Tag Archives: Apple Inc.

Update: More DRM Woes For Online Music

 Further to my previous post about DRM, or digital rights management, here’s a story from IDG News Service about software that may allow Windows-using customers of Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store to break the DRM technology that protects files downloaded from that service.   That the guy who posted it — or hosted it… Read More »

News: Software turns iTunes Into MP3 Downloader

 Sometimes I wonder whether it’s ever going to be possible to produce a watertight way of limiting access to digital music. Take Apple’s very popular iTunes, for example. CNET reports that an independent software developer has created a program that lets users of iTunes for Windows grab song files from other people on a computer… Read More »

Update: Online Music Gets Nasty

 This whole online MP3 download service business is getting nasty. The Register reports that MusicMatch and Apple, once in cahoots, are now doing what they can to elbow the other off the stage. “Apple and MusicMatch are locked in a battle to see who can infect as many personal computers with DRM (digital rights management)… Read More »

News: PowerBook G4 Woes

 Apple are having a hard time of it of late. According to CNET hundreds of owners of Apple Computer’s new 15-inch PowerBook G4 are complaining about an apparent design fault that causes white spots to show up on the notebook computer’s liquid crystal display.     Apple said on Friday that it is looking into… Read More »

News: IBM Pursues The Fold Out Computer

 I’ve always thought this would be the way forward: fold out computers. Now IBM are onto it, according to ZDNet.   One of their more promising designs, ZDNet says, uses a dual screen, connected by a single hinge, which provides a total display area closer to that used on desktop PCs when the device is… Read More »