Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed
Mac OS X is heralded as the most appealing operating system on the market and one of the most capable as well thanks to its BSD (Unix) core.
Sadly, the number of user-friendly, appealing BitTorrent clients available for the platform are very few in comparison to the number of those available for Windows.
In this article we [...]
Hackers crack Apple, Microsoft music codes
In the continuation of a long-running arms race, both Apple Computer and Microsoft have seen their music protection technologies come under fire in recent days.
In the past month, separate programs have emerged to strip away the digital rights management (DRM) tools that the two technology giants use to protect music from unauthorized duplication. One of [...]
Apple admits excessive iPod hours
Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.
Staff making the world’s most popular MP3 player also worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time.
Apple said the hours were “excessive” and said its [...]
Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.1 Beta
Apple silently pushed an upgrade to its Boot Camp dual-booting software on Tuesday, offering support for the latest Intel-based Macs and better hardware support among other enhancements. The Cupertino company recommended that users of the previous version upgrade to the newest release to take advantage of the new features.
“You don’t need to partition your hard [...]
Nordic regulators to discuss possible action against Apple
Nordic consumer regulators will meet in Iceland this month to discuss possible legal action against iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc. if the company does not ease restrictions that prevent songs bought at its online store from being played on rival music players.
The meeting, to take place in Reykjavik on Aug. 24-25, will discuss whether the countries [...]
Apple’s Leopard shows up on file sharing sites
A file purporting to be a preview version of Apple’s next Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” operating system showed up on file sharing sites over the weekend.
The file claimed to be the preview edition of Leopard given to attendees at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, held in San Francisco last week.
But participants at the conference [...]
Apple Slams Windows Vista for ‘Photocopied’ Features
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet pointed to the desktop search technology built into Windows Vista and compared it to the Searchlight feature in OS X 10.4 Tiger. Serlet furthermore argued that Microsoft mimicked Apple by integrating an RSS reader into its Web browser.
Apple at its annual World Wide Developers Conference [...]
Norway and Apple still at odds over iTunes
Norway’s consumer agency has said it remained at odds with Apple Computers over the company’s exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store, insisting that the songs downloaded at a cost ought to be playable on other music devices.
The agency had given Apple until August 1 to respond to its criticism against [...]
Apple Remains Resolute on Interoperability in Scandinavia
Details are now circulating on a recent Apple response to demands by Scandinavian regulators. Non-confidential portions of the Apple document, submitted to Norwegian authorities, indicated a willingness to alter various aspects of the iTunes Music Store End User Licensing Agreement (EULA).
That includes the alteration and clarification of certain terms, including those related to downloads [...]
Huge European iTunes giveaway
Apple, Coca Cola join forces for 70 million free downloads.
Apple is teaming up with Coca-Cola in Europe to give away about 70 million songs on its market-leading iTunes Music Store — more than a third of the total number of songs it has sold there to date.
The companies declined to disclose terms of the deal.
In [...]
