etc: Roger Ebert uses Mac OS X’s text-to-speech to "talk" after losing his voice to thyroid cancer. He recently demonstrated a custom voice generated from archives of At the Movies.
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pRoger Ebert uses Mac OS X’s text-to-speech to “talk” after losing his voice to thyroid cancer. He recently demonstrated a custom voice generated from archives of emAt the Movies/em./p
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Apple wants to extend its cloud storage to films, television
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pApple’s recent affair with cloud computing appears to be far from a dalliance: Apple has supposedly spoken to some of the major film studios about allowing iTunes users to store their purchased content on the company’s servers, according to unnamed sources speaking to a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10462562-261.html” CNET/a. The content, including TV shows and music, would be accessible from all Internet-connected devices./p
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Since Apple doesn’t comment on anything before it’s final, we’re left to speculate on the reasoning behind such a move. Some analysts say that sales of digital movies and music may have declined between 2008 and 2009 because users are becoming wary of how much hard drive space they devote to these files. This may be a bit of a reach, but HD movies can indeed add up pretty quickly for those who haven’t gotten around to upgrading their computers or getting a beastly sized external drive.
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Before Apple can enact cloud storage, though, it will need the approval of content creators and studios to do so. Unfortunately for Apple, many media companies have been joining forces to exert some control over digital media standards. One such group is the a href=”http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/01/studios-flesh-out-dece-universal-video-drm-formats.ars”Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem/a, which counts among its members Twentieth Century Fox Film, Netflix, and Sony. Nonetheless, Apple is a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/experts-debate-apples-plans-for-huge-nc-data-center.ars”building a new data center in North Carolina/a that is speculated to be the future home of Apple’s streaming headquarters, with streaming technology provided by a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/cloud-storage-may-be-main-focus-of-apples-lala-buyout.ars”Apple’s recent acquisition of Lala/a.
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John Gruber of a href=”http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/03/apple-cloud”Daring Fireball/a speculates that the cloud storage could mean one of two things: Apple may want to provide a sort of backup or sync point for users’ media, or it wants to remove local storage for the customer entirely (thereby exercising even more control over the user’s content). Removing local storage would bring the iTunes Store model dangerously close to that of Netflix and other streaming services; at a minimum, customers would no longer be able to claim even the limited ownership they have of their media in the current format.
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pA backup, on the other hand, imight/i be more appealing if it’s pitched the right way. As it stands, recovery of iTunes Store-purchased media is far from difficult#8212; often a note to customer service will do the trick#8212; but being able to get whole seasons of TV shows off a cramped hard drive without this extra step to get them back indicates that a cloud-based library- or backup-type solution might actually be helpful to some users.
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Valve creates fake Apple ads, teases Steam on OS X
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pValve has been getting clever when its announcements recently. The company has intrigued fans by a href=”http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/03/valve-mystifies-gamers-with-portal-update.ars”placing hints of emsomething/em/a in an update to emPortal/em, and gamers are still following the clues to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. The next announcement? It looks as if Steam is coming to the Mac./p
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pValve has been sending cryptic images to a number of sites, using its characters and properties to create faux Apple-looking advertising. Francis is talking about a href=”http://kotaku.com/5484955/steam-mac-ads//gallery/4″”hating” different/a, Gordon Freeman a href=”http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-apple-announcement-of-something/”is wearing iMac colors/a… the list goes on./p
pWhen the beta for the new look of Steam went live, enterprising gamers found files with Mac OS X identifiers, getting the talk about a Mac-native client going. These images should get people talking even louder. With GDC right around the corner, we should expect a big announcement soon./p
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Apple stepping up pressure on music labels to snub Amazon
