It was funny to Malaysians how out of touch our IT minister was and how far the ruling party was willing to go to put a stop to the use of tech that had mobilized the opposition movement and given voice to dissent.

In response the Twitterverse lit up with #yorais posts, making potent satire out of pure idiocy. Gotta love it!

It’s died down a bit but check out what’s been posted target=”_blank”. I’m proud to be Malaysian!

My Favourite #yorais tweet:
RT @mikeyvoon: #yorais is so out of touch. He wants to ban ALAMAK! He thinks it’s Western for Mother of God.

Canon and Vimeo are attempting a video-equivalent of a Twitter novel. What probably excites me most is the fact that these short films – or at least the first one by Vincent Laforet – will be shot on Canon SLRs, in HD.

The renting of professional HD equipment was always one of the biggest expenses we had on student projects. Almost everything else was provided, but if you wanted to experiment with the HD format, you needed to find a camera with lenses and trimmings that you could afford to rent.

Now you have people shooting professional-grade short films on Digital SLRs, with bodies and kits that are a fraction of the price of their dedicated-video counterparts. The kids can now play with the big boys and actually get to grips with post-production in HD.

If you work in media production, broadcasting or filmmaking that experience is sorely needed and these past few years have seen a gap form between what the schools and colleges are equipped to impart and what the industry demands. Now we’re seeing that gap bridged.

I hope at least one student or amateur project makes it to the finals of Canon’s contest. Even if it doesn’t, I dig it!

While this went on, a US based law firm was mulling over a class-action suit by Xbox Live users who had been locked out of Microsoft’s service. Their access to the Xbox Live cloud was barred over charges that they (the users) had modded their consoles. (Read all about it…)

This new stage in tech interests me. The entire computer age that budded in the 70s and 80s, and took flight in the 90s, came about because of guys who liked to meddle and mod. Now we’ve reached an era when the gargantuan companies founded by these same meddlers and modders seek to ban innovative experimentation.

There’s a point I’d like to make here, that won’t be the main point of this entry but…
Heading down to your hardware store won’t cut it for today’s tinkerers. The sophistication and intricacy of today’s tech is such that the present day innovator and inventor often starts by playing with finished products. Penalizing those modders and meddlers stifles innovation. And for patent laws to be used as the pillow is ironic, as those laws were designed to encourage growth in that area.

Moving on…

This idea that access to the cloud could be denied as penance, coupled with Google’s push to get all our data up onto that proverbial mass, certainly gave cause for pause this week.

With your right to privacy being something Google doesn’t believe in (read) and with Britain and France passing laws that allow entertainment companies to have at your Internet connection – you have to ask yourself, do I really wanna give up my hard drive? At least you’ll have some videos saved to keep you entertained when you’re in the dark.

I have a friend, living in London, who, a few years ago, became determined to collect classic books. He’s not the kind of guy you’d think would dig through Foyles for an old copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, in fact he’s the kind of guy who, you’d assume, had found a way to hack the Kindle and bring it across the pond. When I asked him why the sudden urge to horde old volumes, he said it was because he heard libraries in Britain were contemplating going digital.

He outlined his theory, which sounded something akin to the last chapter of Orwell’s Animal Farm. “Digital copies can be changed.” Any blogger knows even a post that’s been up for three days can be tweaked, if you suddenly spot a typo. So what happens when Common Sense and wealth only exist in that fluid state?

Copies seem to be getting softer. From the hard page, to bytes on a disk, and now a cloud? I look at my BluRays downloading software updates and wonder what’s being put in or taken out.

The idea of freedom and fluidity in media, in theory, has a certain appeal. But in many of the ways that said fluidity could benefit society, laws are being written and policies structured to hamper growth. What happens when we’re renting our content? Are we comfortable with our digital lives turning into a form of economic exploitation?

Think about the idea of working so that you can afford to keep your music collection. Think about the idea of working to preserve your family photos. Working to afford the storage spaces and subscriptions that keep your digital possessions alive.

Innovation, creativity and experimentation will have to be licensed. And it’s a painful irony but, in that fluid media, wealth will not be mobile.

