Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Doug Morris And MySpace

Which way do you want it Doug? Do you want to make a deal with the service, forming a label, to skim the cream and make a fortune selling discs? Or do you want to prove once again you’re completely out of touch, suing a company LONG AFTER everybody using it knows it’s a haven […]

iPod Shuffle

While the PC-impressed press is fawning over Microsoft’s second-rate late to the gate Zune, the iPod Shuffle is tearing up the marketplace. Yes, whilst reports state that Zunes are sitting on shelves across America, retailers CAN’T KEEP THE SHUFFLE IN STOCK! $79. It’s all about price and perception. You might be under the illusion that […]

More Zune

You never succeed playing catch-up ball. In the late nineties AOL looked unstoppable, adding millions of subscribers at twenty bucks per month.  Never mind that techies railed against the service, its incompatible e-mail system, its closed network.  The public was stupid.  And you could never lose money serving that stupidity. So demonstrating even a greater […]

Doug Morris And Zune

Who’s the pirate here?  Is it the public acquiring music in new ways that Universal won’t monetize or is it this ancient man running around behind the scenes trying to hold up technologists for cash? If your future model is based on being paid by the HARDWARE manufacturer, then why don’t food companies get a […]