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pApple has allegedly been pressuring music labels to ditch Amazon MP3’s “Daily Deal” promotions, lest they be excluded from being promoted through the iTunes machine. According to anonymous executives speaking to a href=”http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/magazine/upfront/e3i5207f9d259b81f62d46a894f7a55e1bd”Billboard/a, Apple has always been uncomfortable with the labels double dipping with both iTunes and Amazon, but the company has ramped up its complaints lately in an attempt to retain its lead in the online music market. Though Apple still remains in the a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/04/apple-passes-wal-mart-now-1-music-retailer-in-us.ars”number one spot among all music retailers/a, the move is indicative that Apple takes competition from Amazon very seriously./p
pOne unnamed music executive said that, when Amazon first launched its Daily Deal section in 2008, the labels weren’t included in the discussion and no one was given any special privileges for being there. Nowadays, however, Amazon has asked labels to give the company a one-day exclusive before street date in order to be featured in the Daily Deals. This was the turning point for iTunes, it seems#8212;iTunes reps allegedly began threatening to “[withdraw] marketing support for certain releases featured as Daily Deals” if labels continued participating./p
pSpeaking about iTunes, another major label executive told Billboard that “[t]hey are . . . diverting their energy from ‘let’s make this machine better’ to ‘let’s protect what we got.’”/p
pSome of those threats have apparently worked: labels representing Corinne Bailey Rae, Lady Antebellum, and Ke$ha have all reportedly pulled out of Daily Deals consideration in favor of staying on Apple’s good side. And, because Apple’s distaste for the Daily Deals at Amazon has become widely known in the industry, other labels have decided not to play the game at all by holding back their online offerings on the street date emand/em the day before. /p
pAmazon MP3 has been gaining popularity rather quickly since its launch in 2007, due largely to the fact that it was the first major online music store with a fully DRM-free library. In late 2008, market research firm NPD Group noted that a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/04/amazon-mp3-stores-gains-not-coming-at-itunes-expense.ars”Amazon MP3’s gains were not coming at the expense of iTunes/a, though. Instead, NPD said Amazon had been building its own user base and that only 10 percent of Amazon’s customers had previously bought through iTunes. /p
pLast year, however, NPD released a new report saying that a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/itunes-sells-25-of-all-music-in-the-us-69-of-digital.ars”Amazon had already taken the number two spot/a in online-only music sales#8212;iTunes sat at 69 percent with Amazon MP3 at eight percent. Even though the differences in market share were significant, Apple knows that Amazon is gunning for its spot and that it’s only a matter of time before the two are on more equal footing. /p
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Apple loses one, gains one in employee shuffle
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pLong-time Apple executive Pablo Calamera has left Apple in favor of a CTO gig elsewhere, while former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder started work at 1 Infinite Loop on Monday. Pablo will become the CTO at Thumbplay, a company specializing in ringtones and streaming music, while Snyder will work as a senior security product manager at Apple./p
pAccording to the Thumbplay announcement, Calamera served as director of MobileMe service while at Apple. Despite the service’s less-than-stellar reputation during his time there. Thumplay saw fit to scoop up Calamera. The newly branded CTO spent time at Danger Inc. and WebTV Networks, among others, before joining Apple./p
pAs noted by ema href=”http://www.pcworld.com/article/190524/exmozilla_security_chief_takes_job_at_apple.html”PC World/a/em, the Snyder hire comes on the heels of her timenbsp;managing security consultants atnbsp;Microsoft and working on Windows XP and 2003 Server. What Snyder will do at Apple remains unclear, but the two variants of Safari (Windows and Mac) or the iPhone OS seem to be likely candidates for her expertise./p
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Apple’s ITC complaint names HTC phones, 10 other patents
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pAs we reported, Apple a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/htc-feeling-apples-fury-over-smartphone-patents.ars” title=”Ars Technica: HTC feeling Apple’s fury over smartphone patents”filed a federal lawsuit/a against HTC Tuesday claiming infringement of 10 of Apple’s patents related to smartphone technology. Apple said that HTC violated 20 of its patents, and the remaining 10 are covered under a parallel complaint with the ITC. That complaint also names essentially every current HTC product as infringing devices./p
pThe complaint, unlike the federal lawsuit, specifically calls out HTC smartphones by name. Devices suspected of infringement include the Nexus One, Touch Pro and Pro2, Touch Diamond, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream (aka T-mobile G1), myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris.
