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Back in October last year I mentioned that those successful boys who created Skype had set their sites on changing the way we watch and consume TV. Well I’ve just completed my sign up to Joost and I am blown away, it’s still in Beta but holy crap it’s amazing. What is staggering is how […]

It is rare for Apple Commander in Chief Steve Jobs to comment publically on fundamantal business issues but in a post today on the Apple site he goes into considerable detail about Apple’s position on DRM.
According to Jobs Apple would drop their DRM in a ‘heartbeat’ and explains why. This is genuinally compelling stuff and […]

I think an article by Josh Bernoff with Remy Fiorentino at Forrester talking about the challenges that iTunes faces speaks volumes for the difficulty of establishing a winning business model in the music download sector.
iTunes is the clear leader but according to this article they are facing some significant challenges - here is an excerpt […]

We’ve been on a bit of a roll recently about cell phones so thought we’d drop a few thoughts about Apple’s entry into the cell hardware market. What’s more interesting to us is that we are watching the evolution of a small niche computer manufacturer into a fully fledged consumer products business.
That aside it is […]

Just over 20% of Americans 12 and older own an Apple product of some kind. This was one of the findings in a recent phone study conducted by Toronto-based Solutions Research Group for Apple. The upshot of the study is that Apple can increase its market footprint by 30% with the introduction of an iPod […]

November is going to be a great month for new tech toys, here at Wise Buddha Towers we are busy writing our Christmas lists.
Top of our request to Santa is the new iPod Shuffle which is all the incentive we need to hit the gym erm sometime in the New Year, this thing is really […]

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.