Tag: iPod

  • Zune to illegally add DRM to podcasts?

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    Microsoft is to launch the Zune on November 14th according to its PR site. This date is just in time for the American holiday of Thanksgiving. What is not clear from the site is if this is an American launch date of a global launch date. I wrote, in not too glowing terms previously about…

  • Apple claims trademark infringement on 'Podcast'

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    Apple has yet again sent in the lawyers – this seems to be a favourite tactic of theirs which is increasingly giving them a bad name (and I am a Mac fan!). This time, Apple have gone after a company called Podcast Ready for their use of the word Podcast and myPodder (their product name).…

  • Zune – where are the podcasts?

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    Microsoft have announced the upcoming release of their rival to Apple’s iPod – called the Zune. The Zune will have a 30gb hard drive (as opposed to the top iPod’s 80gb), will have an iTunes rival called Zune Marketplace (‘cos we all know the key 18-24 year old demographic thinks marketplaces are cool) and will…

  • Plus ça change

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    According to CNet, it appears that the French have backed down on passing legislation which would have forced Apple to open its DRM if it wanted to continue selling music online in France. The background to this is that all the music which Apple sells online through its iTunes stores has Apple DRM software applied…

  • Interviewed by Matt Cooper of The last Word

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    I was interviewed this afternoon by Matt Cooper of Today FM’s The Last Word in a follow-up piece to the Irish Blog Awards. Matt raised the recent proposal in France to make it legal to crack DRM – this was reported by Reuters yesterday: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer…

  • Jobs lands Disney!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Steve Jobs has managed to sell Pixar Animation Studios to Disney for $7.4 billion in stock. As part of the deal, Pixar shareholders will receive 2.3 Disney shares for every Pixar share they own. Steve Jobs currently owns 50.6% of Pixar so this deal will mean that Steve jobs is going to become the single…

  • Back in the seat again

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m back at the computer again and furiously making my way through the backlog of email which built up in my absence. If you sent me an email in the last week or two and I haven’t responded, please re-send it just to poke me! The break was great and Santa was very generous –…

  • Ripping DVDs for your iPod made easy!

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    Mark pilgrim has written a simple step-by-step guide to ripping DVDs so that they can be played on your shiny new video iPod. The guide is incredibly straightforward and has large screenshots to make it completely idiot-proof (even I could do it!). Obviously this will only be of interest to you if you want to…