Ken C. Pohlmann

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Reality Bytes: Mosquito Ringtones
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Nov 01, 2007  |  0 comments

"Hey, stop hanging around! You're blocking the doorway!"

That's what shop owners were shouting at teenagers who were loitering outside stores and in malls. The kids were supposedly deterring adult customers - that is, the ones with more spending power.

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Reality Bytes: Mosquito Ringtones
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 03, 2008  |  0 comments

"Hey, stop hanging around! You're blocking the doorway!"

That's what shop owners were shouting at teenagers who were loitering outside stores and in malls. The kids were supposedly deterring adult customers - that is, the ones with more spending power.

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Reality Bytes: My Fellow Americans
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Aug 24, 2008  |  0 comments

Red states, blue states. Which color do you subscribe to? My fellow Americans, as November approaches, our country faces a monumental decision. Our great society must choose between two very different candidates with visions of the future that are profoundly diverse. All of us must look into our hearts, and answer the question: satellite or cable?

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Reality Bytes: Pssst! Wanna Buy and iPod?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 11, 2007  |  0 comments

You're enjoying a lovely evening in the park - sandwiches and softball. A nice-looking kid comes over and offers to sell you an iPod for $100. You're reluctant, but it's a really sweet deal. You agree. The next day, you find out you've bought stolen goods. Congratulations! You're a business partner in the latest crime wave: stolen MP3 players.

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Reality Bytes: The Price Is Right! Or is it?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Dec 02, 2007  |  0 comments

How much is music worth? Nietzsche wrote, "Without music, life would be a mistake." That places a high value on sounds that entertain and sometimes inspire us. Then again, at 3 o'clock in the morning, you'd pay good money to have the music at the party next door shut off.

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Reality Bytes: Thoughts on Apple, EMI, and DRM: To Unprotect and Serve?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 02, 2007  |  0 comments

Here's some summer reading: Thoughts on Music, by Apple's Steve Jobs (apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic). It's not a romance novel, or even a juicy tell-all. Instead, his short treatise may change the future of recorded music.

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Reality Bytes: Turn Down the Funk
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 19, 2008  |  0 comments

You know what I'm talking about. You're watching your favorite TV show - well, okay, actually you're just mindlessly dozing in front of the tube (maybe even with a little drool), and then suddenly a LOUD COMMERCIAL jolts you wake! What the heck? Why are the commercials always so much louder than the programs?

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Receiving the Zombie Apocalypse
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 12, 2021  |  0 comments
Those poor dumb bastards didn't make it. But you did. At least so far. Every night, when the Zeke's come out to play, it gets pretty intense – all alone in your basement, crouching in the darkness. If only there was some way to connect to the outside world. There must be other survivors, but where are they? Fortunately, you remember a blog you once read.

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Redbox Renters Beware: Mystery of the Missing Audio Track
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Nov 24, 2015  |  2 comments
When you buy a Blu-ray Disc for $25, you expect the very best quality. When you rent a Blu-ray for $2, do you still expect the best? Or would the budget pricing lower your expectations? Do you simply assume that the bits comprising a rental movie are the same as the retail movie? You might be surprised to learn that not all bits are created equal. And therein lies a mystery.
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Remembering a Remarkable Man
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 13, 2022  |  1 comments
I’d like to tell you about Thomas Yuen, former chairman and CEO of SRS Labs, who died earlier this year at the age of 70. I didn’t know him well, but he made a tremendous impression on me.
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