Depressing I know, so I’ll stop there, and return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

With the LHC, Physicists hope to produce the Higgs boson, a scalar elementary particle thought to be one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Things keep going wrong with the LHC though. After its last mishap, on September 19th, 2008, the Collider has been in repair ever since.

Overbye brings to the fore theories by two physicists, Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan. Described by Overbye as two “otherwise distinguished physicists”, Nielsen and Ninomiya are kicking around the idea of the Higgs boson being “so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one.” Heavy!

Nielsen is my favourite of the two. He posits that God “rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.” Now I know there are God fearing physicists out there, I’ve seen a couple pray even. Having a physicist include God in the way that Nielsen did though – placing all of his colleagues in a holy little playpen – was downright . . . divine!

As benighted as it sounds, I take comfort in that playpen. We’re at an age when anything seems possible and our undoing more likely than enlightenment. I don’t know if I’d ask for brakes, but boundaries…are appreciated, dear Lord. And, yes, there is a part of me that cringes at the fact that I’d have that thought. Yet another part had it, and won out enough for me to write the thing down.

As for the wackiness in Nielsen and Ninomiya’s theories, my favourite bit from Overbye follows below:

Sure, it’s crazy… The theory was greeted on some blogs with comparisons to Harry Potter. But craziness has a fine history in a physics that talks routinely about cats being dead and alive at the same time and about anti-gravity puffing out the universe.

As Niels Bohr, Dr. Nielsen’s late countryman and one of the founders of quantum theory, once told a colleague: “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

I think an academic discussing the very foundations of our universe has to be a little out of it. It of course being the cradle with conventions and rules you’ve accepted but not yet explained. True, I’d rather see some of that creativity in our economics, at present. But before this sucker blows, let’s see how far these physicists, scientists and theorists get us. Maybe they’ll reach higher than Babel. OK, yeah…that’s the other part talking.

Read the rest of Overbye’s essay here.

My iPhone 3G (sans-S) decides to act up a week before my trip to Hanoi. Part of the problem was the glitchy 3.1 update, the other part: a faulty headphone port – damaged by the oversized jack on the V-Moda Vibe Duos.

No service centre in the land would touch my Hong Kong bought 3G. I was told by one mothafraker at the MidValley Machines store to take a flight to Hong Kong and get it fixed. This fool said it without a hint of irony or sarcasm. The A-hole meant it!

So I gave in.

I had originally resisted the ‘S’ when it came out, grumbling about the fact that I’d hafta spend 3k on one damned letter of the alphabet. “It stands for speed.” Frak you Forestall!

With mine broken though, I figured it was as good a time as any to replace and upgrade.

Turns out, stock of the 3GS is not only short, in my neck of the globe, it’s just plain out. So I decided to hit KL’s gadget underworld – the Low Yat mall. It’s half Tech-Wonderland, half you-betta-watchyo-back-’fore-somebody-robs-ya-man.

I was on the hunt for a unit with a Maxis warranty. After hours of sifting through jailbroken US units, Singaporean and Hong Kong imports and knock off iPhone Minis (O, it’s Malaysia baby, we have it all!), I finally found one, in the hands of a guy who wasn’t gonna cut me any breaks.

The Maxis Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB model retails for RM2,990 (that’s about 863 in USD). I ended up paying RM3,580 (that’s about ThisFoolMadeMeHisBitch in USD).

I’m still reeling!

On the way out of Tech Wonderland – watching my back in case somebody tried to rob me, man – I saw bargain laptops, offered at half the price of what I just paid for a phone. A phone!

Apple’s put out a really great gadget, one that had me on the hunt for most of my precious Sunday. From my first 2G iPhone, though – bound with a contract that signed over my first born to O2 – to today’s purchase, I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that I’ve been duped. It’s the one part of the iPhone experience I really wish Apple would change.

I’ve never had a problem with the “Apple Tax”, having been a Mac user for just shy of a decade now. I was always made to feel as though I came out with the bargain – the quality of the products justified it.

With all three iPhones though, I’ve left the store (two of ‘em Apple’s own) with a bad taste in my mouth. Being a company that places so much emphasis on buyer satisfaction and user experience, you’d think Apple would want to change that.

