News Archive for 09/03/14

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Facebook Connect for iPhone debuts

03/14, 8:55pm

FB expands across apps

Facebook has announced Facebook Connect for the iPhone, which allows developers to add Facebook compatibility to a variety of iPhone apps. The new technology allows apps to share social information via Facebook across multiple platforms. Apps will be able to add Facebook's social aspects in differing ways. Facebook Connect will allow Urban Spoon and Movies by Flixster users to read and share reviews with Facebook friends. Who has the Biggest Brain will allow sharing scores of fellow Facebook users and a user's Facebook account can be used to locate friends using maps on Whrrl.

Shuffle's new hardware DRM taxes 3rd-party vendors

03/14, 8:20pm

Shuffle has DRM issues

Apple's new iPod Shuffle has added a new layer of hardware DRM, possibly preventing third-party companies from reverse-engineering the Shuffle technology in order to build headphones. Electronic Frontier and iLounge have discovered an Apple authentication chip DRM (Digital Right Management) requirement that will mean third-party headphone makers will have to pay fees for the authentication chip and design headphones with the chip included. The authentication chip provides a legal means to prevent headphone makers from reverse-engineering the Shuffle output to create a set of headphones that work with the new iPod. Apple could sue any companies that attempted such an effort for DCMA violations.