Tag: drm
Will Universal be the second major label to make its digital music DRM-free?
That’s what The Times reckons, anyway. In a report this weekend, the newspaper claimed that Universal Music is launching a trial of DRM-free digital music, to see if it’s worth following fellow major label EMI in ditching copyright protection.
Today on Tech Digest: Babelgum IPTV, Pay-as-you-go Nokia N95, £149 iPod suit from M&S, and more…
THE BIG THREE
Babelgum IPTV service now open for business – first impressions
Virgin Mobile offers Nokia N95 on PAYG – for a price
Marks & Spencer unveils £149 iPod suit
THE NEXT FIFTEEN
LG unveils super-slim X820 PC
Father’s Day Gadget Gifts: Gaming
Motorola launches Motocast – feed-like content direct to your mobile screen
CB2: the child-robots are coming!
Samsung SPH-W2400: a rotating HSDPA mobile phone
Hate digital music DRM? Buy the t-shirts!
The Trojan virus that pretends to be a YouTube video
Brits can’t live without their broadband
Samsin SBS-6600 wireless rechargeable Bluetooth speakers
50 Cent sets up shop in virtual world Zwinktopia
Make your website work well on the Wii
Digital Cube’s female-focused M43 iStation personal media player
Alcatel launches its first music clamshell handset – the OT-C701
Turn your phone into a 70s crime scene with Kojak Detective Puzzles
IBM releasing disease prediction software
THE SILLY ONE
Colonic irrigation made easy with the self-guiding colonoscope
Hate digital music DRM? Buy the t-shirts!
If you count yourself part of the iPod generation, you’re probably well aware of the ongoing controversy around digital rights management (DRM) for digital music. In a nutshell: people sell you music, but won’t let you play it on any device you want.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 31-May-07: Tiscali, Firefox, Wi-Fi, iTunes
– Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers’ email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we’ve got Big Brother now to distract us…
– Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren’t included.
– Apparently Londoners aren’t interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London…
Paul McCartney's new album being sold DRM-free online… for $1.56
The music industry has been waging a battle against Russian music download site AllOfMP3 in recent months, over the way the latter sells digital downloads of brand new albums for less than a couple of dollars. However, it seems the floodgates could be opening for similar sites.
Top 10 albums worth buying as iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads
It’s iTunes Plus day here on Tech Digest, and I’ve been scooting through the iTunes Store to see what albums are available as higher-quality DRM-free downloads.
What devices can play iTunes Plus downloads?
So, Apple launched its iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads yesterday, and the company is already catching flak for embedding users’ names and email addresses in the files they download. The big idea is that you’ll be able to play the files on devices other than iPods. So what do they work on?
iTunes Plus under fire for sneaky user-ID feature
Apple launched its iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads yesterday, but the company is already being criticised for the way that whenever you buy one of the iTunes Plus songs, your name and email address is embedded in its tags.
Today on Tech Digest: Microsoft Surface, Apple iTunes Plus, Last.fm and more
THE BIG THREE Our guide to Microsoft's Surface Apple launches iTunes Plus DRM-free music downloads CBS buys Last.fm for $280 million THE NEXT FIFTEEN Video review: HTC S710 smartphone Sharp's awesome-looking Aquos 912SH mobile phone Homersapien finally arrives in the…
Apple's new iTunes update promises 'iTunes Plus' DRM-free music
Something’s up in iTunes-land. It’s 7.55am, and I’ve just switched on my Mac. The Software Update application is asking me to download iTunes 7.2, which will allow me to “preview and purchase iTunes Plus music – new higher-quality DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels”.
