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Xbox Live should not be advertising cosmetics
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| If I cancel my paid subscription to Xbox
| Live this week (which, let's be honest, is
| a empty threat at best), it's in protest to
| what I'm about to have an almighty hissy
| fit about.
|
| Here's the vexation: When I switch on my
| Xbox, I do not expect to have smutty
| advertisements for body spray thrust in my
| face. I don't really expect any ads -- I
| already pay for the service, after all. But
| if you must promote something, promote some
| DLC for a game you know I regularly play,
| perhaps.
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-02/09/xbox-live-should-not-be-advertising-cosmetics.aspx
iPad Vs HP, Google, Dell, Camangi Slates
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| Interestingly, the iPad will not be
| challenged from Microsoft but from the
| sleeping-giant Gnu-Linux. Here is a
| comparison with some of the to-be-released
| Gnu-Linux powered tablets.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/670/ipad-vs-hp-google-dell-camangi-slates
Hold On Apple, Amazon Brings Kindle Flood
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| Most blogs and reports are putting the iPad
| in direct competition with Amazon's Kindle.
| Some even say that the iPad will kill
| Kindle; it seems Muktware* (Gnu-Linux)
| powered Kindle is hard to kill.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/683/hold-apple-amazon-brings-kindle-flood
Education and the iPadâs architecture of control
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| Also alarming is how susceptible a closed
| platform like the iPad could be to
| exploitation by service and content
| providers. A closed platform makes it very
| simple to enforce rigid controls on what
| kind of content is made available to
| students. Just think of the AT&T
| strangehold on iPhone service, and scale
| that up to textbooks in an entire school
| district. This monopolistic control is
| annoying for well-funded, sophisticated
| consumers of technology. It is disastrous
| for the poor, and catastrophic for the
| developing world. Delivering 100 free iPads
| to a village in West Africa or a struggling
| school district in Mississippi isn't
| charity, it's a set of handcuffs.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/2/education-and-ipad%E2%80%99s-architecture-control
How the iPad Could Drive Up College Tuition
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| That is, costs won't come down unless
| universities act boldly to replace the
| expensive texts and butts-in-seats
| classroom models with mobile, wireless,
| open-source education.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/anya-kamenetz/green-day/how-ipad-could-drive-college-tuition
The iPad is DRM doom, says DRM doom group
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| That said, I donât like DRM, but I dislike
| the Free Software Foundation (FSF, the
| actual people behind this âprotestâ) even
| less. Whereas the area of software patents
| needs urgent reform and the concept of fair
| use needs to be defined and codified, these
| folks want all software to be âfree,â a
| slippery concept that they describe as
| âfree as in free speech, not as in free
| beer.â
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http://mac.blorge.com/2010/02/09/the-ipad-is-drm-doom-says-drm-doom-group/
Apple iPad is no good for business (says Windows Tablet manufacturer)
http://www.daniweb.com/news/story259354.html
Recent:
O'Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales
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| It's been 18 months since O'Reilly, the
| world's largest publisher of tech books,
| stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the
| intervening time, O'Reilly's ebook sales
| have increased by 104 percent. Now, when you
| talk about ebooks and DRM, there's always
| someone who'll say, "But what about
| [textbooks|technical books|RPG manuals]?
| Their target audience is so wired and
| online, why wouldn't they just copy the
| books without paying? They've all got the
| technical know-how."
|
| So much for that theory.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/oreilly-drops-ebook.html
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