Apimac has released Caller ID, a shareware application for Mac OS X that works in the background and provides a visual alert to inform you about the person currently calling on the phone. The tool lets you distinguish business from personal calls and lets you decide in advance how to answer and respond. It uses your Address Book contacts to match a…
NBC announced late Thursday afternoon that it will not be renewing its contract with Apple to sell NBC TV shows through iTunes. That is, unless NBC can convince Apple to enforce stricter DRM and allow NBC to charge even more for the TV shows that iTunes has put on the map.
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JVC on Friday released the world’s first rewritable disc to feature dual layers on a single side, mimicking some movie DVDs and allowing users to write up to 8.5GB of uninterrupted data. The breakthrough brings the physical size of a dual-layer DVD in line with single-layer counterparts while permitting as many as 1000 complete burns. A new hard-…
In what we believe to be a first for the iPod accessory industry, a company called Uniea is beginning to promote a new iPod case for a model that hasn’t been officially announced or even more than indirectly confirmed yet by Apple. The case, described as the U-Suit Hard Protective Leather Case for New iPod, features a soft leather exterior, hard plastic interior with scratch-resistant inner lining, and a front hole sized for a roughly 2.3-inch…
Toyota on Friday released an iPod Integration Kit that works in all current Toyota and Lexus models. The kit, first announced in early May, is installed in the vehicle’s glove box: it connects Apple’s iPod directly to the car’s audio system and can recharge the iPod’s battery, according to Leftlane News. Once connected, all of the iPod’s functions …
A little bird has suggested to me that perhaps this morning’s NBC and Apple story isn’t as straightforward as it appears to be—you know, “bad NBC wants $4.99 per episode, good Apple wants $1.99 per episode.” It is possible, the bird tweets, that NBC wasn’t attempting to raise its iTunes Store pricing; rather, Apple may have been demanding a larger cut of the $1.99 asking price, and NBC could have responded by offering…
Belkin is showing its upcoming TuneBase 2 FM Transmitter at the IFA 2007 conference in Berlin, Germany. The TuneBase 2 is said to sport a mono display for navigating stations, an auto tune feature that finds the clearest frequency on which to broadcast, and a “signal booster.” As with previous Belkin TuneBase products, the TuneBase 2 draws power for both itself and a connected iPod from its cigarette lighter mount. No pricing or release…
Apple spent $120,000 on lobbyists in the first half of 2007, according to a recent disclosure form. The firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP lobbied the federal government on behalf of Apple on issues related to the European Union’s intellectual property policies, according the the form. An iPhone has exploded following a failed hardware-based unlocking attempt. An image of the damaged phone appears to the right. Sony has officially decided to…
Overseas internet service provider iiNet today launched the first ever technical support line dedicated to Mac users in Australia. The company’s CEO said his company formed the service for the growing number of customers using Macs. “The number of iiNet customers who use Macs is increasing […] this new support line is about extending our already …
In the wake of NBC’s announcement that it plans to pull its content from the iTunes Store and Apple’s subsequent announcement that it would cancel the broadcaster’s contract, other providers of for-purchase content available through iTunes have lined up to express their continued support and media availability. Disney Channel executives, for instan…