Mobile phone makers, listen up: I’m looking to break free. I want a phone with a great web browser, IMAP and Exchange, a good media player and a decent interface. Feel free to break the bank. Just treat me better than Apple has.

CNET’s Molly Wood once used the “bad boyfriend” analogy to describe Apple. And that works! Here in Malaysia, we have our own expression for that: “Pisau Cukur“. It’s not too different from Kanye’s Gold Digger. You can’t resist her but it just take too much to love her!

It being the opening weekend of J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek, I figured we could use an update on super-fast space travel. Apparently Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a Warp Drive might one day become science-fact. Could you ever have doubted it?

Some physicists say the faster-than-light travel technology may one day enable humans to jet between stars for weekend getaways. Clearly it won’t be an easy task. The science is complex, but not strictly impossible, according to some researchers studying how to make it happen. Read on.

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Apple gave the press a sneak peek at their 3.0 software update for the iPhone. They’ve finally put up the video stream of the presentation, which you can get at by clicking here.

The shocker for me was MMS. They missed the curve on that IMHO and it’s one of those features iPhone users have learned to live without.

Turn-by-turn and cut, copy, paste were long overdue and I’m glad they’ve finally rolled those out. I’m also happy to see landscape-mode for typing in Mail, SMS and Notes.

Here’s a rundown of all the new features in the 3.0 update. It will be available as a free download to iPhone users “this Summer”. iPod Touch owners will have to pay US$9.95 to upgrade. Same fakakta accounting excuse.

• In App Purchases
• Peer to Peer (P2P) connectivity
• Accessories API
• Maps API in Apps
• Turn By Turn (GPS)
• Push Notifications
• New APIs allow more access to hard/software for 3rd-party Apps
•       This includes 3rd-party App access to your iPod library
• Bluetooth Connectivity
• Cut, Copy and Paste (THANK YOU! FINALLY!)
• Landscape Mode for typing now in other apps (eg: Mail, Notes, SMS)
• MMS (Really? Now?)
• Voice Memos
• Search feature in apps like Mail, iPod, Calendar
• Spotlight
• New Home Screen
• Stereo Bluetooth headphones support
• Tethering Support (to use your iPhone as a modem for your computer)

Only a true geek could put this much love into a flowchart!

I don’t know whether it wears that title well. I wouldn’t put on a Ms. CleoPod for any amount of money. But this prototype is an astounding leap forward in computing that had this techie in glee.

“This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine “Minority Report” and then some.” (from TED.com)

Official write-up:

The sequel to Fahmi Reza’s cult favourite 10 Tahun Sebelum Merdeka, Revolusi ‘48 chronicles the largely forgotten armed revolution for national liberation launched against British colonial rule in Malaya 60 years ago. This documentary tells the untold story of those who struggled in the anti-colonial guerrilla war of independence, during the Malayan Revolution of 1948.

This is the best documentary I’ve seen from a Malaysian filmmaker. It was directed and edited by Fahmi Reza. I’m a little late to this one. I believe it’s a year old. Glad I found it though. Rather late than never.

So much of our history isn’t taught to us and films like these help reacquaint Malaysians with the parts of our past that we’d do well to remember.

We brush off and make light of the inherent flaws in our political system, jokingly saying that “it’s Malaysia” — with a tone of voice that volunteers the “What can you do?”. Behind that are managed expectations and ideals that would never dare extend past the conservative.

Just to know that there were once Malaysians who had bold national ambitions and a set of values similar to mine, lifts a weight off. All from a video on Vimeo. Bless.

As far as I’m aware this documentary was mainly distributed online. Circulated through links and seen through YouTube and Vimeo squares like the one above you.

The smart editing choices make the piece versatile enough for this medium and also attest to the competence of the filmmaker.

I’m gonna stop here with the gushing. Watch the documentary above and post your own REACTion to it, if you feel so moved.

Fahmi has a second documentary up called Revolusi ‘48. I’ll post that too, once I’ve watched it.

Really great animated documentary on how the world wide web came to be.

This is probably the only smart phone more intuitive, usable and just plain cooler than Apple’s iPhone. Shown at CES ‘09 today.