/ppSeveral of the devices run Google’s Android operating system, though the rest run a version of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. Neither of the complaints specifically target either Google or Microsoft, however. Likewise, Apple has yet to file any complaint against Palm over its webOS-based Pre or Pixi smartphones, though COO Tim Cook alluded a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/apples-massive-371-page-iphone-patent-granted-by-ustpo.ars” title=”Ars Technica: Apple can now swing +6 mace of multitouch at enemies”that could happen/a last year./p
pThe 10 patents in question in the ITC complaint include:/p
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lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=7d4aAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5481721/a: emMethod for Providing Automatic and Dynamic Translation of Object Oriented Programming Language-Based Message Passing Into Operating System Message Passing Using Proxy Objects/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=C4YdAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5519867/a: emObject-Oriented Multitasking System/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=AGwIAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”6275983/a: emObject-Oriented Operating System/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=L-IeAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5566337/a: emMethod and Apparatus for Distributing Events in an Operating System/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=7MAYAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5929852/a: emEncapsulated Network Entity Reference of a Network Component System/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5946647/a: emSystem and Method for Performing an Action on a Structure in Computer-Generated Data/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Z0sXAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5969705/a: emMessage Protocol for Controlling a User Interface from an Inactive Application Program/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=nCYJAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”6343263/a: emReal-Time Signal Processing System for Serially Transmitted Data/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=1lEEAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”5915131/a: emMethod and Apparatus for Handling I/O Requests Utilizing Separate Programming Interfaces to Access Separate I/O Services/em/li
lia href=”http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Lb0GAAAAEBAJ” title=”Read this patent”RE39486/a: emExtensible, Replaceable Network Component Systems/em/li
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pThose patents are related to technologies used in the iPhone and iPod touch as well as Macs running Mac OS X. Notably, they are all software patents, and software patents have a contentious status in the US. However, Apple states in its complaint that these patents have some litigation history and that a number of companies (the list of which is redacted as confidential) license these technologies. The federal case, in contrast, requests the 10 patents listed in the suit be declared as valid, suggesting they have yet to be tested in court./p
pOne tidbit that caught our eye in the ITC complaint is that NeXT remains a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of Apple. Both Apple and NeXT are named as complaintants./p
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HTC feeling Apple’s fury over smartphone patents
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pApple has filed a lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, alleging that it violates as many as 20 patents that Apple has on the iPhone interface and hardware architecture. A parallel complaint has also been filed with the International Trade Commission to block imports of devices that violated the patents in question./p
p”We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it.nbsp;We’ve decided to do something about it,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.nbsp;”We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”/p
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Ex-CEO Darl McBride might buy SCO’s iPhone software business
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pSCO is still drowning in its own fail sauce but hasn’t completely suffocated yet. The company’s Chapter 11 Trustee has proposed selling off SCO’s mobile technology business for some quick cash. The prospective buyer is said to be none other than Darl McBride, the company’s much-despised former CEO, according tonbsp;anbsp;a href=”http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2010022701114662″report/anbsp;by Groklaw./p
pSCO, a former vendor of proprietary UNIX systems, launched an unsuccessful litigation assault on Linux in 2003. The company claimed that Linux was developed with proprietary technologies that were misappropriated from UNIX. Although SCO publicly claimed to have incontrovertible proof to back up its accusations, internal memos later revealed that the company’s own audits had found no evidence of infringement. SCO’s case completely fell apart in 2007 when a judge ruled that SCO never even owned the rights to UNIX. SCO was ordered to pay millions of dollars to Novell, the rightful owner./p
pSCO has been struggling for survival and has used every trick in the book to avoid liquidation. The company still hopes that it can win on appeal, despite the fact that it no longer has the necessary resources to continue the fight. SCO’s latest survival tactic is a scheme to sell off its mobile business for $35,000. Groklaw says that the buyer, Mobility Inc. Holdings, is affiliated with Darl McBride, the former CEO of the SCO Group. McBride is generally viewed as the architect of SCO’s demise and the front man of the litigation strategy./p
pSCO’s mobility business includes a suite of FranklinCovey-branded iPhone applications. When Judge Kevin Gross issued a a href=”http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/judge-compares-scos-litigation-hopes-to-waiting-for-godot.ars”scathing rebuke/a against SCO’s stalling tactics last year, he commented that the company’s mobile technology had little value. The Chapter 11 Trustee acknowledges that SCO no longer has the capital to continuing developing its mobile technology by itself./p
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etc: Netflix is polling subscribers on their interest in an iPhone app that would stream over WiFi. Maybe there’s hope for a near-term iPhone OS solution after all.
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pNetflix is polling subscribers on their interest in an iPhone app that would stream over WiFi. Maybe there’s hope for a near-term iPhone OS solution after all./p
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