The Soap Box

Here we are, coming up on another Wednesday and another weekly newsletter.

Apple has been making more buzz lately with their intentions to make a new line of video playing iPods. Sorry Apple, but I think I'll pass on this one. Unless those tiny little screens get a little bigger, they'll be even more difficult to see than portable DVD players. Still, this raises a lot of concern over at Microsoft, who is trying to sell movie companies on its newest DRM package. Naturally, Steve Jobs has thrown an obstacle down, since Apple seems to avoid supporting any Microsoft DRM to this point. Maybe movie companies will give the boot to Microsoft, or maybe they'll say goodbye to iPods.

Down at the bottom of the page is our new Weird and Cool section. We have a few neat features we picked up, including monitors that display two screens simultaneously. Also, there's an OLED keyboard and the prospect of some new 3D CPUs.

Thanks for joining us again,
Mike

Technology News

Apple eyes new iPods for music videos If you squint really hard, you can watch music videos everywhere you go.

TiVo upgrade allows instant response to TV ads Instead of just skipping ads, Tivo plans to make commercials more flashy.

IBM's OS/2 Reaches the End of the Road After years of competing with Windows, IBM gives up.

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