Bets had been cast on when the company would throw in the towel, in recent years, but Palm hung in there and did a very smart thing. They worked out the kinks in their marketing and distribution with devices like the Centro, before laying the golden egg, a device that could truly revolutionize the way users interact with a handheld.

Palm’s made a great statement with the Pre and its webOS: Good design is a part of the company’s DNA. I knew they had it in ‘em!

I placed an order for a pair on Tuesday and was surprised when DHL showed up with my order this morning.

Heard from a friend that Malaysians who ordered iWork ‘09, right after Tuesday’s Macworld keynote, will also be getting their orders before the week is out.

No Apple retailer in KL can tell me when the In-Ear Headphones will be in stock or when they expect iWork or iLife ‘09 to go on sale in their stores. It’s no competition really. Apple.com wins!

I’m still waiting for a Malaysian Amazon. I miss buying books, CDs and DVDs online. If Apple can do it that efficiently then any…well…it should be possible to at least pull it off

It’s an odd thing to do before Apple has even announced the product and I don’t think Vaja would’ve posted it if they weren’t sure.

How many GBs do you think? I’m guessing 1. The iPhone Shuffle!

HP caught my attention when they put out one of the first netbooks that could pass for an ultraportable PC: the MiniNote 2133. No cheap looking plastic, a useable keyboard and sleek design. It still had that tiny 8″ screen, which kinda ruled it out for me.

With the Mini 1000, HP bumped the screen up to a ten incher and bathed the same compact chassis in black.

It was one of the smartest buys I’ve made all year and the first PC I’ve loved using this decade.

Saw the above message after logging into Pownce today.

It would be the end of an era if Pownce had actually stuck around for an era. It’ll just be remembered as the cooler Twitter service that closed up shop a little too soon.

Members of the Pownce team will join Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type. Can’t wait to see the products they develop.

When I found out that Zachary Quinto (Skylar from Heroes) was going to play Spock in a new, J.J. Abrams Star Trek I heard the geek in me shout, “Oh hell NO!”

I took the early teaser as a sign of weakness. It revealed nothing but the awkward angles of a new Enterprise.

Apple.com has finally gone live with a full-length trailer and after seeing it I’m close to being won over.

They have Chris Pine in the lead as James T. Kirk. I’m glad I didn’t find that out beforehand or I might have shunned the movie altogether. Pine, of Princess Diaries fame, looks alright in the role but you’d think him as Kirk would be a bad idea on paper – much like the rest of this movie. To be fair, he did an extremely watchable D-list flick called Blind Date that I liked. He’s a good actor, from the little I’ve seen, and I hope this takes him to the next level.

Other cast members of note include Simon Pegg, Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy (the original Spock).

The visual effects are the work of Industrial Light & Magic. The trailer is a good taster of what looks like a stunning revamp of the Star Trek universe.

There is a harder edge to this film, suiting Abrams’ visual style. It lacks the optimism and campiness of the first series and TNG.

Knowing how big this franchise is I don’t think they’d do a hack job on it, economic slowdown and Hollywood desperation notwithstanding. It’s probably aiming to beam a whole new generation of fans on board, which it just might.

This much change in an old staple would put even Obama on edge though. But much like the state the American President-Elect is inheriting, the Trek needed new blood. You can tell I’ve been stuck in the newsroom too long.

Just don’t let the ole’school fanboys keep you from seeing it because they usually hate everything until an anniversary edition comes out on DVD.

The film drops in May and I can’t wait.

What this is, is an animated Excel spreadsheet with footage of the band performing. Dude!

It was made for “corporate drones,” as Gizmodo put it, “as spreadsheets navigate office firewalls with ease!“.

The Excel vid was done by a couple of guys at Sony BMG London to promote the band’s new album, Black Ice, which is being distributed exclusively on CD. That’s right. The same guys who rocked the Excel music video are shunning digital download stores.

It’s a risky move now that the number one music retailer in the States is Apple’s iTunes Store. But the album’s already gone #1 in 29 countries, including the US, UK and Germany (I needed a third thrown in there).

