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A big story today concerns irregular activity on Apple’s iTunes store, the one and only means of purchasing applications for iPhone and iPad and central to the company’s strategy. The reports allege that developers are hacking iTunes accounts to purchase and give favourable review to their apps – which can only be a short …continue reading iTunes hacks: whose fault are they? Spare a thought for iTunes user Peter Bilderback. His account was hacked and someone downloaded almost a $1000 worth of items from the iTunes store using his account. Bad stuff, but it happens. Bilderback wonders why Apple did not query the purchase of iPhone apps, when it knew that he had no iPhone – …continue reading iTunes user has account hacked, loses access to his own purchases Google has made a big splash with its launch of Nexus One, even though technically it is not all that exciting. A neat phone; 1 Ghz Qualcomm processor; runs Android 2.1; good for web video with its inclusion of Adobe Flash 10.1, along with the ability to capture …continue reading Joining the Smartphone dots I was mildly surprised to see that Apple has approved Spotify for iPhone. Reason: if someone buys into the Spotify subscription model, why would they ever want to purchase music from iTunes, whether for iPhone or elsewhere? The iPhone version lets you listen to selected tracks offline, so that is not a problem. …continue reading Apple, Spotify, Google and iPhone: how to get into App Store I’ve just posted a review of the Squeezebox Boom, a lovely device that once set up is perfect for hiding all the computer gunk and letting you enjoy the music wherever you are in the house. During the review I noticed that Logitech’s Squeezenetwork, which aggregates a number of Internet radio stations and music …continue reading Squeezebox and Napster – the perfect combination? Brandon LeBlanc comments on last week’s Guardian article on DRM and says: What is interesting to me is the article neglects to look at what Microsoft is doing with Zune in regards to DRM. Just like Apple and Amazon – the Zune Marketplace also offers DRM-free music. According to this page on the Zune …continue reading Why we don’t talk about Zune The Economist has a report on change in the music industry, which kicks off with this anecdote: IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them …continue reading Great anecdote in the Economist about the decline of the CD I’ve reviewed LG’s new camera phone here. I found this an interesting device because it has a Flash UI, one that for the most part works very well. It also has an excellent camera. No wi-fi, which is a shame. The Viewty is bound to be compared to the iPhone, because both have touch …continue reading Camera, Flash, Action: review of the LG Viewty A couple of days ago I blogged about the database hash in new iPods, which prevents their use with song management software other than iTunes. There is no iTunes for Linux. The good news is that apparently the hash has been cracked, “using a debugger on Windows.” Miguel de Icaza goes on to observe: …continue reading iPod database successfully hacked – for now Apple has apparently made some changes to the iPod that make it increasingly difficult to use with anything other than iTunes. Since iTunes does not run on Linux, this affects Linux users more than anyone. I wrote a piece a while back on Linux multimedia, and was impressed at how well my old iPod …continue reading New iPod locked more tightly to iTunes, will not work with Linux |
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