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Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living The phenomenal success of the iPod has expanded the cult of Mac computing into a mass-market industry of cool. And then it will just become an Industry of Cool. The reality is that the record business knows all about building an industry of cool...

16 September 2006, 7:00

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada is a massive industry event at which the world's consumer electronics and personal technology companies show off their new gear, but will we see anything really new there?

4 January 2006, 11:43

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living Prince's battles to retain control of his music are the stuff of industry legend at this point. If the music industry can't figure out a way to sell music that plays on anything, maybe bands need to take matters into their own hands -- the same...

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 14:48

What do bloggers want?

Digital Living Before chronicling the historic rise of Google via his own Web site and book, he rode out the last boom as publisher of the Industry Standard, a business magazine and Web site chronicling the evolution of the business side of the Web, which became...

15 July 2006, 8:00

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living It was the arrogance of a Vulcan alpha geek peering into a less sophisticated industry and saying, "Most illogical. Page suggested that the consumer electronics industry could learn something from the computer industry when it came to open...

11 January 2006, 15:45

What's the deal with 1080p TVs?

Digital Living I work in the games industry, and I need to buy an LCD TV set that will be compatible with 1080p. The PlayStation 3, which we assume is what you need the 1080p TV for, isn't out until November and the electronics industry is still preparing itself.

8 June 2006, 16:16

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living As CNET News.com's John Borland brilliantly pointed out, Microsoft has offered one solution to this industry-wide problem since the year 2000: the Secure Audio Path (SAP), which adds noise to audio as it's played back by music software.

9 May 2005, 14:48

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living Large-scale piracy by 'average' consumers told the music industry in no uncertain terms that people were ready to acquire music online -- legally or otherwise. About ten years ago, a guy named Jürgen Zeller sent out an email to the rest of the team...

17 August 2005, 14:30

Lost on the Underground with my PVR

Digital Living Many industry insiders (and Steve Jobs) will tell you that most people don't want to watch TV in public, that the number of people who are prepared to pay £500 or £600 for the privilege is limited, and that portable video recorders and players are...

26 September 2005, 9:38

Wi-Fi is the answer to a home without wires

Digital Living However, this would upset consumers, so the computer industry has created all this hoo-hah about the Dynamic Host Computer Protocol and WEP security, along with fiendishly confusing configuration software, in order to ensure our world isn't rocked...

4 March 2006, 7:00

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living Until the music industry gets rid of DRM, as music fans and most musicians want, you'll probably be better off buying the MP3 player you like the most, buying your music on CD and ripping it yourself, avoiding the whole DRM question altogether.

2 May 2007, 16:12

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Why it lostLike Betamax before it, MiniDisc is another proprietary Sony product, which meant that it didn't have widespread industry support and only a few manufacturers ever made hardware. Our fantasy outcomeTo win the format war for Betamax...

23 July 2007, 9:49

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living It's too late for them, and DVD is simply too well established, but with the help of the technology industry, we may be able to bring a little peace, a little comfort, to the families dealing with this terrible condition.

24 April 2006, 11:09

Is now the right time to buy a new TV?

Digital Living If you can hold off, industry forecasts suggest that by 2007, you'll be able to buy a big-name LCD TV for only 50 percent more than an equivalent size CRT. I've finally decided to upgrade my crusty old television.

25 May 2005, 11:00