Blu-ray buzzkill: the death-spiral
Will consumers upgrade to Blu-ray? The CEO & co-founder of fast growing Netflix believes mailed DVDs shall be replaced by web-sent movies. And a recent Harris Poll finds that people today are less likely to buy a Blu-ray player than they were last year.
Google's digital-book future hangs in the balance
Google, the company best equipped and most motivated to digitize the world's books, wants to offer the world an online Library of Alexandria. The decisions of the Justice Department, authors, book publishers, a federal judge, and Google itself likely will determine whether the company actually does.
Study: Netbook Buyers Clueless About Netbooks
According to a study by the NPD Group, 60-percent of consumers who purchased a netbook believed that their machines are the same as notebooks.
FriendFeed introduces file sharing
Sharing pictures on FriendFeed is nothing new, but now it's just as easy to share other file types on the popular social network.
Three approaches to free encrypted online storage
SpiderOak gives you up to 2GB of secure online storage for free but requires that you download a big client program, though you can access your data via a browser. The free storage offered by CryptoHeaven and SwissDisk top out at 50MB, but both of these services have more to offer, and SwissDisk doesn't even require a client download.
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