Thursday January 25, 2007

- After the iPhone's Theme, the iPhone's Ring - Lionel - 20:51:00

As you already know, Apple has forced many websites to remove iPhone themes from their web pages, does not matter, the "iPhone mania" is such that there is now the iPhone's ring!
You can dowload it here (french geek website: http://www.giiks.com).
You can also find a iPhone cartonboard model for those who can not wait till June for USA, end of the year for Europe.
Enjoy it before Apple Legal forces them to remove it from their website.

[translation by Linathael]

- Next WWDC in June - Lionel - 16:55:19

According to Apple Insider, the next Mac developer Conference (WWDC) will take place in June. We all remember that last year, Apple shifted it from June to August in order to be able to announce the MacPro.
Steve Jobs enjoys quite a lot this event, and he has always announced new hardware or software products during the WWDC Keynote (PMG5, APX, Intel transition, Mac Pro, etc.).
So ready for Leopard in June?

[translation by Linathael]

- Ever more capacity for flash memories - Lionel - 10:50:11

The market of USB keys is the best indicator - even better than that of the iPod nano or Shuffle - that the run toward ever bigger flash memory capacity at a cheaper price is far from over. While two years ago you would have spent a fortune for a 1GB key, now they cost peanuts and you can even find 8GB keys under €100.
But that was only the beginning, it seems: Sandisk and Toshiba have announced the forthcoming production of 56nm flash memories.
Such a finer process technology will make it possible to give a %50 boost on the capacity for the same price.
The chip-makers haven't given further details concerning the access and transfer rates, but we can only hope they will match the increase of capacity or we'll end up with huge portable memory tanks taking ages to fill!

[translation by Greg]

- Blu ray Protection: It Is History - Lionel - 09:05:30

Source : Dailytech

Media protection are having difficult time. HD-DVD protection has already been cracked as we reported less than a month ago, now it is BD encryption to be defeated.
If HD-DVD was cracked using a software bypass method, to hack BD protection, they used a procedure based on a memory land marking function to locate the key once it is loaded in memory and defeat the encryption. It was successful, because keys were not fully protected in memory when running video-playing software.
Once more it proves that there is no unbreakable protection, it only takes time and depends on how much people are interested to crack it. Keep in mind that HD-DVD encryption was hacked by a user frustrated not to be able to play on his computer a legally purchased HD-DVD media because its computer was not HDCP-ready... As proven by history, protection are always cracked, so maybe Majors should investigate into another way to "protect" their business and media contents. Did they think of having full feature content via internet registration, or no limit policies to make consumers happy and not stress of dumping money for a media they are not sure to be able to play due to protection systems.


[translation by Linathael]