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ilounge.com - 3/14/2009

Review: Apple iPod shuffle (Third-Generation)

— ilounge.com — Author's pic By Jeremy Horwitz Editor-in-Chief, iLounge Published: Friday, March 13, 2009 Category: iPods Pros: Apple’s smallest, lightest iPod yet, and first iPod shuffle with remote control functionality. Offers modestly better transfer speeds and ... (more) Review: Apple iPod shuffle (Third-Generation)

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 3/16/2009

We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM?

— gadgets.boingboing.net — You'd never guess it was there—a tiny chip, barely a millimeter square, hidden inside the headphone module on the third-gen iPod shuffle. If you dismantle the module itself, you still won't see it: it's underneath a board containing a few simple ... (more) We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but ...

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money.cnn.com - 3/10/2009

Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen - Sources

— money.cnn.com — TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday. The mini laptop computers will ... (more) Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen - Sources

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Apple's New iPod shuffle Garners EFF Criticism
Tech-Ex — When Apple introduced the new iPod shuffle a few days ago, I noted that ehey had (somewhat amazingly) reduced its size (again). But as iLounge noted, it also has a new Apple authentication chip, and that got the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) stewing. Apple purportedly uses these chips to assure that products used with the iPod meet the "Made for iPod" standard and will work properly with the device. If you read MacDailyNews, you'll even hear that the "iPod shuffle has ‘authentication chip’ on headphone interface because ...

Apple's New iPod shuffle Garners EFF Criticism
DriverHeaven.net — ... When Apple introduced the new iPod shuffle a few days ago, I noted that ehey had (somewhat amazingly) reduced its size (again). But as iLounge noted, it also has a new Apple authentication chip, and that got the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) stewing. _________ Source: Tech-Ex ...

New iPod shuffle hides DRM chip?
TechSpot — Want to use headphones designed and manufactured by a third-party with the latest iPod shuffle? Well, Apple has decided to make that difficult. Not only because it decided to move the controls off the device itself and onto the headphones, but because a group of people have also found a mysterious chip inside these controls and believe that it might be the company's latest step towards a more strict marketing drive. [image] You see, headphone makers could normally just reverse engineer the interface to build their own compatible accessories. However, if this is indeed ...