Kinda suits their audience tho. I’d bet good money that there’re a decent few in the band’s fan base who’d like to fight the move to digital downloads. So this might’ve been a smart marketing move on their part. Give the fans a cause over which to get up in arms.
Anyway, here’s the video on YouTube. If you’d like to download the full version you can get it here, off the band’s website.

Nokia recently launched a series of mobile phones that Come With Music. Released in time for holiday shoppers, the phones are targetted at parents who worry that their kids might be downloading music illegally.

The fee, for a year’s subscription to Nokia’s all-you-can-eat music service, is worked into the price of the handset. After the year is up the user can choose to renew their subscription or buy a new handset.

The Economist’s Business View column (from the Oct 4th-10th International Issue), discussed the merits of this new model for music distribution.

As they put it, this is meant “to reconcile the demands of teenagers, who think music should be free, with those of record companies, which want to make money.”

To pull this off Nokia’s taking a loss on the cost of running the music service, paying more in royalties than they can make back in fees.

The mobile phone manufacturer is hoping that after the first year is up a teenage owner will decide to buy a new phone instead of just renewing his/her subscription, since “teenagers like to be seen with the latest model,” according to Elizabeth Schimel, the head of Nokia’s music business.

When did it become alright for a business model to bank on overspending. Shouldn’t purveyors count on their service being a value-add while being profitable, particularly with a recession about to hit?

The Economist went on to quote a market researcher who said that over time Nokia may be less willing “to absorb the cost of running the service” and either “labels will have to do with less or mobile operators will have to pitch in.”

My main “qualm with music” is the industry’s inability to adjust to changes in the market. Mainly due to how inflexible labels have been, expecting everyone else to adjust around them.

How many of you scoffed at the notion of labels doing with less? I did, the moment I read that line because I’ve paid attention to the frivolous lawsuits, insanely high royalty fees and the unfair dispatching of take down notices. Not to mention every episode of MTV Cribs.

A major issue for publishing houses in the past year has been their dependence on Apple’s iTunes storefront. Music labels are now scrambling to find a competitor and it’s not because Apple is failing to make them money but because they feel they’ve lost control.

The column pointed out, “at the moment, record labels have to accept Apple’s terms.” Terms mind you that saved their hides when these labels botched online distribution with overpriced subscription-based services at the start of the millennium.

Now here we are again, back to the subscription model, and this time you’re actually looking for retailers/partners who want to take a loss in hawking your product.

A generation of music-lovers already exists who hate the publishing houses enough that ‘music activism’ has become a movement to topple ‘the label’.

The death of the label would really be the end of an era and there are those of us who wouldn’t want the baby thrown out with the bathwater. But with that much murky bathwater in the tub, that baby’s close to drowning anyway.

The zealous pursuit of every royalty fee is read as greed and obscures the positive role the label could play in the industry. The driving force behind a move to the commoditization of music has been the general public’s distaste for the way these labels do business.

As naive as it sounds to say focus on the positive, in my opinion, that’s what today’s labels need to do instead of obsessing over the upper-hand they’ve lost.

The strength of these publishing houses used to be in their distribution links/channels. Technology has however changed that and given independents access to the same storefronts and online warehouses as the ’signed artists’ get.

But the label system, much like the studios of old Hollywood, still has a unique way of uniting talent and creating hype. The focus should be on the quality of product and the nurturing of artists.

Instead of doing the things that make me wanna pirate just to spite you, remind me why I used to like you. It is the educated who choose to pirate music online. People with enough of a disposable income to afford the tech and bandwidth to download — not to mention the savvy to avoid spyware, trojans, viruses and DMCA traps. They don’t mind spending money on Rainbows because they know all of it is going Radiohead’s way and they don’t mind spending the time on an illegal download because they take pleasure in knowing their money won’t go your way.

It is those consumers who you need to win over. That disposable income could once again be your bread and butter. Shut down and outsource the distribution end and refocus your business model on improving A&R and content creation.

Remind us that Aretha wouldn’t have that sound if Atlantic didn’t team her up with Wexler and Ray Charles would never have tapped into his full genius if it hadn’t been for Ahmet Ertegün. Every artist needs nurturing, despite what some modernists say.

So take off that suit, roll up your sleeves and do you…better!

