Posted by kdawson (75% noise) View Skip David Gerard writes “The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual installments. Iceland’s economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses hav...

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Horseshit Hirst and the Remix Generation On a list group thingy I’m on another writer posted a link to this article on how there ain’t no such thing as original content creation, wherein the writer takes issue with the idea they find aticulated in this review, the misguided notion “that allowi...

At its recent MacWorld conference, Apple made three key changes to its iTunes music services offering: DRM free distribution, wireless downloads and variable pricing. A year ago, iTunes looked like a business under pressure. But these changes make the mobile operators’ and Nokia’s “...

Following are the remarks of MCEA President Bonnie Cullison at the union's legislative breakfast this past Saturday. In attendance was the vast majority of Montgomery's statehouse delegation. Note the union's positions on the state school aid miscalculation, GCEI and teacher pensions. Montgomery Cou...

In mid 2008, amid growing evidence, NVIDIA acknowledged that a significant number of its previous-generation GPUs (graphics processing unit) and MCPs (media and communications processors) for notebooks are failing at higher-than-normal rates. For readers who are not aware of this story, TheAppleBlog...

" According to a new study, of the 13m songs available for sale on the internet last year, more than 10m failed to find a single buyer.   The research, conducted by the MCPS-PRS's Will Page and Andrew Bud, brings us that much closer to proving Sturgeon's Law – that 90% of everyt...

Today I “met” someone via Twitter. Dallas W.Taylor. The Dallas Taylor, as in “Crosby Stills Nash and Young Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves“. The Dallas Taylor who played drums on that album shown above (Deja Vu),  on the first album Crosby Stills and Nash, on the first Stephen...

Last week the fifth Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm continued its theme of business model innovation at the intersection of telecoms, media and technology by welcoming back Will Page, Chief Economist at the MCPS PRS Alliance, a copyright collection society that represents over 50,000 songwriters and ...

An Interview With Kerchoonz Co-founder And Scotland-based, Singer-songwriter Indiana Gregg (part 1 Of 2) Imagine working for years developing your music career. You've released several albums, signed with an indie label, inked licensing deals, and received love from the press and radio, all while yo...