I’ve been away for the last couple of weeks and only picking up on tech news a bit on the side, but as I start catching up on all the editorials and such, I’m starting to realize that Apple’s 9-9-09 “It’s Only Rock and Roll But I Like It” event turned out to be underwhelming, [...]

We knew it was coming. Yesterday was the big day as iTunes finally went DRM-free and initiated tiered pricing, meaning some songs will be cheaper than the classic 99-cent price point (good luck finding those!), but the most popular songs will now be $1.29. It should be noted that I’ve heard that some songs for [...]

For those of you keeping up on the death of newspapers and magazines, check out the Twitter feed for themediaisdying. Ultimately, it’s just some guy aggregating news stories, so you’re gonna get gems like “Ann Arbour News will print last issue amd cease publushing (sometime) in July.” (sp!) But he does a better job of [...]

Sony is teaming with Google to make the half-a-million books in Google Books available on Sony Reader for free. Even as Amazon stifles attempts to put non-Amazon books on the Kindle.
Meanwhile, Fujitsu is rolling out a beautiful color ebook reader with a stupid name (the FLEPia). It’s a thousand bucks. Let me tell you, my [...]