Daily has a post about Apple warning iTunes users that their software doesn’t work well with Microsoft Vista.
It seems as though there are a number of compatibility issues with iTunes version 7.0.2, and the new OS. Its something not too overlook either. iTunes music and video purchases from the Apple iTunes Store might not play. Contacts and calendars might not sync up with your iPod. Another eerie compatibility issue involves causing your iPod too corrupt data if it’s not safely removed by selecting Eject iPod from the Controls menu before pulling the plug.
These issues not impact everyone, but Apple suggests not upgrading to Vista just yet. These issues should have been fixed and a software upgrade should have been launched the day Vista was released. As an incumbent in the digital music market, the burden of compatibility falls on Apple. Apple is now offering a repair tool, little consolation to those whose iPod’s have been trashed.
Who do you blame for this fiasco? Have your say in our poll!
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Written by Om Malik on February 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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The countdown to Windows Vista has begun. Microsoft has gussied up the Vista pages, while Dell has started taking orders for Vista-powered machines. For next week or so, we are going to hear all about Vista. There are websites that tell you if your machines are Vista ready. Are you ready to make the jump, spend your dollars and upgrade? Or will you wait for a few months, and buy a new computer that comes preloaded with the new Microsoft OS?
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Written by Om Malik on January 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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Like clockwork, every twelve months Bill Gates gets up on stage and delivers a keynote at the CES, outlining his vision of the future, demoing products and PowerPoint-ing his way through a wide array of products.
He takes a few well deserved swipes at His Jobsness. The undercurrent in his big speech - Microsoft will be everywhere in the future. To hammer in the point, he meets with bloggers who don’t exactly ask the tough business questions. Somehow the future doesn’t happen.
This year was no different, though I have to admit, Microsoft’s vision does look quite tasty. Tasty enough, that this time it might actually happen. I am not holding my breath, just like I am not holding my breath for an Apple Phone, or an iTV box as part of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote. Nevertheless, my opinion doesn’t really count, given my Mac bias, what do you folks think? Take our poll, and rank the chances of Microsoft domination of the digital future.
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Written by Om Malik on January 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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My doorman just brought a package of blogger kryptonite, aka the Acer Ferrari laptop tricked out with Microsoft Vista and Office 2007. Before the recent brouhaha broke out, I was going to do a simple review, and then send the machine back to Microsoft. As I told InternetNews.com, “Frankly, I need another laptop like I need another hole in my head.”
If you have a tricked out MacBook Pro with Parallels, you don’t even need a Ferrari. I will buy Vista when it comes out, and upgrade the WinXP on my MBP, just so I can make sure everything works all across the platform.
Given that I am no Pete Rojas or Walt Mossberg, why would anyone read my review of a laptop? The only thing I thought that was worth checking out was Vista’s networking features, and Outlook’s VoIP capabilities. Regardless, the box sits here ready to be shipped back, unless of course my readers decide otherwise. Take the poll, and let me know. You have the entire weekend to decide.
This is my last post for today, so folks have yourself a Happy New Year!
Written by Om Malik on December 30th, 2006 with no comments.
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It has been a rainy, miserable weekend - the kind which makes you think about strange things like ‘which apple notebook was my favorite writing machine?’ The 12-inch Powerbook G4 despite the small screen was my favorite - great keyboard, enough screen space to focus entirely on writing instead of websites or emails, and decent battery life. Friends swore by the 12-inch iBook, thanks to its wonderful WiFi capabilities. With a new generation of machines already available, and a new ultrathin 12-inch Macbook Pro rumored to launch soon, I thought it is a good time to get your feedback, and picks.
Written by Om Malik on December 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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Techcrunch first reported that COO Dan Rosensweig is going to leave the company by end of March, and Sue Decker will run finance and sales. There was a lot of chatter around a senior executive level meeting at Yahoo, that had been webcast. It was attended only by C-level and top VPs.
Wall Street Journal reports that media-group head Lloyd Braun might be gone as well. WSJ says Decker is likely being groomed to take over from Semel when he retires. Yahoo has issued a press release confirming the shake-up.
