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HTC revenues have reportedly gone up 22% due to Google Cell phone. According to latest reports, it has become possible for hits such as T-Mobile G1 as well as the ‘Touch’ line.
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Sony BMG has dropped digital rights management restrictions from its MP3 catalogue of music that will soon be available through its new download service, Platinum MusicPass. Sony BMG is the last major label to offer tracks free of copyright protection.
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EMI and Universal are doing it. So are smaller labels. Sony BMG and Warner Music may soon join the club of record labels releasing music through the unrestrictive MP3 format. It’s about time.
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Files purchased from the iTunes Music Store have always contained personal information, and the new DRM-free files are no exception. But just how much and what kind of information do they contain? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is investigating.
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Bob Zitter, HBO's chief technology officer and head techie nerd announced today at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show in Las Vegas that people don't like DRM because of it's ugly name
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In response to content being removed by site owners from Digg.com, Digg users revolted and reposted the posts thousands of time and actually took down the bohemoth news website.
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Following Apple's lead, Microsoft has announced that the Zune Marketplace will offer DRM-free downloads from EMI's catalogue. Microsoft also claims to be discussing similar arrangements with other music labels.
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Apple and EMI have teamed to give the deep-six to restrictive DRM, but the price of those files come at a premium. Apple says the new files will deliver higher audio quality, but is it really higher audio quality? Is it worth the premium price?
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The Zune is in a different situation with DRM that the iPod. With the iPod DRM isnt such a huge impact, but Zune is (almost) based fully around DRM. Could the end of DRM mean the failure or success of Zune? And was Steve Jobs thinking about this?
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When the heads of both Apple and Microsoft agree that DRM is bad. Then it's time for the industry to make changes
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Science fiction publisher Tor UK decides to drop anti-piracy restrictions from its electronic books.
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