SanDisk have somehow managed to convince top labels, including Universal, Sony BGM, Warner and EMI, to distribute new albums on their new slotMusic platform… Albums on 1GB microSD cards. You know, those tiny little memory cards which you accidentally swallow if your not careful? Yup, them!
Each album will cost $7-10. This is surprising considering a 1GB microSD card costs $8.50, and the albums will come a USB adapter.
slotMusic albums will be available in Walmart and Best Buy in USA soon.
With Sony’s new Sony Video Store launched, it has arisen as to just how strict the DRM on the videos are. Basically, if you delete a video off your hard drive to free up space, you should be able to redownload the video again no problem. However, Sony doesn’t see it that way. You have to call up Sony customer care in order to authorize a once off re-download.
What’s worse is, if you decide to swap out the hard drives, and back them up somewhere else, and then put them back on when you need them, you’re likely to encounter more problems. According to the terms & conditions of the download service, this may corrupt the data.
If you perform any of the following operations after backing up, copyright-protected video files in the backup data may not restore correctly.
So, I’ve had time now to mess about with Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser based on WebKit, and I have to say I’m quite impressed. Google have addressed most ends of what people really want from their browser, but have also missed out on a few important features.
Google have unvieled that they are working on a new web browser based on WebKit. The first images appeared yesterday, when Google sent out cartoons (yes, cartoons) to promote the new browser.
The new browser, called Google Chrome, is built on WebKit, which came as a shock to many as Google have such a tight relationship with Mozilla, and have invested large amounts of money into their Firefox browser. Google have decided however, not to use an open source JavaScript engine, but instead built their own from the ground up, dubbed V8.
