News Archive for 08/12/15

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Radioshift Touch offers Internet radio for iPhone

12/15, 8:20pm

Radioshift Touch

Rogue Amoeba has released Radioshift Touch, an app for the iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to tune into Internet radio stations. The program can be used to access thousands of streams, including local AM and FM stations. Audio data is accessible with a Wi-Fi, EDGE, or 3G connection, while a SmartStream feature is designed to automatically find the optimum bitrate for the current network conditions. The stations can be searched by name, popularity, or genre.

iPhone apps: SerialBase, Reversi Sister, North Pole

12/15, 4:30pm

PencilBot ESL 1, SnapTell

SerialBase ($2) is an app designed to work like the default Contacts app, but storing serial numbers as opposed to phone numbers. Aside from these it can record the likes of activation numbers, program websites and tech support e-mails. The information can then be exported to Mail and sent to a desktop for storage or as backup.

Labels split on demands for DRM-free from Apple?

12/15, 4:00pm

Labels split on iTunes DRM

Hold-out major labels are split on what they want before allowing DRM-free tracks on the iTunes Store, anonymous sources claim. Although Apple CEO Steve Jobs has claimed to want DRM-free tracks on iTunes, only EMI and a host of independent labels have so far offered any material which can be copied without arbitrary restrictions. Apple benefits financially from DRM by forcing iTunes customers to use iPods for many tracks; this is not why DRM-free tracks have been slow in proliferating however, according to the sources.

Taiwanese iPhone unlocked by default

12/15, 9:40am

Taiwanese iPhone unlocked

Buyers of the Taiwanese iPhone will find it unlocked, reports say. Although the phone's official carrier in the country -- Chunghwa Telecom -- has in the past insisted that the phone would only work on its network, in practice, the new iPhone will accept SIM cards from other carriers' networks without any hardware or software hacks. The only tradeoff, users say, is that Chunghwa's Hami services become inaccessible.