Quoted from Rockchick

Oh I was absolutely drooooling over the new Nano. But Apple has the nack of getting you to buy one of their products, then bringing out something even more drool-worthy!



(courtesy Apple.com.au)

Quoted from SuziH

Apple are going to make an announcement on the 31st about a next gen. iPod, rumour has it. The video capable one's are not good as the videos have trouble with synchronisation.

Quoted from antman

Can't wait for the next iPod What will it have? Internet browsing?  

Quoted from ElBarto

Aren't they GREAT. I,ve got a 512MB shuffle and the quality is supurb!! Is it me or do they get heavy when full??

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Apple have launched an investigation after British newspaper The Mail on Sunday claimed that some of its Chinese iPod factories force employees to work long hours in squalid conditions.

Steve Jobs' now prestigious brand has said it will not tolerate its supplier code-of-conduct being broken, and vowed to fully investigate the claims. The Mail's article accused the factories of enforcing 15-hour shifts and paying as little as £27 (around US$50) per month.

The worst factories alledgedly house and employ 100 people per dormitory and ban outsiders. Another, said to specialise in production of the iPod Shuffle pays only £54 (around US$100) per month with half of that earned spent on accomodation and food within the complex.

A brief glance at Apple's own supplier code-of-conduct reveals that the company are indeed very concerned about the rights of their labourers, but is this enough? Apple say 60 hours of work per-week is the maximum expected, yet this still adds up to 10-a-day based on the allowed 6 day working week.

Despite human rights and health and safety precautions the document does not specify a minimum wage for the workers.

Apple have reacted to the claims, and are investigating but surely it is entirely down to Apple to ensure that the measures they put in place are not breached in the first place. Until the investigation is complete, it is still unknown whether the paper's claims were true or not.

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French bill could put iPod on shaky ground

French lawmakers approved in a final vote on Friday a controversial law that threatens to break open the exclusive music format behind the Apple iPod.

Both the Senate and the National Assembly, France's lower house, voted in favour of the online copyright bill, which some analysts say could cause Apple Computer to pull its iTunes music store and iPod players from France.

The vote was the final legislative step before the bill becomes law - barring the success of a last-ditch constitutional challenge filed last week by the opposition Socialists.

The new law seeks to force companies such as Apple and Sony Corp to make their music players and online stores compatible with the download sites and players of rivals.

Currently, songs bought on iTunes can be played only on iPods, and an iPod can't play downloads from other stores that rival the extensive iTunes music catalogue from major artists and labels - such as Sony's Connect and Napster.

Apple described the copyright bill as "state-sponsored piracy" earlier this year, but a company spokesman was not immediately available to comment on Friday's vote.

In a statement issued after lawmakers hashed out the final compromise text last week, Apple said it hoped the market would be left to decide "which music players and online music stores are offered to consumers" - suggesting that the legislation could affect its presence in France.

The final compromise asserts that companies should share the required technical data with any rival that wants to offer compatible music players and online stores, but it tones down many of the tougher measures backed by lower-house lawmakers early on.

It also maintains a loophole introduced by senators, which could allow California-based Apple and others to dodge the data-sharing demands by striking new deals with record labels and artists.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tec.....1/1151174406493.html

Quoted from normangerman

Got my new Creative Vision M today

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lol nannyfan7 your so handsome and you got good taste in music  

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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has discovered the first virus designed to infect iPod portable media players. The virus, which has been named Podloso, is a proof of concept program which does not pose a real threat.

The virus is a file which can be launched and run on an iPod. It should be stressed that in order for the virus to function, Linux has to be installed on the iPod. If the virus is installed on the iPod by the user, the virus then installs itself to the folder which contains program demo versions. Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement.

Once launched, the virus scans the device’s hard disk and infects all executable .elf format files. Any attempt to launch these files will cause the virus to display a message on the screen which says "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus".

Podloso is a typical proof of concept virus, which is created in order to demonstrate that it is possible to infect a specific platform. It does not have a malicious payload and is unable to spread on its own: a user has to save the virus to the iPod for the device to become infected.