One of the Palm Pre’s selling points is its ability to sync with your current Itunes library. On Tuesday, Apple published a support article iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players.
Read the excerpt below
Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.
While they don’t mention Palm by name, It’s pretty clear who they are talking about. The thing is, their has always been devices that are able to copy songs from Itunes but the Palm Pre goes the extra step of identifying itself as an iPod. This of course has something to do with the fact that the Pre has a lot of former Apple engineers working on the device.
Palm’s response is
“Palm’s media sync works with the current version of iTunes,” Palm spokesperson Lynn Fox told Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski. “If Apple chooses to disable media sync in a future version of iTunes, it will be a direct blow to their users who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience. However, people will have options. They can stay with the iTunes version that works to sync their music on their Pre, they can transfer the music via USB, and there are other third-party applications we could consider.”
I am very surprised that Apple did not file a lawsuit like they have been threatening for months now.
Filed Under (Internet, Media) by oral on 15-06-2009
I was messing around with Wolfram Alpha, the new computational engine and I must say it can very very helpful if you know what to look for. It can also return some hilarious answers like the one below. The question was “Are you Skynet?”
Microsoft canceled their free Live Product Upload, for those of you who don’t know what the service did, it was similar to the Google Shopping Engine. As an online merchant I had very high hopes for this program because of the runaway success of Google’s Program.
It is being replaced by the Cashback program which Microsoft launched last year in a partnership with Ebay and quickly spread to the rest of the web. It offers a percentage back to they buyer’s Paypal account if and only when a sale is made.
Live Product Upload page http://www.bing.com/productupload/SorryPage.aspx
Live Cashback Page http://www.bing.com/shopping/pages/howtouse.aspx?FORM=R5FD3
Filed Under (Social Networking) by oral on 15-02-2009
With the job losses mounting, I’ve noticed and explosion in the amount of friends I can find on the social networking site linkedin.com. The growth can be attributed to more people looking for work and its the perfect site to network. The amount of people asking for recommendations, a feature on the site, has also increased. Even people I don’t know are begging me to recommend them.
LinkedIn is a free business social networking site that allows users who register to create a professional profile visible to others. Through the site, individuals can then maintain a list of known business contacts, known as Connections. LinkedIn users can also invite anyone to join their list of connections. LinkedIn offers an effective way by which people can develop an extensive list of contacts, as your network consists of your own connections
Filed Under (Google) by oral on 31-01-2009
Earlier today all searches on Google produced the “this site may be harmful link” next to every search result. It only lasted an hours and the problem was quickly reversed.
Google issued an apology on its blog and attributed it to a human error.
We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.
Click the screenshot below to read more at Techcrunch.