Many Silicon Valley insiders in the know have questioned future of Yahoo CEO Terrey Semel, and we have heard that there is some discord with the board members. Given the poor performance of Yahoo stock, and other problems have put Semel, once regarded the sage who saved Yahoo on a weaker footing. Braun’s exit shows that the erstwhile savior might have lost some of his political capital. Braun was one of the executives Yahoo hired at the behest of Yahoo.
With the leaking of the Peanut Butter Manifesto to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s dirty laundry started coming out. What we are seeing is the fallout of that. We had pointed out the exodus of Yahoo managers was a sign of a growing internal malaise.
Written by Om Malik on December 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Techcrunch reports that News Corp., had expressed interest in buying Digg, but nothing has happened thus far, and Digg might raise more money. I think the world of Digg, but frankly have no idea what it is worth. Some say $150 million.
One blogger thinks Google should buy them. His argument - since Google is based on the concept of “page rank,” and Diggers manually “rank” each post by digg-ing it, there could be some mutual benefit. From a pure eyeballs perspective, C/net would be ideal buyer. Digg could add some serious punch to their overall pageviews, and with their sales force, and Digg’s tech-heavy audience, it could be a profitable pairing. What do you think?
Written by Om Malik on October 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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IE 7 is finally out. There is a fierce debate around the new offering from Microsoft. Some say, company is playing catch up with other browsers such as Firefox. Some have deemed it better. Which browser will you choose?
And My Favorite Browser Is -
Written by Om Malik on October 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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The Internets are all chattering about Powerset, a new natural language search start-up, that plans to out-Google, Google. There are a bunch of varied opinions about this company, some good, and most not so good. Danny Sullivan calls it overhyped. What do you think?
Can Powerset really beat Google?
Written by Om Malik on October 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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At the Nokia OpenStudio event in New York, I got to play with most of the Nokia N Series phones, and walked away with distinct impression that the only two models that might prove to be commercial hits were Nokia N73 (candy bar) and Nokia N75 (flip phone for US market.) Given that it was one man’s opinion, I wanted to put the question to you, and to help you have cobbled together a little graphic of N80, N73, N75 and N95. Make your pick… and predict the future. (PS: if you don’t much care about Nokia, let me know which phone could be your musicphone of choice and why? iPhone is not a real product, so lets leave that one out.)
Written by Om Malik on October 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Last few days there has been a lot of talk about Rebtel, Jajah, and a whole slew of VoIP companies which are essentially, as Andy calls them “minute stealers.” Jajah, which has introduced a mobile version of its call back service, well, at least that is easy to use, and good to use in a pinch.
Rebtel is a head-scratcher, and would make you reach for a bottle of aspirin. There is a whole debate around Rebtel currently being played out on the B2blog.
Just because Jeff Pulver likes them, and Index Ventures and Benchmark invested a whole bunch of money in this company doesn’t mean its all that. Rebtel wants consumer behavior change. That is all right, when things are simple, but not when you have to call, wait for 20 seconds and then the other party calls back.
Jeff says they have something up their sleeve - if they do, why not talk about that right now. Otherwise to me Rebtel is nothing but a money stealer. The argument for these services is that they will save money. Well, calling cards save money, are simple to use, and no waiting required. I buy a card, program the number in my cellphone, call parents and well, save money. Pretty low tech, but pretty low stress also.
(PS: Can anyone comment on the impact of these minute stealers on termination fees, especially in countries where these calls are going to be ending up in? Those governments are not going to be happy about this…)
Written by Om Malik on September 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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Liz wrote a long piece on Wallop, a company we have covered in the past. Today, there seems to be a talk around this new social network, mostly because of its Microsoft heritage, and a $10 million investment. What do you guys think about the chances of Wallop?
Written by Om Malik on September 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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Another day in Silly-con valley. WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion. Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now. The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion. Viacom is a suitor for both companies (but Robert Young says Sumner Redstone should look elsewhere). Okay nothing to say, except let the people speak with their vote.
Update: Let’s not forget that Yahoo stock has dropped nearly 15 percent over the last three days! We think the WSJ put so much sweat into the Facebook piece it couldn’t bear to pull the story even when the deal likely evaporated this week. Yet 31 percent of you think the acquisition still stands a chance — maybe a Yahoo desperation move to pick up its spirits?
