Hey want our DRM in your product… So we’re going to sue you.

Ok, Apple is backing away from DRM. The public is starting to clamor more against DRM. And here we have a company going, no one wants to use us, so we’re going to sue those companies that spurned us and force them to pay us royalties.

Media Rights Technologies (MRT), developers of technology that [...]

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Ok I think I just got passed the funkiest setup. I don’t know what someone would want a ruggerized mac mini. But if you do, here is a company out for your buck. Hell they could even resell that ruggerized thumb drive to go with it .  Hell the thumbdrive is only [...]

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Building on the success of its iTunes-based “Hear Music” page, Starbucks has decided to launch its own record label. Hear Music will sign its own artists, and sell its recordings through Starbucks stores and iTunes. According to the AP, Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, says the company has focused on the success of its [...]

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Apple and Cisco have agreed to share the iPhone brand, with Cisco dismissing its lawsuit. (Read Wired commentary.)
A joint statement calls for the companies to work on interoperability between their products and ends a 40-day spat that began shortly after Apple announced the iPhone at January’s MacWorld conference. Cisco, the owners of the trademark, slapped [...]

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I was sorta peeved that Apple went with Cingular when they announced the iphone.  To have it locked into a service provider that has bleh coverage and who I’ve heard nothing but problems from didn’t seem like an Apple thing.  And then I read this:
Verizon Wireless could have been the first wireless carrier to [...]

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Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court over Apple’s use of Cisco’s registered iPhone trademark for its new handheld device.
Cisco has owned the trademark on the name “iPhone” since 2000, when it acquired InfoGear Technology Corp., which originally registered the name.
And three weeks ago, Cisco’s Linksys division put the [...]

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When Apple Rules The World / What does it mean when you really, really want to lick a new MacBook Pro, and swoon?
I have right here in my hot little hands that actually aren’t all that little and are only slightly warm at the moment a brand new lick-ready smooth-as-love Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 [...]

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The main problem with the video iPod is that there’s no video equivalent to headphones, as Steve Jobs has pointed out before. I’ve tested goggles that let you watch movies on a virtual widescreen TV; not only can they make the viewer nauseus, but their “space age” appearance can have a nauseating effect on [...]

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Today I found two posts very interesting from Google. First it was Google announcing that they’ve put together a Mac Division per say to help make Google as compatible as possible with the Mac. The second was that they officially announced the purchase of YouTube for 1.65 Billions Dollars. (Yes that was a [...]

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Intel offers $1m for a Viiv-based Mac Mini killer
Intel will pay whoever designs what it reckons is the world’s coolest living room computer $1m. Apple’s Mac Mini might be a candidate, but despite the appearance of VP Phil Schiller during CEO Paul Otellini’s Intel Developer Forum - a first for the Mac maker - the [...]

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