According to Michael Robertson, a digital music expert, iTunes will soon have a feature that allows users to back up all their music to the cloud: An upcoming major revision of iTunes will copy each user’s catalog to the net making it available from any browser or net connected ipod/touch/tablet …
January, 2010
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12 January
Alleged cybersquatter defends actions
Last week, Apple won a domain dispute in which it accused a Los Angeles entrepreneur, Daniel Bijan, of cybersquatting. Bijan lost 16 domains to the company famous for its iPhone and iPod products. Now he has issued a public statement regarding the incident. The domainer says he was “naive at …
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8 January
American loses 16 domains to Apple
Daniel Bijan, a Los-Angeles singer and entrepreneur, recently lost a domain dispute with Apple over 16 domains. In its complaint filed under ICANN’s UDRP, the Cupertino company claimed the names were confusingly similar to its trademarks. Naturally, the arbitrator ruled in favor of Apple. A few of the names seized …
November, 2009
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18 November
Apple gains control of itunes.com.mx
Given the large number of domain extensions out there, it’s nearly impossible for companies to register a domain on each one for all their products. This explains why Apple recently filed a dispute over the name itunes.com.mx, which had been registered several years earlier by a cybersquatter. Naturally, Apple won …
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13 November
FTP files for free in OS X with Cyberduck
There are a lot of free FTP clients out there for the Mac, but my favorite is Cyberduck. Boasting a great user-interface and support for a wide variety of protocols, it’s a good alternative to the popular but expensive Transmit 3. The open source software has a number of features …
August, 2009
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18 August
Speculation about Apple data center abounds
Apple’s plans for a mega data center in North Carolina have been public knowledge for some time, but few details about the facility itself and its intended purpose have been divulged by Apple thus far. That hasn’t stopped people in-the-know from speculating, however. One industry expert, Data Center Knowledge editor …
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10 August
Microsoft joins the HTML 5 discussion
Last month we discussed the current state of HTML 5, particularly regarding its video component. Not only were the major browser makers, Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Opera, all duking it out over what should be considered standard, but the largest browser maker, Microsoft, had barely contributed to the debate at …
July, 2009
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16 July
Prototype allows for creation of iPhone data center
In June, a free piece of software called ServersMan launched that lets any iPhone or iPod Touch be used as a web server. Its maker, a Japanese company by the name of FreeBit, wants to go even further, unveiling a prototype today for an iPhone server rack. The rack holds …
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6 July
Apple, Google and the death of HTML 5 video
Who done it, with what, and where? Was it A) Microsoft, inside their security deficient, sub-standard browser with an over-hyped search engine? Was it B) Apple at its elitist developer conference with an exploding iPhone app? Was it C) Google in a YouTube video with a poison drop of lonelygirl15‘s …
June, 2009
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8 June
Use iPhone or iPod Touch as Web Server with ServersMan
Just in time for the suspected announcement of the new iPhone, here’s a post about an application that lets you use any iPhone or iPod Touch as a web server. Launched last month under the name Serversman, it lets any iPhone/iPod Touch connected to a WiFi or 3G network be …