Archive for: October 2, 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
opposite to what LG coerced us into believing at CEDIA, its Netflix / Blu-ray-lovin’ BD300 will actually be sold a full $50 cheaper than the previously quoted $399.95. Circuit City has the deck up for pre-order right that very moment for $349.99 (okay, so perhap…

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Homebrew developer ZodTTD has finally released version 2.0.0 of his long-awaited Sega Genesis and Sega CD emulator, genesis4iphone. that version works with iPhones and iPod Touches running on firmware 2.x.x.This release comes with the same skin as ZodTTD’s earlier release, mame4iphone, but the good …

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Filed under: Ask Engadget, Portable AudioIt’s true — hunting down a waterproof MP3 player is a cinch, but finding a decent pair of waterproof headphones to accompany said player can prove challenging. Have a look at Melinda’s question, and after you’re done providing your best advice, send by an in…

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Filed under: Digital Cameras
Man, the DSLR rumor mill never stops, does it? that moment we’re being treated to some leaked Japanese Nikon ads, which feature a shadowy DSLR body that’s somewhat different than the D700 and D3 and the word “big” in Japanese. Of course, it could be totally fake, but we’…

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Filed under: CellphonesSteve Ballmer’s whirlwind UK media tour ahead of the Professional Developers Conference just keeps giving us sound bite gems: first it was Windows Cloud, soon after Zune on Windows Mobile, and now Stevie’s taking shots at Android and the G1. Calling Microsoft David to Google’s…

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Filed under: Handhelds
Sony’s plan to launch an updated Reader nowadays wasn’t exactly a secret, but there are still some surprises to the new PRS-700 — particularly the new six-inch touchscreen E-Ink display. Page turning is now accomplished by a swipe motion with faster refreshes, and there’s a s…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Every so often, Nokia will pop out a brick-like beast of a clamshell smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard — a black sheep in Espoo’s lineup in every sense of the word. These so-called Communicators even had their own custom Symbian-based operating system, Series…

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Filed under: Displays
It’s been nearly a full year since Samsung first announced its plans for a 3-inch WVGA OLED panel, but it’s now finally delivered, and found a partner in the profile of KDDI, which was showing off the panel at CEATEC. As Tech-On notes, the panel is fairly the upgrade by Samsung…

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Filed under: Laptops
When every company out there is cranking out the same 10-inch 1.6GHz Atom netbook, there aren’t many ways to assemble your product stand out: the obvious trick is to go low on price, but ASUS isn’t messing with its profit margins. Instead, it’s apparently going negative in the m…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
In what can only be described as the fastest and most exhilarating one minute, twenty-two seconds of our lives, RIM and Vodafone have thrown together a promotional video for the upcoming Storm that touches on most of the handset’s high points: mobile music, GPS, de…

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Nokia introduced its first big touchscreen phone in London Thursday: the 5800 XpressMusic, previously known as the “Tube.” While Nokia isn’t positioning the phone outright as an iPhone killer, it certainly shares some similarities of the popular Apple device — and one that really jabs at Ap…

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Fear not, iTunes fans. Rumors about the death of iTunes were a tad premature.

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruled Thursday that the royalty rate for permanent downloads, like those found via Apple's iTunes, will remain at 9.1 cents per download.

The CRB also ruled that rates for physical CDs will be 9.1 cents while sellers of ringtones will be charged 24 cents per selection.

For each 99-cent song sold on iTunes, Apple hands over about 70 cents to the record companies. Those companies must give 9.1 cents, or a mechanical royalty rate, to songwriters, composers, and publishers.

"We're pleased with the CRB's decision to keep royalty rates stable," Apple said in a Thursday statement.

The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), which represents those songwriters and music publishers, was pushing for a rate closer to 15 cents per song "because the costs involved [with digital downloads] are much less than for physical products," NMPA president and CEO David Israelite wrote on the group's Web site.

Apple was fiercely opposed to this proposal, and threatened to shut down its iTunes store if the CRB approved a royalty rate the company deemed financially ruinous.

"An excessive royalty rate would stifle any effective competition with piracy or the physical retailers, as we would either be forced to raise prices, limit further investment in present and future services or even simply drop out of the market," Eddy Cue, vice president of iTunes, said in written testimony submitted last year to the CRB. "Any increase in the royalty rates we pay for musical works would have a significant adverse impact on the commercial viability of iTunes."

If anything, the CRB should lower the rates, ...