- January 8th, 2009, by Scott,
Today at Macworld Expo, during the keynote by Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller, Apple announced the end of the DRM era – all tracks available in iTunes will be available solely as iTunes Plus songs. What this means for consumers is that Apple now will be offering high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoded files which no longer have restrictions on CD burning or the amount of computers on which the music can be played.
Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI — and thousands of independent labels, now offer their music in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format with higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding. iTunes customers can also now purchase and download songs directly onto their iPhone 3G over their 3G network — just as they do with Wi-Fi today — for the same price as downloading to their computer. And in April, based on what the music labels charge Apple, songs on iTunes will be available for 69¢, 99¢, or $1.29, with most albums still priced at $9.99.
Unfortunately, if you have ever purchased DRM-encumbered tracks from Apple, you are going to get the shaft should you desire to remove the DRM from your existing purchases!
Read the full story on TechMiso.
- January 8th, 2009, by Scott,
Redmond reported Tuesday that their Mac Business Unit (MacBU) is running strong after 25 years. Eric Wilfred (GM of the MacBU) says:
“We started on the desktop and today the MacBU delivers new ways for Mac users to connect to Microsoft productivity on the Web.”
Microsoft and Apple actually collaborating on something? Yes. And for 25 years to boot.
Read the full article on TechMiso.
- January 6th, 2009, by Scott,
Highly popular micro-blogging site Twitter has had a series of widespread security incidents over the course of the last week, culminating when high profile accounts owned by President-elect Barack Obama and Britney Spears were hacked. In addition to Obama and Spears, approximately 30 other accounts had inappropriate tweets generated by this latest round of attacks.
Following these highly publicized incidents, such as the recent Twply issue followed by the widespread phishing scam aimed at Twitter users, one has to wonder what, if anything, Ev and Co. are going to do to improve Twitter’s security.
But is mitigation ultimately Twitter’s responsibility? I say no.
Read the full article on TechMiso.
- January 5th, 2009, by Scott,
They say the first step to realizing you’re addicted to something is to admit you have an addiction. To recognize you may have a problem. So here I am, on this faithful Monday evening, confessing I have a healthy addiction to Google’s online products.
Let me explain.
Waaaaay back in the day, on April 1, 2004, when Google originally published their press release regarding Gmail, announcing the company was testing a preview release of their web-based email product I was ecstatic. The holy grail had arrived – Google, our saviour, to rescue us from the evil web-based email providers has surely devised a far superior product, right?
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- January 1st, 2009, by Scott,
TechMiso
TechMiso, a joint blogging venture between close friend Rich and myself, just launched on New Years Day Tokyo time. The obvious focus is information technology but we are not only going to be writing about your average, every day topics. One of our more important goals is to zone in on the government and it’s use and misuse of technology.
Head over and read the first couple articles and let us know what you think. If you have any ideas for content then by all means, fire away!
Today at Macworld Expo, during the keynote by Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller, Apple announced the end of the DRM era – all tracks available in iTunes will be available solely as iTunes Plus songs. What this means for consumers is that Apple now will be offering high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoded files which no longer have restrictions on CD burning or the amount of computers on which the music can be played.
