Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 18, 2005 at 4:08:19 PM
I'll be putting that review out tonight. I had some homework todo yesterday that took all my time.
Windows XP Starter Edition off to a slow start. Rename it to XP 'Sucks more than usual' and see how it sells.
Download music from iTunes without DRM.
Intel granted time to read Japan FTC's document.
Spring begins on March 20th.
EU wants Microsoft to comply more with sanctions.
Intel to demo Yonah, its new dual core notebook CPU.
Windows XP Starter Edition off to a slow start. Rename it to XP 'Sucks more than usual' and see how it sells.
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According to Gilliland, PC makers in developing markets are mostly focused on driving hardware sales, not software margins. "They don't really make much profit from the OS (operating system) component of the PC. If they can sell more PCs to resellers by removing the OS, that's what they are going to do," he said.
Download music from iTunes without DRM.
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How? With a PyMusique, a new front-end he and some pals/future co-defendants created for the iTunes Music Store that let’s you buy songs without any of that bothersome DRM stuff. Seems that our good friend discovered that when you buy something from the iTMS, the DRM is only added to the tracks after you’ve purchased and downloaded them, which sort of makes sense since they do need to be tagged to your account. You’ll still have to actually pay for the music, but PyMusique conveniently neglects to wrap the file with any copy protection, which means you’re free to do what you want with the unrestricted file, including copying it to multiple machines or sharing it over P2P. Hard to imagine how this could possibly be legal, since Apple specifically requires you to access the iTMS only through their software (Laurie Duncan actually read the ToS and checked), but you may as well enjoy the next six to twelve hours before Apple devises a way lock PyMusique users out.
Intel granted time to read Japan FTC's document.
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"We asked for an extension to continue our evaluation of their recommendations," Mulloy said, declining to specify which areas of the recommendations the chip giant was focusing on. It's not unheard of for companies to ask for extensions from Japan's FTC, but it is not a common occurrence, said Hiroshi Yamada, a director and spokesman for the Japanese agency.
Spring begins on March 20th.
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While it’s true that we’ve traditionally celebrated the beginning of spring on March 21, astronomers and calendar manufacturers alike now say that the spring season starts one day earlier, March 20, in all time zones in North America. Unheard of? Not if you look at the statistics. In fact, did you know that during the 20th Century, March 21 was actually the exception rather than the rule?
EU wants Microsoft to comply more with sanctions.
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That would enable them to make their servers more easily compatible with computers running Windows software. The International Herald Tribune quoted Todd as saying the Commission suspected Microsoft's plan discriminated against open-source software companies by denying them access to Windows code.
Intel to demo Yonah, its new dual core notebook CPU.
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Power consumption remains one of the chief concerns for chip and computer designers. Dual-core chips, which contain two processing cores rather than one, will actually consume less power than current desktop and notebook chips because they will initially run at slower speeds. (Yonah will be a single piece of silicon with two cores, Intel has said. Others, like the future desktop chip Presler, will consist of two separate pieces of silicon fused into a single package.)