Meanwhile, comScore wrote in to share some Yahoo-Facebook numbers. In August, Yahoo had 76 percent of the U.S. internet audience of 173 million, while Facebook had 9 percent. The demographic contrasts are interesting, with Facebook filling out some of Yahoo’s smaller age groups.
| Age |
Facebook |
Yahoo |
| 12-17 years old |
9.4 percent |
14.0 percent |
| 18-24 years old |
11.4 percent |
34.0 percent |
| 25-34 years old |
15.5 percent |
8.6 percent |
| 35-44 years old |
19.0 percent |
12.3 percent |
| 45-54 years old |
20.8 percent |
21.1 percent |
| 55-64 years old |
11.3 percent |
5.3 percent |
| 65+ years old |
5.8 percent |
2.3 percent |
Written by Om Malik on September 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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Is Yahoo’s warning of an online advertising slowdown a sign of the times and an end to the online advertising boom? Is it part of a broader economic crisis? Or is it just a Yahoo specific problem? What’s your take on the the sharp volte face in the online advertising business?
Written by Om Malik on September 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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Engadget says Zune is here. Good, iPod has some competition. It has features up the wazoo (sp?) It has wireless connectivity, a 30 gig drive, FM Radio, three inch screen, plus all the usual trimmings. John Biggs says it is going to do social networking as well.
(Like MusicGremlin perhaps?) Wifi and its impact on battery life of digital devices is well known, but will the social network component make up for that? Is Zune giving you a sense of feature creep, or do you think in this case more is more?
Written by Om Malik on September 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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The showtime has come and gone. Some of us are happy with the announcements, while others are unimpressed. Still, Apple refreshed its iPod line-up ahead of the all important Holiday season. The question, however, is that will you spend dollars on any of these new shiny devices.
Written by Om Malik on September 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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There is a lot of chatter about what Apple is going to announce tomorrow at its big “Showtime” event. Since ThinkSecret has not had an update, I am giving all rumors an equal chance of coming true. Given that readers have shown amazing astuteness when it comes to predicting things, I am putting it all in your hands. Go ahead have your say - you answer will help me write my next post, which is about Apple and its impact on broadband infrastructure, and what it means for demand for even higher speed connections.
Written by Om Malik on September 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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Given all the attention being devoted to Web-based applications, and all the hoopla around the web-desktop hybrid apps, I got together with Niall Kennedy to record the latest episode of Om & Niall PodSesssions, to ruminate on the question: are desktop applications are really dead. We don’t think they are, mostly because the beefier desktops (and notebooks) mean that you can do a lot of cool things with the processing power at our disposal now. You can download the podcast here, and while you are waiting for the file download to finish, take this easy poll. Paul Kedrosky disagrees with Mike Rundle’s response in the comments section.
Written by Om Malik on September 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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Amazon has beaten Apple to the starting gate when it comes to movie download business, but that doesn’t ensure success. The service is getting mixed reviews. Techdirt calls it as “me too (read: not interesting) as you can get” and many believe that Apple will come-up with a winning package. Others like CinemaNow are not sitting still, and there is the looming specter of Microsoft and its Zune line of offerings. Who will be the ultimate winner? You decide.
Written by Om Malik on September 7th, 2006 with no comments.
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With 3G Services around the corner, most modern mobile phones are packed with features - cameras, music players, web browsers and video playback, to name a few. Motorola and Nokia call them mobile Internet terminals. While all this sounds nice in theory, in reality the new features complicate the user experience. Which mobile phone, do you think has the best UI and gives consumers the best experience?
Couple of points: We are not talking about the OS, but about the user interface, and user experience. Also, we cannot blame some carrier’s lack of taste (Verizon, for example) on a mobile phone maker, so please keep that in mind as well, when making your choice.
Written by Om Malik on September 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Sony snapped up Grouper. Viacom bought Atom Films, and before that iFilm. Looks like the old media giants are on the prowl and looking to gobble up online video starts. Business Week has come up with a short list, and so have we. But we want to put the question to you the readers in this poll. If you pick “other” let us know which company do you think will get snapped up next.
Written by Om Malik on August 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Now that Wired News, and Wired.com are back in the CondeNest, one can expect them to go on a rapid expansion spree. You know those eyeballs can bring in some serious dollars. So here is a quick poll for you to make your bets.
Written by Om Malik on July 12th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Om Malik on February 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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