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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Microsoft must be rubbing its hands with glee. Mac users are reporting a major problem with Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X 10.3, better known as Panther: it erases data on external drives. For many this is fatal, Wired reports, since many Mac users backed up their files to an external FireWire drive before installing the… Read More »