Archive for September, 2006

Pramati’s SPAM-Like Marketing Efforts

Monday, September 4th, 2006

About three years ago, I signed up to download a demo of some product from a company called Pramati. I believe the product was Pramati Studio, but it doesn’t matter, as the product wasn’t for me at the time. Just today, I get an email with a subject line of: Welcome to the “Marketing” mailing [...]

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Is the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle reminiscent of DCC vs. MiniDisc?

Friday, September 1st, 2006

I was reading this article on Reuters over the weekend and I couldn’t help but be reminded of the DCC vs. MiniDisc show down in the early 90’s. Ten years after the first CD was produced, Sony and Phillips decided that it was time for a new format. Phillips introduced DCC, or Digital Compact Cassette, [...]

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