Archive for January, 2008

Sony Library About To Launch On Amazon MP3

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

As it was announced previously, Sony’s music library is coming to Amazon MP3 soon. How soon? I would guess in the next week or less. Why so soon? See Exhibit A. Yep, that’s a Foo Fighters album that’s loaded into Amazon MP3 without any pricing or buying button on there yet. So, what seems to be happening is that Amazon is loading up all their database and then when it’s all loaded, it will all go live to buy at the same time. In the meantime all you and I can do is wait patiently and buy some Led Zepplin or Pink Floyd.

700mhz C Block Reserve Met Today

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

For those of you who have been following the 700mhz spectrum auction, you know that if the C block doesn’t meet the $4.6 billion reserve price, then it will not remain open and a new auction will begin. Luckily, the bidding has gone extremely well and it’s up to about $4.3 billion right now. The next round just started and will be done in 45 minutes…

The minimum bid for the next round is $4.86 billion, so as long as someone bids for it, it will be forced to have open access. That’s a big win for everyone. Here’s to hoping that Google or someone else makes the bid to get the C block. That has the potential to really open up the mobile industry and there is a lot of room for innovation in that space. Perhaps the Google/Apple relationship will finally bear fruit. Open iPhone + Open Google Network could be amazing.

UPDATE: In round 14, there were no new bids for the C block and the minimum bid has dropped to $4.79 billion for round 15. Also, the grand total for the 700mhz spectrum auction is over $10 billion now.

Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit on Xbox 360 and PS3

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

So, it was only a matter of time for the DBZ franchise to make its way to the next gen systems and I for one am super stoked about this. Granted, DBZ is a franchise that’s been fairly mediocre as a fighting game franchise overall, it was fun to play for a while on the PS2. Not incredible, but solid. Here’s to hoping Atari doesn’t screw this up.

[tags]Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Dragon Ball Z[/tags]