Archive | November, 2006

27 November 2006 ~ Comments

Video Games and Pissing Contests: Business Lessons Learned From Nintendo Wii

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Although real life has made substantial demands on my free time, I have been an active video game player since the age of seven, when my parents purchased a Nintendo Entertainment System for my half-brother and me. I remember spending countless hours playing our NES-as it was more well known then-until my mother would [...]

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18 November 2006 ~ Comments

Biting the Hand That Feeds

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In an interview with Billboard Magazine, Universal Music Group (UMG) CEO Doug Morris claims portable digital music players are “repositories for stolen music and they all know it”. This, he mused, was justification for Microsoft paying royalties for the privilege to sell its Zune device. Something here just doesn’t make sense to me. [...]

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