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By Josh Ong Published: 09:35 PM EST (06:35 PM PST) Apple sent emails to music label representatives Tuesday notifying them that iTunes music previews in the United States will be extended from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. In an email (shown below) obtained by AppleInsider , Apple announced that it is "preparing to increase the length of music previews from 30 seconds to 90 seconds on the iTunes Store in the United States." The letter was sent to label representatives from "The iTunes Store Team." No time frame was given for when the extended previews will be available to U.S. customers.
Apple increasing US iTunes music previews to 90 seconds
As with all patent applications, it's a bit early to get too excited about this one, but a recently published filing from Apple dubbed "Nitriding Stainless Steel for Consumer Electronic Products" is one of the more interesting we've seen from the company as of late, especially when you consider its recent acquisition of Liquidmetal's intellectual property. Whereas Liquidmetal promises to let Apple create metal devices that are stronger and not limited to the usual structural or strength limitations found in conventional metals, this new patent application suggests that the company might also be working on a nitride coating for stainless steel that's described as "both scratch and impact resistant." What's more, the application suggests that the coating would not affect the appearance of the underlying stainless steel, and not cause any RF interference either.
Apple patent application offers promise of stronger, scratch-proof stainless steel -- Engadget
McAfee has compiled the wisdom and insight of its security researchers and produced the 2011 Threat Predictions Report . The report contains a variety of forecasts, prophecies, and educated guesses on what to expect for computer and information security next year, but one of the most notable is that Apple has achieved some level of critical mass that makes it a prime target. Based on trends in 2010--both trends in what and how technology is used, as well as trends in attack techniques and attack volume--McAfee surveyed the evolving threat landscape and made some projections for the coming year. Those predictions include a rise in attacks focused on social networking, exploiting geolocation check-in data, and targeting mobile platforms like smartphones and tablets. That brings us, more or less to Apple's newfound prominence as a malware target.
Apple No Longer Flying under the Security Radar - PCWorld Business Center
Apple to make glasses-free 3D tech - The Times of India
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Amazon vs Apple for the future of entertainment | News | TechRadar UK
So much for Apple's much-rumoured, cloud-based music service: Amazon's beaten it to the punch with Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web and Cloud Player for Android. Apple's own iTunes cloud service is expected later this year. We know that Google's currently using Google Music internally , so a release of that must be imminent. Spotify's been streaming music forever. And Microsoft...
Amazon to Apple: Oh, it is sooo ON!!! – Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
Screenshot of Amazon.com browser window, showing the CloudPlayer; foreground window is the Amazon MP3 Uploader, copying iTunes playlists into Amazon CloudDrive. This is why I love my job. Today, Amazon enabled two new features to their site: Amazon Cloud Player and Amazon Cloud Drive .Apple's App Store Dominated By Pay Apps, Google's By Free Apps
Are iPhone owners more willing to pay for applications than Android owners? Or are Android developers just more interested in giving away their apps? Something's going on with these two app markets which have completely different make ups, according to Royal Pingdom .
Apple adds demo video to MobileMe mail
The MobileMe web app went down for scheduled maintenance last night , and returned this morning with an overview video. In about three minutes, it points out the features of the recently-redesigned Mail web app . Those who have been using it for a while won't find anything new in the video, but it's still a nice review. It starts by describing the different view options and how to enable each. Next the friendly Apple voice demonstrates how to create and apply rules, and finally moves on to several formatting options (another recently-introduced feature).
Macworld Mobile to orbit App Planet at MWC 2011 in February
The Mobile World Congress , a huge mobile-oriented conference convening in February in Barcelona, Spain, has been dominated by the iPhone over the last several years. However, there has never been a formal presence by Apple or many major players in the iPhone ecosphere at the event. That's going to change in February of 2011 when the first Macworld Mobile will be held at MWC to showcase iOS developers.Apple boots BitTorrent-related app from store | Utilities | iOS Central | Macworld
Posted on Oct 5, 2010 9:52 pm by Joel Mathis , Macworld.com Apple has given the boot to an iPhone application capable of managing BitTorrent downloads, the app's developer said Tuesday. Macworld has confirmed the program is no longer available from the App Store. “Just got a call from Apple.
Apple has been awarded a patent that can keep you from sending or receiving "objectionable" text-messages. The patent, filed in January of 2008 and approved today, will allow certain content to be filtered, based on parental controls. The description of the patent doesn't mention sexting, although that may be the main thing many parents would want to forbid. Rather, it gives the example of parents requiring a set number of words per day be included in emails for a child learning Spanish. And parental control applications to encourage language acquisition are, indeed, innovative. The abstract of the patent reads:
Apple Awarded a Patent To Prevent Texting "Objectionable Content"
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Through interviews with friends, former colleagues and business associates, GAME CHANGERS reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs - his style of leadership, management and creative process. Interviews include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned Venture Capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple "Mac Evangelist" and Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki and Robert X.Cringely, technology journalist and former Apple employee. (Source: Bloomberg)
Game Changers: Steve Jobs - Video - Bloomberg
from the um,-no dept Lawyer Terry Hart, who we linked to last month for his discussion about whether or not it was okay to call infringement theft has now written another piece arguing that those of us who point out that copyright is not property may also be making a mistake. Specifically, he points to a recent paper by Christopher Newman, which suggests that the problem might be that we don't treat copyright enough like property , and that if we treated it even more like property, many of the problems with copyright law, specifically in the area of derivative works, would be more efficiently handled.