The Morning Reboot wants to go to the Bahamas:
- The New York Stock Exchange will be testing a program later this year to give real-time stock quotes across the internet (pending SEC approval). Google has already said they will offer the service for free.
- AOL is ditching its AOL Music Now service in favor of Napster. The two companies announced today that AOL signed Napster as its exclusive online music subscription service. Napster was widely rumored to be considering putting itself on the auction block and may still be headed for some sort of sale.
- Earlier this week at the Macworld Conference and Expo, Steve Jobs announced that the iTunes Store would be offering movie downloads from Paramount studios, and now it seems that 71 narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the Sundance Film Festival are also slated to be distributed through iTunes.
- The déjà vu of HD-DVD vs BluRay just keeps getting stronger. According to many, the porn industry's preference for VHS was one of the tipping points in its fight against Betamax and now comes word that the porn industry prefers HD-DVD to BluRay. But will it give HD-DVD the critical mass it needs to overcome BluRay?
- Notorious Swedish group The Pirate Bay is seeking to buy the micronation of Sealand and use it as a copyright-free haven. I think the idea is genius, if implausible — straight out of a Neal Stephenson novel. But what's up with pirates buying stuff? Shouldn't they just clench their sabers between their teeth, grab the nearest halyard and attack?
