Apple has officially posted on its website site,
here, the announcement of the Pepsi iTunes Music Promotion to be launched soon. It is not clear yet if it will be something similar to the promotion launched about a year ago, for sure both Apple and Pepsi believe in its success if they are repeating such promotion. You can enter your email into the indicated webpage in order to be notified when the promotion begins.
But in addition to last year promotion, this year one has the chance to win an iPod mini! One winner every hour!
Unfortunately for the rest of us, this promotion is limited to the US.
A message from Zekiller and congratulation for his work.
...I have just finished a new application which is a "donationware" for victims of December's tsunamis in the South East of Asia.
LookInPod enables you to read the audio files contained in your iPod since any computer. It also enables you to extract whole or part from the songs contained in your iPod. It will also give you hardware information related to your iPod. LookInPod is working independently than iTunes.
http://lookinpod.free.fr
Whereas most of the current DVD burner are supporting +R9 format, it does not seems to be a success-story for the +R9 media. This might be first due to the really high price of a +R9 media.
Why so high? Because DVD media manufacturer are facing challenging conditions, with high production cost coupled to low yields. Some manufacturers are already thinking about dropping double layer format media and to concentrate on HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray compatible media.
However, if you conclude that double-layer media are dead, you are wrong. In theory, DVD-R9 media, also known as DVD-R DL, is much easier to manufacture than the DVD+R9 media; so even it was released later, the DVD-R9 media might win the fight, and satisfy consumer criteria (quality, price).
Thanks to Daniel for this info.
Administrator of
http://www.applematters.com is not scarred at all by the operation!!
Thanks to a carton board cutter and a forceps, he has disassembled entirely the recently launched iPod Shuffle.
The battery is taking almost half of the space. Unfortunately, one could not get access to the chips, simply to know the brand name on them.
Last week, we published an information given by Digitimes, implying that G5 PowerBooks and iBooks would be released in the second half of 2005. Many sites relayed this information by quoting our news (thanks to them), some of them doubting Digitimes sources.
Digitimes administrators contacted us, to tell us they did believe their source were reliable. We hope their site will give us more information in the coming weeks.
Nicholas M. Ciarelli, aka Nick de Plume, creator of the rumour site
ThinkSecret, found himself in quite a tricky situation. He is being sued by Apple for having had informations in anticipation of the announcements. To sum up, his investigation work he did so well, that would have made any journalist so proud, deserved him to be attacked.
This 19 year old young man, as you may know, doesn't have the financial capacities to defend himself. He thus asked for benevolent advocates to help him do so.
Apple blames us for violating the NDA because we unveiled products before they were launched. We had been accused of such a thing many times, which our lawyers friends found veery amusing: how do you violate a contract you never read and especially never signed?
Apple has very little chances of winning, especially since, as the young man has no money, winning will bring them nothing.
This is admitting their weakness for the Apple brand, which proved unable to have their employees keep silent. By attacking a teenager, Apple want to show their staff they're ready to retaliate in order to stop leaks.
Nicholas thus gets sacrified for a cause that's not is.
We do wish that Apple's attack won't turn to be of the boomerang type, as it could incitate some of their employees to givve out more info, just because they disagree with this agressive stance, which would display once more they're unable to catch the real responsible ones.
