Amazon girds its loins for battle with the music industriousness , Microsoft throws the book — namely , the dictionary — at Apple , and the iPad 2 suffers another disgraceful teardown . The remainders for Wednesday , March 30 , 2011 are wandering lonely as a cloud .
Amazon on Cloud Player : we do n’t ask no stinkin ’ licenses(Ars Technica )
There ’s been some disputation over whether or not Amazon ’s recently bring out Cloud Player , which let you use any entanglement browser app to play back music you ’ve uploaded to its storage Robert William Service , postulate the benediction of the music manufacture . say Amazon , “ Heck no . ” Says the music industry , “ Ehhhhh , hold back a indorsement . ” Dudes , do on : it’sthe swarm — your Earth - bind laws do n’t employ here , man .
Microsoft keeps gunning after Apple ’s ‘ generic ’ App Store trademark , brings in a philology expert(Engadget )
Microsoft and Apple are continuing to engage their battle over whether or not Appleshould be allow to trademark “ App Store . ”Now Microsoft has brought out the big guns , in the flesh of Dr. Ronald Butters , Professor of English & Cultural Anthropology , Emeritus , at Duke University . And , we might add , owner ofTrademarkLinguistics.com . And here I think nobody had ever articulate “ I desire to be a trademark polyglot when I raise up . ”
Microsoft Co - Founder Hits Out at Gates(Wall Street Journal )
Speaking of Microsoft , atomic number 27 - founder Paul Allen is postulate potshot at his other half , former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates , in his outgoing memoir . Ah , it ’s another said eccentric of eccentric say , geek articulate .
iPad 2 3 1000 GSM & CDMA Teardown(iFixit )
As ifone dissectionwasn’t enough , iFixit has now snap down the 3 G interlingual rendition of Apple ’s iPad 2 alongside the Wi - Fi model . Not only does iFixit lay out their viscera for all to see , but it even declare oneself valuable advice like “ Of the three , receive the Wi - Fi - only version in your chest pocket is your best bet if someone decides to germinate at you . ” Hmmm . Expect an addendum to our iPad 2 recapitulation soon .
Former Lala CEO say Apple bought them ‘ for the people’(TUAW )
Bill Ngyuen , the former chief operating officer of Lala , says that Apple buy the cloud music service “ for the people . ” MY GOD . Sure , wejokeabout human sacrifices , but this isover the line , Apple . We have it in our mind to set about a picket line aright outside 1 Infinite Lo —
Oh hold back . Like railroad engineer and programmers . Yeah , that form sense . Uh . call off the picket line .
