BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight against closed source systems.
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In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn’t just undermine “the security of the whole Web”. He’s made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on [...]
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The method of dual booting OS’s has been around for a while now, most noticeably/recently with OS X and Windows using Bootcamp on Intel Mac’s. Well looks like this marvelous tool/ability is making its way onto the iPhone thanks to the Dev Team and the recently published instructions form MuscleNerd.
Dual Boot an iPhone! The nerd [...]
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The new TV+ from Archos is being launched to make sure that Apple don’t get a hold of another digital media market. This new box from the French media player maker does everything the Apple TV does, except for one thing. It does it all better!
It comes with a 250Gb HDD, can record direct [...]
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For years, DRM critics have been arguing that the technology isn’t so much about stopping piracy as it is about taking away traditional fair use privileges and then selling them back to you. I’ve agreed with this for a while, but I never thought I’d see a major DRM vendor admit it so candidly: Steve [...]
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Lg have announced the release of the their new KS20 which they hope will be able to compete with Apple’s iPhone, due for release on the 9th November.
This new handset looks suspiciously like the LG PRADA KE850 and is released today in the UK, cunningly a few days before the iPhone.
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Cunningly released just a few [...]
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