Mar
17
2009
iPhone finally gets copy and paste
iPhone finally gets copy and paste!!!
Mar
17
2009
Engadget – Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
Live blogging from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
Mar
17
2009
Apple confirms presence of proprietary chip in shuffle
A flurry of news broke out over yesterday regarding the proprietary headphones required by Apple’s new iPod shuffle, and now that Monday’s here and everyone’s back in the office, some things are starting to get cleared up. For starters, both Macworld and Boing Boing Gadgets have confirmed with Apple and various third-party vendors that the new…
Mar
17
2009
Update — No DRM In New iPod Shuffle
An anonymous reader writes “BoingBoing Gadgets has updated their story from yesterday on DRM contained in the new iPod Shuffle. (We also discussed this rumor last week.) It’s a false alarm. There is a chip in the headphone controls but it is just an encoder chip. There is no DRM and no reason to believe that third party headphones wouldn’t work with the new Shuffle. (Apple would still prefer you to license the encoder under the Made for iPod program, but with no DRM, there is no DMCA risk to a manufacturer reverse engineering it.) The money quote: ‘For the record, we do not believe that the new iPod headphones with in-line remote use DRM that affects audio playback in any way.'”
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Mar
17
2009
Update — No DRM In New IPod Shuffle
An anonymous reader writes “BoingBoing Gadgets has updated their story from yesterday on DRM contained in the new iPod Shuffle. (We also discussed this rumor last week.) It’s a false alarm. There is a chip in the headphone controls but it is just an encoder chip. There is no DRM and no reason to believe that third party headphones wouldn’t work with the new Shuffle. (Apple would still prefer you to license the encoder under the Made for iPod program, but with no DRM, there is no DCMA risk to a manufacturer reverse engineering it.) The money quote: ‘For the record, we do not believe that the new iPod headphones with in-line remote use DRM that affects audio playback in any way.'”
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Mar
16
2009
Apple criticized for iPod shuffle’s new ‘authentication chip
Apple this weekend was hit with a media assault after reports suggested that a mysterious authentication chip in the third-generation iPod shuffle, responsible for supporting the player’s new headphone-integrated playback controls, signaled a rogue attempt on the company’s part to block third parties from developing their own replacement headphones
Mar
16
2009
What Apple Needs to Fix to Keep the iPhone Competitive
Apple’s third-generation iPhone must adopt several crucial features to outsmart competing smartphones, developers and enthusiasts agree.
Mar
16
2009
Why Apple might reveal a tablet at tomorrows iPhone3.0 event
The Apple iPhone 3.0 event tomorrow might have more surprises than are immediately apparent. Especially in relation to a tablet. Here’s why:
Mar
16
2009
IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web
ProgramErgoSum writes to tell us that IBM’s Indian-based research arm is trying to bring a new dimension to web interaction through voice interaction on your mobile phone. Developing a new protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), the hope is to allow users to talk to the web and get a response. Without more explanation I’m hoping this goes about as far as the gopher web. “The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice and the response the company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and the kind of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling, Gupta said. “
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Mar
16
2009
Assemble the Social Web with Zembly
stoolpigeon writes “Web applications are all the rage. Web applications that function within the context of social networking sites doubly so. I think it is safe to say that pretty much anyone looking to garner a large audience on the web, for financial or any other reasons, has to be considering how they can reach people on sites like Facebook, or all those users out there accessing the web via their iPhones. Sun Microsystems has entered this arena by providing a set of web based development tools and a platform on which to host the resulting products that is now in beta and named Zembly. And while Zembly has not been open to the public for all that long, two of Zemblys architects with the help of two writers have published a new cookbook for the aspiring Zembly developer, Assemble the Social Web with Zembly.” Read below for the rest of JR’s review.
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