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<h6>Beware Country-Specific iTunes Stores</h6>
<p><p>If you buy an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and you happen to be a user of the iTunes Store in more than one country, take note which country's store you're viewing in iTunes when you plug in the device for the first time. This will be the country the device will register with, and you will be forever barred from purchasing or even updating free apps from anywhere else. The only way out is to delete everything on the device and do a full restore.</p></p>
<a href="/article/8938"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8938', 'show')">More on Apple/EMI and DRM-Free Music</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8938" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8938">[Editor's Note: We weren't able to touch base with Editor-at-Large Geoff Duncan in time for last week's "Apple and EMI Offer DRM-Free Music via iTunes" (2007-04-02), but his extensive experience in the recording industry makes his commentary essential reading for anyone following the situation</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8751"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8751', 'show')">Of the Zune, DRM, and Universal Music</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8751" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8751">Microsoft's Zune portable media player goes on sale in the United States tomorrow, marking the company's first entry in a market dominated for five years (and counting) by Apple's now-iconic iPods</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 13 Nov 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8657"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8657', 'show')">The More Things Change...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8657" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8657">Way back in 1994, Adam and Tonya graciously welcomed me to the TidBITS community by bringing me on board as TidBITS's managing editor. Now after more than 5,000 articles, almost 600 issues, and nearly twelve years, it's time to bid a fond farewell: this piece marks my final appearance in TidBITS as a regular staff member.
I realize many readers have only a fuzzy idea of my roles at TidBITS over the years - or no idea at all</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 28 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8654"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8654', 'show')">Apple Settles with Creative for $100 Million</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8654" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8654">Removing a dark cloud from the future of its now-iconic iPod music players, Apple Computer has announced it will pay Creative Technologies $100 million to settle all legal disputes between the companies</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 28 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8645"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8645', 'show')">Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Batteries</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8645" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8645">In what may turn out to be one of the largest consumer electronics product recalls in history, computer maker Dell is voluntarily recalling some 4.1 million batteries sold with a wide range of its notebook systems over a more-than-two-year period ranging from 01-Apr-04 through 18-Jul-06</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 21 Aug 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8644" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8644">Much of the recent talk of running non-Macintosh operating systems on Apple's new breed of Intel-based Macs has focused on virtualization solutions like Parallels Desktop (see "Parallels Desktop: The Switch is Complete") and VMware's as-yet-unreleased product (see "More, Less, and No Information on Running Windows on a Mac"), but let's not forget the product announcement that started the ball rolling officially: Apple Computer's Boot Camp (see "Apple Opens Boot Camp for Windows Users"), which enables Intel-based Macs to restart running Windows XP and is scheduled to be included in some way with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Apple last week released version 1.1 of its public beta of Boot Camp, adding support for Apple's brand-new Xeon-based Mac Pro and Xserve systems, adding partition p</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 21 Aug 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8535"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8535', 'show')">Creative Hits Apple With iPod Patent Suit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8535" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8535">Creative Labs, the company that has been struggling in the digital music player market longer than Apple has been making iPods, announced it has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple Computer over the interface to its iPod and iPod nano music players.Creative claims Apple's products infringe on its "Zen" patent (U.S</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 22 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8526"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8526', 'show')">Fox TV Shows Hit iTunes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8526" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8526">Fox TV Shows Hit iTunes -- In the largest single network debut to date, Apple has added another passel of television programming to its iTunes Music Store, this time from Fox Entertainment</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8528"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8528', 'show')">The War Over Neutrality</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8528" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8528">In recent weeks a great deal of ink and pixels have been spent on the topic network neutrality. As set out by pundits and some of the mass media, a major battle is brewing between the big-money telecommunications companies who build the networks which comprise the Internet, and the big-money technology companies whose businesses depend on the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 15 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8518"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8518', 'show')">Not Guilty: Apple Beats Beatles Trademark Dispute</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8518" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8518">Justice Edward Mann of London's High Court today issued a ruling in favor of Apple Computer in its current trademark dispute with the Beatles' record label Apple Corps, finding Apple Computer had not breached a trademark-sharing agreement between the two companies by using its Apple logo on its iTunes digital music service.Getting Better -- According to the 1991 agreement, Apple Computer was to have use of the trademark in the computer business, while Apple Corps would have exclusive use in the music industry</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8508"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8508', 'show')">Apple to "Take Back" Macs for Recycling</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8508" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8508">Apple has announced it is expanding its technology recycling program: beginning in June 2006, Apple will offer free recycling and disposal of old computers to U.S</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8487"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8487', 'show')">iPod Update Offers Maximum Volume Setting</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8487" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8487">Apple has released a software update which, along with fixing a handful of bugs, enables users to set a maximum volume limit for their iPods. The 28 MB update supports both Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000, but applies only to Apple's fifth-generation video-capable iPods and the iPod nano.After installing the update, users can configure a maximum volume setting for their iPod: once set, the iPod displays a padlock icon when it reaches the configured top volume</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8476"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8476', 'show')">Apple Converts Xserves from PowerPC to AMD</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8476" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8476">When Apple announced in June 2005 it was planning to transition its Macintosh computer line to Intel-based processors, the entire Apple community was aghast: a move away from PowerPC would be a historic turning point for the company and its flagship computers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8471"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8471', 'show')">Carry That Weight: Apple Versus Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8471" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8471">This week, Steve Jobs's Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps are scheduled to go to trial in England, marking a new phase in a trademark dispute which has clung to both companies for more than a quarter century</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 27 Mar 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8436" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8436">A potentially critical security flaw has been uncovered in Apple's Safari Web browser, which may enable attackers to execute arbitrary Unix shell scripts on a user's machine simply by following a link on a Web site</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 27 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8404"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8404', 'show')">It's a Small World, After All</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8404" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8404">The Walt Disney Company announced last week that it will be acquiring animation house Pixar in a $7.4 billion all-stock transaction (a nice return on Steve Jobs's original $10 million investment when he purchased Pixar from filmmaker George Lucas in 1986)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 30 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8398"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8398', 'show')">Apple Posts $565 Million Q1 2006 Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8398" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8398">Well, it's official: Apple is no longer a computer company.Apple posted its first quarter 2006 financial results last week, with revenue of $5.75 billion and a profit of $565 million for the quarter</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8383"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8383', 'show')">Internet Explorer Officially Fades Away</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8383" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8383">Although Apple's introduction of Safari caused Microsoft to put the Mac version of its Internet Explorer Web browser into "maintenance mode" way back in June 2003 - ceasing development while pledging to make bug fixes or patch security loopholes in the even-then-aging browser - Internet Explorer on the Mac has now officially come to the end of its life cycle</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 09 Jan 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8345" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8345">RealNetworks today announced Rhapsody.com, a beta launch of a browser-based version of its Rhapsody streaming music subscription service for broadband users in the United States</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 05 Dec 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8304"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8304', 'show')">iTunes Music Store Sells Over 1 Million Videos</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8304" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8304">iTunes Music Store Sells Over 1 Million Videos -- Less than 20 days after unveiling new video-capable iPods and announcing Apple would begin selling music videos, short films, and selected ad-free ABC television episodes for $1.99 apiece, Apple says it has already sold more than 1 million videos through its iTunes Music Store</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 31 Oct 2005</div></div>
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