Old-line filesharing services can’t seem to switch sides fast enough: Now Kazaa, leading purveyor of illegal MP3s and maliciously mislabelled pornography for few years in the early 2000s, has been reborn as a legal, paid music download service. $US20 a month gets you unlimited downloads, 2005-style: in WMA format, wrapped in tons of DRM. The history of iPod-incompatible music stores is littered with dead bodies, so, well, best of luck. [SMH via The Inquirer]
A June 29 job listing indicates that Palm plans to eventually rectify the Pre’s lack of gaming of powah—they’re looking for someone to “design, implement, debug, and optimise frameworks for game development” who has “knowledge of 3D graphics, including hardware graphics pipelines and programmable shaders.” More »
Surprise, Apple and RIM actually make a lot of money despite selling only 3 percent of the world’s mobile phones. Together, they pull in 35 percent of the industry’s operating profits. An analyst suggests that if iPhone and BlackBerry’s marketshare climbs to 5 percent, they’ll rake in something like 58 percent of the industry’s operating profits. More »
One of the more interesting, ways to keep your precious Time Machine backups safe: Time Warp is a $US25 app (free while in beta) that compresses and encrypts your backups, then uploads them to your Amazon S3 account. More »
Say what you want about the Gateway LT3100‘s AMD processor and operating system options, but at least it had an angle. The $US300, Atom-based 10.1-inch LT2000, on the other hand, is as predictable as netbooks get. More »
If it’s good enough for Apple (and Nokia, and Microsoft, and RIM, and Palm, and Android…), then it’s sure as hell good enough for Lucky Goldstar! That’s right, LG has just launched the beta of their very own app store for LG feature phones. Even better, the press release is full of smacktalk! More »
The inexorable advance of the bionic eye continued this weekend, as doctors reported they were able to implant tiny telescopes (telescopes!) into the eyes of patients suffering from macular degeneration. More »
