In 2007, Radiohead sent a shock-wave around the music industry when it released its album In Rainbows online, letting the purchaser set the price they wanted to pay for it. Some hailed it as the future of music distribution, others thought it would be a total failure. In reality, it wasn’t really either. While the album found huge success (it was also released in the traditional way later), Radiohead waffled on the idea of using such a distribution method in the future. But today they’re back online with a new single.
“Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” is available today on the band’s website. But there’s a difference between it and In Rainbows — it has a set price. £1.00 (or roughly 1.50€) gets you the single in high-quality MP3 format. But don’t mistake this for Radiohead completely abandoning some of its online experimentation ideas, this single has a price primarily because its proceeds are going to the Royal British Legion.
Microsoft’s newest version of its operating system, Windows 7, is finally in the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, so the OS will soon be preloaded on new computers. Though not officially released yet, Windows 7 is expected to be a hit. For instance, after just eight hours on Amazon UK, Windows 7 pre-orders outpaced the total number of pre-orders for Vista over a period of 17 weeks.
“Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.”
That was Apple COO Tim Cook two days ago during Apple’s quarterly earnings call. Sure, it may sound like spin from an executive who doesn’t have a better answer as to why Apple isn’t competing in the low-end of the market, and thus, gaining market share. But it’s not.
You need look no further than numbers released today by NPD to understand Apple’s strategy. Its revenue share of the “premium” price market — that is, computers over $1,000 — is a staggering 91%. This means that 9 out of every 10 retail dollars that is spent on PCs in that price range, goes to Apple, as Betanews’ Joe Wilcox points out. That, for lack of a better word, is insane.
Analysts and journalists are often quick to point out Apple’s relatively low overall market share (less than 10%). But that completely misses the point of Apple’s Mac business. If Apple wanted to make a range of low-end computers, it absolutely could. And such machines would sell like crazy, boosting Apple’s market share. But there would have to be some trade-off in quality, and perhaps more importantly to Apple, to its high margins. And as it has proven time and time again, it has no desire to give up either.
Asus will never stop innovating ! This netbook, announced for the end of July, is equiped with a convertible touchscreen, you can fold the screen down over the keyboard and use the netbook as a tablet. With less than 1 kilo, the netbook is anyway full of great features with a good balanced hardware. It has an Intel Atom @ 1,33 Ghz processor with 1GB of DDR2 memory. With his 16 GB disk drive, you can store a lot of data, and even more as Asus offers 20 GB of online storage. It has a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, also coming with a webcam, Wifi and a RJ45 port. It's coming with Windows XP and Asus softwares optimized for touchscreens.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook's Chief Executing Officer, announced yesterday that the famous social network is now counting 250 million of users, and growing ! In January 2009, they had 150 million users.
The rapid pace of Facebook's growth is kind scary, to increase by 50 million users in 3 months is just awesome. How many time untill they reach the cap of one Milliard ? Before Twitter ? There's a growing evolution map of Facebook :
As you'll see, all the posts below are written in French. I'm sorry about that. The fact is, I used to own a French blog talking about ICT and I took all the posts over to feed this website a little bit. But I promise, all the future posts will be written in English so they will be understandable by everyone world wide ! :-)
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Mots clés Google 2008 : le best of
Posted in General
on Wednesday, 24 December 2008 05:57
A l'occasion de chaque fin d'année, le géant américain Google publie sur le web le best of des mots clés tapés dans son moteur de recherche. Il est intéressant d'observer, au niveau de la progression (pas du classement global) sur la recherche tous pays confondus, que ce sont principalement des faits d'actualité qui génèrent des recherches (les élections US notamment) :
sarah palin
beijing 2008
facebook login
tuenti
heath ledger
obama
nasza klasa
wer kennt wen
euro 2008
jonas brothers
Chez nous en Belgique, on observe surtout une ascension pour le divertissement et tous les sites Web 2.0 de plus en plus fréquentés :
youtube
netlog
facebook
hotmail
video
jeux
google
ebay
msn
tv
De quoi donner de l'inspiration à tous ceux qui souhaitent lancer un site web à fort traffic en 2009 !
Une clé USB pour le moins originale est offerte aux généticiens attendus aux conférences de l'American Society For Reproductive Medicine’s. Rien de technologiquement excitant (pardon ! :) ) mais cette clé USB m'a bien fait sourire !
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E-Ball - un ordinateur vraiment mini
Posted in Hardware
on Monday, 22 December 2008 04:40
Il s'agirait là du plus petit PC du monde, conçu par le designer Apostol Tnokovski qui a réalisé en l'E-BALL un véritable ordinateur très design et très petit.
Ce concept est équipé d'un processeur dual core, d'un mini disque dur de 250 à 500 Go, 2 Go de RAM, une carte graphique, une carte son et deux haut parleur de 50 Watt, un graveur de DVD HD, une souris optique rattachée à la sphère, un clavier laser, un connecteur ethernet, une webcam, une batterie et un projecteur LCD. Étonnant n'est ce pas ?
Autant de technologie en aussi peu de place, voilà qui laisse rêveur !
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Microsoft’s newest version of its operating system, Windows 7, 
“Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.”
Asus will never stop innovating ! This netbook, announced for the end of July, is equiped with a convertible touchscreen, you can fold the screen down over the keyboard and use the netbook as a tablet.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook's Chief Executing Officer, announced yesterday that the famous social network is now counting 250 million of users, and growing ! In January 2009, they had 150 million users.
As you'll see, all the posts below are written in French. I'm sorry about that. The fact is, I used to own a French blog talking about ICT and I took all the posts over to feed this website a little bit. But I promise, all the future posts will be written in English so they will be understandable by everyone world wide ! :-)
Une clé USB pour le moins originale est offerte aux généticiens attendus aux conférences de l'American Society For Reproductive Medicine’s. Rien de technologiquement excitant (pardon ! :) ) mais cette clé USB m'a bien fait sourire !
