by Jeff Yablon | Sep 4, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Media
Yesterday, a rumor started circulating that the actor Bruce Willis was getting ready to sue Apple over the rights to his digital music collection. The rumor was short-lived; in a matter of hours his wife denied it. Having recently lost my sister and having used words...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 1, 2012
Here’s your monthly issue of Virtual VIP News . . . the monthly digest of the information we told our friends and clients about during the past month! Click Any of The Links To Read Our Spin On These Business Changing News Items from Changes, as published...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 21, 2012 | Business Process
Back in the day, most software was copy-protected. Software makers feared that people would copy and distribute what they had bought, so they put extra software in their software or even did controlled damage to the floppy disks that software used to come on to...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 6, 2011 | Business Process, Content
iTunes has a problem. Amazon and Google, probably the only two companies with enough business savvy and money to challenge Apple’s music-selling monstrosity, are in. For real. And while (in spite of cute tricks like their Lady Gaga 99 cent album debacle)...
by Jeff Yablon | Jul 31, 2009 | Media
Last week I commented on the debacle that Amazon.com created by reaching into Kindle devices and deleting George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. Read that story again, here, and check out the update in comments. Bad as that was, and Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos...