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iPhone 4S creates Sprint’s best sales day ever
Sprint has had its best day of sales ever thanks to the iPhone 4S. Sprint announced record sales at retail, the web and over the phone. The iPhone 4S was put on sale today and customers have been snatching up the phone like crazy. This isn’t really a surprise given the record-breaking pre-orders.
Palm Pre breaks Sprint sales records, sells an estimated 50,000
It seems that at least the executives from Sprint Nextel have deemed the Palm Pre a success. According to some estimates, the Palm Pre sold anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 units in the first two days. Of course, these numbers are just estimates, and to break that down a little bit more, JP Morgan has more »
Best Buy launches vinyl record pilot program in 100 stores
Vinyl records have begun to make a slight resurgence, or at least enough of one to warrant a little shelf space in Best Buy. It turns out that while CD sales have dropped about 20-percent in the last few years, vinyl sales have only increased. According to the numbers, vinyl record sales increased 15-percent in more »
Amazing: World’s largest or greatest or first something or others
We live in a strange world. While there’s an enormous economic crisis, companies still have to get us to notice their products. Technological toys must be purchased! Let’s take a look at a great big cell phone and a Blu-ray player combo. You think getting a small cell phone is a good idea? Maybe you think a Palm Pre or an iPhone is the way to go. You crazy fool.
Just Announced: LiquidTV-TiVo for your PC
Think of how many people have become very used to the ease of having TiVo. And now, it’s going to be available for your computer as well. Nero and TiVo are working together to launch LiquidTV, which basically is TiVo, just for a computer.
You’ll still get many of the same basic functions you know and love on regular TiVo. You can watch live or recorded TV. You are able to burn videos to DVD if your PC has a DVD burner. As long as your LiquidTV is networked with other TiVo boxes you have in your house, it even plays nice with those.
SanDisk to release new microSD “slotMusic” card
Well, apparently SanDisk feels Joe Public likes their music hands on. This thinking may well be what led to their new line of music-filled microSD cards. They managed to pull in all the big record labels like Sony BMG, EMI, Universal and Warner. Although, I’m not sure what the labels were thinking with this one. The songs on the 1 GB cards will be DRM-free MP3s that are encoded at 320 kbps for the record.
The first stores they have in on the deal are Wal-Mart or Best Buy. So, you simply stroll into one of those two stores, nab your rockin’, grooving, bopping-loaded slotMusic, and pop it into your phone, and voila…you’re set. However, if you are one of the millions who would simply rather get your music by downloading it, then this little slotMusic thing is pretty useless.
Nine Inch Nails release even more free, DRM-free music downloads
Just as quickly as we learn that any new Radiohead tracks will soon require your wallet, Nine Inch Nails opens up with two free singles and then a complete album, all for free. Following up on the success of Ghosts, Trent Reznor and his crew offered up both Discipline and Echoplex as singles, both of more »
Get out your wallets, no more free Radiohead
For the majority of you who paid nothing for Radiohead’s most recent album, In Rainbows, you may be sad to learn that the UK based band has no future plans to offer any similar promotion in the future. Lead singer, Thom Yorke, called the revolutionary experiment a “one-off” thing. “It was one of those things more »
Practical uses for CD’s in the digital age
As a man of twenty five I am comfortable saying that the most challenging, and truly self discovering journey of my life was the transference from CD to digital music. A process that took months of short activity spurts and endless accumulated hours of musical rediscovery from the very depths of my musical collection (talking about Morris Day & Time, and Hanson in one sitting). In the end, like Highlander, “there could be only one” device that is. My trusty iPod, filled with every song I have ever loved up until next new release Tuesday. All in all I tore through 572 CD’s, all colorful and slick, some with scratches, others with little dots indicating that they were not long for this world.















