Tag archive for ‘Apple’
Apple Announces iPhone 2.0
As anticipated, Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone 2.0 at the Developer’s Conference in San Francisco today. As rumored, the new model will sport a faster Internet connection (3g, or third generation wireless) and built in GPS. An 8GB model will go on sale July 11 for $199.00.
Apple’s target for the [...]
DVD Jon Strikes Again
Jon Lech Johansen reached international fame and notoriety as a 16 year old Norwegian who reverse engineered the copy protection on DVD’s, allowing consumers to make copies of products they owned for personal use - of course, it also allowed everyone who used the program code, called DeCSS - to copy any DVD, whether they [...]
Lawsuit Filed Against Apple, iTunes
Weren’t we just talking about iTunes yesterday? About compatibility issues with the iTunes format? News came last night that Stacie Somers of San Diego, who owns a 30 gig iPod, has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple because the device isn’t compatible with other media and players on the market. The lawsuit asks that [...]
SONY Drops Copy Protection from Downloads
On the heels of final sales numbers falling flat for all of the music industry, Sony Music has announced that it will drop DRM (Digital Rights Management) for all of its music - making their artists available in a pure MP3 format for the first time. EMI Records was the first to drop DRM, followed [...]
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