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Here at Wise Buddha Towers we are long time supporters of Skype. We like making free phone calls and since all calls to cell phones and land lines are free in the US and Canada until the end of the year there really is no excuse not to be an evangelist.
Skype is supporting a wide […]

More from Banksy, this time he takes on Disneyland by placing a statue of a Guantanemo detainee in a theme park ride. Apparently it went unnoticed for several hours!

Kids only want to buy sneakers if they are super-expensive and exclusive, and top sportsmen can’t be blamed for endorsing top-priced goods…right?
This conventional wisdom is being turned on its head by New York Knicks’ Stephon Marbury. Kobe, Lebron and Michael Jordan have all put their name to $150 Nike shoes, but Marbury has made it […]

Paris Hilton is a product of our times, famous for being famous and now trying to sell overly produced CD’s to unsuspecting wannabe teens. It is therefore gratifying to see that guerilla artist Banksy who is truly a product of our times has done us all a favour. He has toured retailers inserting his own […]

Like us you’ve probably got thousands of music files in various file formats spread across several machines. Here at Wise Buddha, as the name implies, we exist in a state of permanent inner peace derived largely from backing up all our music in one place (a 160 GB external Maxtor hard drive is our weapon […]

Some pics from the US of the new Zune player, not sure that Apple has too much to worry about in the looks department but the specs look interesting. More here.

Interesting announcement from EMI that the new Microsoft Zune player will come preloaded with music video content. The reason it’s interesting is that it seems to confirm that the new player will play music and video. Read about it here.

Here at Wise Buddha Towers we really rate TechCrunch as our blog of choice for web 2.0 stuff. Well those fine people have launched a new blog for technofiles or just the curious check out CrunchGear.
If they are as switched on about gadgets as they are about web 2.o it should be good.

The rise and rise of YouTube
YouTube has established itself at the top of the league of the new generation of community websites by becoming even more popular than MySpace.According to internet analysis company Alexa the video sharing site has taken a 3.9% share of global internet visits a day compared with 3.35% for MySpace.
YouTube’s popularity […]

As previoulsy posted it seems the music downloading space has undergone a mini seizmic change in the last few days which suggests a move toward the sale of DRM-free music by the big labels. About frickin’ time!
In our opinion as stated numerous times before this progression is ineveitable and I think we have seen potentially […]