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Feed DRM-free EMI music hitting iTunes today? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @02:12AM

It was promised for May, now Apple is busy rolling out iTunes updates to "preview and purchase iTunes Plus music -- new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels." Hmmm, "labels" huh? That's plural which means Stevie boy might have more than EMI up his sleeve when he goes on stage for All Things D later today. Mind you, you still can't purchase any DRM-free music on iTunes but that should be corrected in time for some heavy grandstanding.

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Comment Re:10 Layers? (Score 1) 117

by smiker on Friday January 12, 2007 @04:22AM (#17570370) Attached to: Three HD Layers Today, Ten Layers Tomorrow

Just need glue: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/10/warner_lau nches_total_hd_disc/

Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund 372

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @11:06AM from the show-us-the-check-dave dept.

scottv67 writes "Dell today gave freelance programmer and sysadmin Dave Mitchell, of Sheffield, UK, a refund of 47 pounds ($89) for the unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 bundled with his new Dell Inspiron 640m laptop, Mitchell says. Dell also refunded the tax, for a total of £55.23 ($105)."

Flickr Patenting "Interestingness" 95

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @09:12AM from the yeah-thats-unique dept.

tjcrowder noted that Boing Boing is reporting that Flickr has filed for a patent on a system for determining "interestingness". From the patent application abstract: "Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media object, access patterns related to the media object, and/or a lapse of time related to the media object." So basically, nobody else can use tags to label files. Totally original thinking from the folks at flickr. *cough*

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Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade 641

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New Solar Panel Technology Gaining Momentum 181

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