July 2007
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Nerd's the Word
On Friday, another journalist and I chatted about the geek speak from Microsoft’s financial analyst conference, the previous day. He remarked how during their speeches, Microsoft executives “spoke a different language”—that the way they spoke was really tough to follow. But during hallway breaks and over lunch they spoke more like “normal” people.
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Kiss My DRM
I’ve been laughing at Universal Music’s refusal to sign another long-term contract with Apple. Universal demonstrates the same thick-as-a-brick mentally that has made music labels perhaps the most loathed organizations on the planet. It’s one hell of a contradiction: The folks selling beloved music are hated by their tune-loving customers.
Apple has done for record labels two...
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Don't Touch!
I love this photo, taken about an hour before Apple stared selling iPhone on Friday. Employees pulled paper covers from inside the windows and set a 60-minute countdown clock. Here, an employee reaches to turn off an iPhone. I shot the picture through the store’s Plexiglas.
I attended the iPhone launch at the Montgomery Mall Apple Store in Bethesda, Md. I covered the event for eWEEK.
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