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Today Apple and EMI announced that starting in May the iTunes music store will sell more expensive, higher quality, DRM-free songs. Most analysts have focused just on the fact that by releasing its music catalog with no DRM, EMI and Apple are signaling the beginning of the end for digitally protected media. They herald this […]
Back in January, when few details where known about the new device, I stated that the AppleTV was really a stripped down Mac Mini. Now that the product is available and that some clever hackers have been able to boot a complete version of OSX on the device, it is clear that I was right. […]
According to my web server stats, my previous post was pretty popular. It turns out that Iljitsch van Beijnum, an Ars Technica blogger read it and used it as an inspiration to speculate that Leopard will include a revolutionary new 3D user interface. I totally disagree with his reasoning. I think that Iljitsch completely misunderstood […]
During the analyst call following Apple’s Q1 earning announcement hosted by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, someone asked the question that is in every Mac user’s mind. What happened to iLife and iWork 07. The response was “Stay tuned…”. It is obvious that Apple is only weeks or months away from announcing the updates. Of course, […]
For the last six working days I have been unable to use my IBM Lotus Notes client. It turns out that a duplicated record on an LDAP server was responsible for the mess. Finally, after spending hours over the phone pleading for help, IBM’s internal help desk was finally able to diagnose and solve the […]
As I briefly mentioned in my previous post, I recently flew to Chicago to attend an internal IBM Rational kick-off event. As a technical manager at IBM I lead the Software Group IT specialist team in Mexico, which includes engineers who belong to the Rational brand. Therefore I need to know in what direction the […]
Two weeks ago I had to travel to Chicago to attend a Rational Software conference. This wasn’t my first trip to Chicago, but since the Conference wasn’t in Downtown Chicago, I opted to rent a car equipped with the Neverlost GPS system. There were some signs that alerted tourists that they would need US$.80 in […]
As most probably already know, some countries in Europe (Norway, France and the Netherlands among others) are putting pressure on Apple to force it to open the Fairplay DRM system. They argue that digital tunes should be playable on any digital music player, much in the same way that vinyl records could be played on […]
I do not write movie reviews very often, but when I go to the movies and I feel that I got ripped off, my only mean to get even is by using my blog. In this case, it is really about the script. If I had read the book beforehand, I would never have bothered […]
As a developer I recently received an e-mail from the ADC (Apple Developer Connection) in which Apple offers to those developers with Select and Premier memberships to buy the new Apple TV using their hardware discounts. I do not want to read too much into this announcement, since it may just be a perk for […]