Posts Tagged ‘news’

March 16th, 2009

Facebook fun goes mobile with iPhone applications

Facebook is letting users of its flourishing social-networking community play together on the road by using Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices.
Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin revealed the news Saturday while flanked by an array of hip social software makers at a panel talk at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in [...]


January 8th, 2009

iTunes removing DRM… for a fee

For me, one of the most interesting announcements at Macworld 2009 is that Apple will offer DRM-free music on iTunes, while simultaneously establishing three tiers of music prices.
Record companies will be able to choose whether they want their songs to cost $0.69, $0.99, or $1.29.
Currently about 8 million DRM-free songs are available, with another 2 [...]