The Big Apple
Yes, Apple is where it should be (given the circumstances), and earning are tremendous, but just not in the billions for a quarter…
Correction- “Apple had net income for the quarter ending April 1 of $233 million”.
Entertainment of the Week
In the search for wholesome decent entertainment on the web, I must pass this link along and give a mild thumbs up to the concept.
Splitting the big Apple
While announcing $1.94 BILLION in earnings from this quarter, Apple also announced a 2-for-1 stock split effective June 21 for shareholders on record by May 19.
Meanwhile, Microsoft anticipates a different kind of split. 🙂
Awesome.
[update] Correction: $1.94 billion in revenues, according to an article on TheStreet.com.
Copyright Infringement Was The Case That They Gave Me
I understand that the title of this article is a Snoop Dogg reference, and that this article is about Dr. Dre, but hey. It was the best I could come up with.
Following suit (pun intended) with Metallica, Dr. Dre is suing Napster, Inc. for more of this copyright infringement BS. I am truly getting sick and tired of musicians whining like babies and hiring lawyers any time that they aren’t making as much money as they think they should be. And the worst part about all these MP3 lawsuits is that none of the people suing understand the technology. The wording of these allegations is what’s going to get Napster off the hook in court, I think. Metallica and Dr. Dre keep using the phrase “encouraged users to trade songs and recordings without the band’s permission.” This is bogus. Napster is in no way, shape, or form encouraging a god damn thing. They simply make the software available. What people do with it is their own damn problem. After all, isn’t that what’s been getting Hotline off the hook all along?
Art is free.
Let me rephrase that.
Art for the purpose of expression should be free. Art for the purpose of making money should be illegal.
Except for website design, of course.
Swooshy logos… One word taglines…. This is the new eConomy…
Is your startup .com having an eDentity crisis? Is your .com name eCool eNough? Is eYour eSlogan eDynamic eNough? Check out www.enormicom.com.
This hilarious take on the new webeconomy is brought to you by the folks at 37 Signals.
I especially like the swooshy logo section. Also check out the Professional Superhero.
Capitalist Pissing Contest, Round 1
According to this article at wired, It seems that Bill Gates is a mere 4.6 Billion Dollars richer than Larry Ellison from Oracle… though 4.6 Billion seems like alot consider the fact that Bill lost 30 Billion this week alone and that Larry made 8 Billion in one 24 hour period yesterday. With the stockmarket as nervous as it is now and the DOJ closing in on MS … I am starting to think we will be hearing more (BS) from Larry as he becomes the high supreme lord of capitalism. Here is some juice on Larry and his wonderfull attitude, quoted from that story:
“His attitude is, ‘I’ll do what I want to do, and I don’t give a s**t about you. I can buy anything and do anything — I can s**t on the floor and hire someone to clean it up.'”
[ imitating the church lady from SNL ] … Well, isn’t that special!
Now where did I leave those highly-classified US government secrets?
DOH! The FBI just realized that they are missing a laptop that happened to be chock full of “highly classified information.” What, you mean they didn’t have somebody walking around with it handcuffed to them? Like in “Spies Like Us?” Maybe it’s time to stop worrying about 128-bit encryption and start buying those tags they have at department stores that set off an alarm and spray ink on you.
Bad ass new web format
Adobe is pushing a new XML-based web graphics format (sponsored by the W3C) called SVG, or “Scalable Vector Graphics.” They claim that it can offer PDF-quality printability, as well as color management, server-independent image mapping, and improved quality, interactivity, and database connectivity all around. Basically, the idea is that the browser actually creates 2-D vector graphics on the fly based on plain text instruction. It also works with CSS for positioning and other visual elements. There is a nice article about it on WebMonkey as well.
Check out Adobe’s commitment to the new format…their beta development tool already has support for both major browsers on Mac and PC. Definitely worth keeping an eye on…
Just because you're paranoid…
WTF? Has Metallica finally turned into the pussies we knew they would become? A band that was sued in the 80’s over a teen suicide because of one of their emotional songs, Metallica is suing Napster because they “encouraged users of Napster software to trade copyrighted material without the bandÂ’s permission. ” Whatever. They’re bitching about their “art” being traded like a commodity rather than the “art that it is.” Maybe if they spent more time on their music and less time in the courthouse, they might make a decent record.