Monthly Archives: December 2006

iPod Vending Machines?

By Michael Becker | Published: December 31, 2006
Michael Calore at Wired.com and the Atlanta Journal Constitution are report­ing on a new trend in major air­ports: multi-purpose vend­ing machines. The biggest news is, of course, the iPods that trav­el­ers in Atlanta can buy at a high-tech vend­ing machine in Concourse A. Zoom, the com­pany that owns the machine, says the machine sold $55,000 worth [...]
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Poetic Justice

By Michael Becker | Published: December 31, 2006
Remember when Microsoft was sued over its Internet Explorer “monop­oly”? Now Apple is fac­ing a sim­i­lar law­suit regard­ing the iPod and iTunes, Apple’s online music/media store. The plain­tiff alleges that Apple has unfairly chained the iPod to the iTunes store and not opened the media player to other online stores’ prod­ucts. The same is true [...]
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“…as it should be.”

By Michael Becker | Published: December 29, 2006
Sorry for the lack of updates, but the hol­i­day sea­son, com­bined with win­ter break, has kept me away from the computer. AOL is run­ning a com­mer­cial on tele­vi­sion boast­ing the capa­bil­i­ties of the “new” AOL. We see a woman’s face as if look­ing through the com­puter mon­i­tor back at her. As a fil­ter between us and [...]
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Vocabularies

By Michael Becker | Published: December 19, 2006
How impor­tant is the size of your vocab­u­lary? To many, it is the chief indi­ca­tor of your intel­li­gence and your social stand­ing. Use the word “ain’t” or swear casu­ally and you might be thought of as lower class and une­d­u­cated. Fill your con­ver­sa­tions with buzz words and dropped names and peo­ple may think you a [...]
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Receiving

By Michael Becker | Published: December 19, 2006
I just received my new copy of The Onyx Project inter­ac­tive DVD movie. I’ll fol­low with my thoughts in a few days.
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