game plan

A few weeks ago, at the Digital Music Forum East event, right before I went on stage to interview Gary Shapiro from CEA, there was a presentation from a new music startup I'd never heard of, called Beyond Oblivion.

The presentaiton (which is embedded below) was interesting, if incredibly vague. It looks like they're trying to create a music locker of sorts, but to avoid the various legal woes of other such music lockers by throwing a ton of cash at the labels.

It's basically "don't sue us" money.

There's long been talk of Nvidia joining the server CPU business, but most believed it would go the x86 route.

Instead, it chose ARM. Since ARM's dominance in mobile devices means it is the processor of the future, other companies need a game plan, and fast.

The Open Road: "Despite a meteoric initial public offering in 1999, Red Hat spent years fumbling about for a winning game plan, dabbling in technologies that took it far beyond its core competence in operating systems."