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| Time: 08:19 EST/13:19 GMT | News Source: Australian IT | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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NAPSTER'S chief executive has blamed technical glitches from Microsoft and music player makers for hampering his company's ability to compete with Apple's iTunes music service. "There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months," Napster chairman and chief executive Chris Gorog said at a New York conference. "Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers," he said. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 3/1/2006 10:31:02 AM |
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Well, he's right. "Plays For Sure" has been one hell of a hollow promise so far.
BTW... We should rename this site "ActivePopup.Com - THE place to test your blocker software!". TL |
| #2 By 61 (72.64.155.167) at 3/1/2006 1:31:33 PM |
| Yeah, IE7s pop-up blocker is no match for AWin, Firefox isn't much better. |
| #3 By 8273 (131.107.0.104) at 3/1/2006 3:29:40 PM |
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I used to use napster after they became a paid service (and a few times when they were 'free'). I had all kinds of problems, including them deleting my account 3 seperate times, files which I could no longer play while some would work just fine, etc. I then switched to MSN music and Buy.com. The only problem I had with MSN was that I reformated my computer a few times without deauthorizing and I had to call customer support to erase those old computers. 10 minutes later and I was able to reauthorize. I am copy these files to portable devices, burn CDs with them, play the files on multiple computers (including through my XBOX360 and MCE) with no problems. And yet, those few Napster files that I bought sit on some folder with the hope that some day I can hear them again.
As for the popups, it is the reason I visit here once a week rather than a couple times a day like I used to - and yes, I tried it with FF with worse results than IE7. I am OK with inline ads, but with every popup I visit this site less and less. |
| #4 By 17996 (66.188.88.180) at 3/1/2006 3:47:00 PM |
| Napster has no one to blame but themselves. Take a look at this account by Microsoft blogger Tony Schreiner: http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2005/07/15/439549.aspx |
| #5 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 3/1/2006 4:18:27 PM |
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I have never gotten a popup on activewin. Currently using maxthon over IE7 beta. |
| #6 By 22962 (12.223.99.215) at 3/1/2006 5:00:39 PM |
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I am viewing this with Firefox and not getting any pop-ups here. Even no pop-ups when viewed with IE6/7.
-Bud |
| #7 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 3/2/2006 8:42:47 AM |
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Then you guys need to tell us exactly what you are doing, because your no-popup experience shure isn't matching a lot of ours.
I'm running the SP2 blocker, the google blocker AND SpywareDoctors's blocker, plus I have the domains in the blocklist, and yet they STILL come through. Even the one's that are blocked still annoy because instead of truly blocking, IE's blocklist allows the window appear, it just closes it real fast. What a dumb-ass design. For you activewin people, in case you haven't noticed, the posting traffic here is slowly eroding away to NOTHING. This used to be ACTIVEwin. Now it's POPUPwin, one of the most annoying tech forums on the internet. You guys are starting to get a bad name with this overly-aggressive advertising. You've gone too far. TL |
| #8 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at 3/2/2006 10:17:10 AM |
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I used to have Maxthon over IE 6 (latest version). I turn on all of the pop blocking for IE and for maxthon along with the all other blockers (ad blocker, floting ad, active x, etc.). I can't remember the last time i actually got a pop up and 95 percent of tha ads on most pages are blocked. I am now running IE 7 Beta 2 and Maxthon. It is pretty stable and I get the same result. Never have seen a pop up on Activewin or any other pages with it. If you use IE you should really give maxthon a try - you get tabbed browsing (if you use IE 6) along with a lot of blocking stuff. I have had some problems with it though. OWA doesn't like running in it for example (runs very slow - might be the activex blocker or something else) so i just use IE for that. The great thing about maxthon is that it is just a wrapper so you can use it and then also open IE whenever you want.
http://www.maxthon.com/ |
| #9 By 22962 (12.223.99.215) at 3/2/2006 11:54:57 AM |
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I agree that ActiveWin should do something about the pop-up based advertisements since this site drives visitors away. It's annoying as hell except me since I am not getting any pop-ups.
To ActiveWin Team: If you want to keep visitors to come back, kill the pop-ups and place the ads somewhere on the page. And you will get more hits from that point on. Thought you might like this suggestion. To TechLarry: Maybe you did something wrong or missed a step when you set it up. Or you probably got the wrong or bad software.. I had pop-up blocker enabled in FF's settings dialog. -Bud |
| #10 By 2 (69.89.169.136) at 3/2/2006 12:24:04 PM |
| We've recently eliminated one of the pop-ups. Things are getting better. |
| #11 By 17996 (66.188.88.180) at 3/2/2006 7:15:16 PM |
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TechLarry - In Manage Add-ons, set "DHTML Edit Control Safe for Scripting for IE5" and "HTML Document" to "Disabled." This should eliminate all automatic popups.
Though there is no way to block the popups when you click on a link (or anywhere else on the page). |
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