“By making an episode of ‘Lost’ available for download last week just half a day after it aired, for a $1.99 charge, ‘Apple may have helped open a Pandora’s box for the media business,’ the Wall Street Journal reports…
Day: October 18, 2005
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WiFi iPod in the Works
Apple is working on a wi-fi equipped iPod with networking capabilities and the ability to directly interface with Airport Express base stations for streaming of iPod audio…
When Steve Jobs announced the plan to move Macs to Intel processors, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, joked,
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DVD Hacker and DeCSS Author Targets Apple
An article in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req’d) has the story about a 21-year-old Norwegian Jon Lech Johansen (a.k.a. DVD Jon) who defied Hollywood by releasing a hack that allowed anyone to copy DVDs when he was 15. According to the article this hacker’s “next target” is Apple Computer because of their limitations on the number of times you can copy files in iTunes…
If you’re considering the purchase of one of the new generation of iPods (i.e. nano or 5G video iPod) it’s important to think about accessories. If you’re upgrading from a previous model, you should take a careful inventory of your iPod doodads and accessories and make sure that they’ll work with your new iron.