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Category Archives: Digital Media

Apple’s Announcement and the FIght In the Livingroom

This week Apple rolled out its next generation iPods including an iPod Touch with cameras to support Facetime, which you may recall is Apple’s video phone software for WiFi networks. The new iPod Nano is half the size of the old Nano and features a touchscreen and an FM radio. An upgrade to iTunes includes [...]

Posted 07 September 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Industry News § Internet § Trends ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

eBook Power Struggle

Amazon has had its hands full since the announcement of Apple’s upcoming iPad tablet computer. The iPad is expected to compete strongly against Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader. Besides the many and varied applications that will run on the iPad, it will also offer a robust iBookstore that will feature titles from popular publishers that include [...]

Posted 06 February 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Mobile Tech § e-commerce ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Introducing the iPad

After months of speculation and anticipation, Apple’s latest creation is finally unveiled. Last Wednesday, with a packed amphitheater of journalists poised on the edges of their seats, Steve Jobs and colleagues showed off Apple’s new tablet PC, the iPad. Since then bloggers and journalists have been filling pages with there impressions of the iPad ranging [...]

Posted 31 January 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Industry News § Mobile Tech § New Tech § Tech Reviews § computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Zombie Kids?

A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the average young american spends practically every waking moment, outside of school, on the computer, watching TV, playing video games, or tuned in to some other electronic device. If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online [NYTimes] Kids consume media as a full-time job—many getting overtime [...]

Posted 23 January 2010 † Ken Baldauf § Education § Social Issues ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pirates Walk Plank

The three founders of The Pirate Bay, the most popular bit torrent file-sharing site on the Internet, have been found guilty of violating copyright law by a Swedish court. The founders and their financial backer have been sentenced to a year in prison and fined $3.6 million in damages which will go to the leading [...]

Posted 20 April 2009 † Ken Baldauf § Info Security § Social Issues ‡ Comments (0) °