It’s body is covered by a fabric skin, instead of a metal outer-layer. There’s a metal skeleton underneath the fabric with various moving parts that allow the car’s body to change it’s shape, concealing and exposing different features with the click of a button (or four).

I can’t help but note that a pen knife might render the entire vehicle unusable. It just seems too easy to tear a hole in its skin. But when they come up with a flexible substance that can survive the plastic knife you get from your baker, they’d be able to use this movable skeleton idea to great effect. We just have to wait for it to be letter-opener proof.

Pinker presents his contentious research and posits perfectly. The presentation is paced and structured extremely well.

I don’t stand a chance of making it there this year and I am longing to go. I appreciate what’s been made available online though. They’ve got a pretty great archive up.

I’ve been looking to buy a Zune but the new Nano has given me pause. It now comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities. Both versions have built-in accelerometers that allow for a more iPod Touch-like Cover-Flow and a “Shake to Shuffle” feature that resembles the Sony Ericsson’s “shake to skip a track”. The Nano’s menus appear in portrait mode while videos and Cover-Flow appear in landscape.

Microsoft also upgraded their Zunes. The Zune.net site still hasn’t been updated with the details of the new players but from what I’ve heard they’ve added a 16GB capacity model to their flash line and a 120GB capacity player to replace their previous 80GB hard-drive model. No significant hardware-feature upgrades but they gave the player’s software a facelift and added a new feature that would allow users to buy the song they are listening to over FM Radio, on the Zune.

This bugs the hell out of me. In a submission to court back in July, Google argued that there can be no expectation of privacy in today’s world. “Today’s satellite image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist.”

They used the above as a defence in a recent suit filed by home-owners whose properties had allegedly been trespassed on and photographed by Google vans for their Street View service. According to ole’ G, these homeowners are wrong for expecting a certain level of privacy on their property.

Now for the sake of full disclosure I’ll take this opportunity to say that I am an editor for MSN. Let it be clear though that I use Google’s services frequently and have nothing against the company professionally. This is just b*tching on a personal level.

Clearing that up, I have to say how freaked out I am by the fact that a company, which has stated, clearly and in black and white, that it does not think there can be an expectation of privacy in today’s world, has managed to get itself exclusive rights to the most advanced global imaging satellite soon to be in orbit. Are you kidding me?!

Who knew the world dominating Artificial Intelligence envisioned in The Matrix and the Terminator would end up being a distant relative of AdSense?

Anyway, if you’d like to read more about G’s satellite check out the following articles:
CNET News: Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery
Slashdot: “Google Satellite” to be launched this week

I’ve been using a Nokia E65 since I got back from London. It offers exceptional battery life, pushes my mail to me and has handled everything, save my music files, brilliantly. Yet I just know that it doesn’t look or feel like my phone.

I haven’t seen a phone with flip-appeal in a while — the kind of phone you know you wouldn’t keep on call waiting — but today I found the one…or rather, my next one.

Sony Ericsson’s W902 is sleek, compact and boasts the media functions I’ve been missing from my E65 — a brilliant multimedia player with a 5.0 megapixel camera that has video capture to boot. This phone is so sweet I’ll be looking for it in the daytime with a flashlight.

My one worry is that its Exchange ActiveSync feature won’t support my mail account properly, which I desperately need for work. If you have used ActiveSync with any other Sony handset, let me know how it worked out for you.

No definite launch date announced yet. Most sources say it’ll be available in Q4 of ‘08, but only in selected markets. Here’s hoping Malaysia is one of them.

According to Rose, we can expect to see a complete revamp of the iPod line — including a significant redesign of the iPod Nano, that looks a little like a thinner 4GB/8GB Zune, and small cosmetic changes to the iPod Touch. The new Touch will be the first device to carry the 2.1 firmware out of the box. iPhone users will most likely have to update from 2.0 manually via iTunes.

We can also expect a new version of iTunes, with added features that, according to Rose, “deserve the 8.0 name”.

In the video entry Rose also mentions that Apple intends to bring down the prices of these players significantly, so as to prevent the iPhone’s new US$199 price-point from cannibalizing iPod sales.

Read/watch the full entry here