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DECE gets some new members for its league of extraordinary DRM — still no Apple
DECE gets some new members for its league of extraordinary DRM — still no Apple
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium attempting to set new standards for the transfer and storage of copyrighted digital content, announced that six new members signed on board today at CES. Deluxe, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung, MOD Systems, Sonic ...
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
crave.cnet.co.uk — Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free , and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means... files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living ... (more) iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know
Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors
eff.org — At this week's Macworld Expo, Apple announced that by April, music from the iTunes Store will no... longer be shackled by digital rights management (DRM). Finally, DRM is good and fully dead for digital music -- gone from CDs, gone from downloads, and ... (more) Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors
CES 2009: iPhone may get GPGPU acceleration
tgdaily.com — Imagination Technologies will announce a new version of its graphics chip IP tomorrow. The PowerVR SGX543 is... the firm's first multi-core capable GPU technology which scales to, in theory, an unlimited number of cores and offer support for GPGPU ... (more) CES 2009: iPhone may get GPGPU acceleration
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NewTeeVee — ... DECE Adds Six New Members; Panasonic, Samsung, MOD Systems among those joining the digital copyright consortium, but the group still lacks Apple’s participation. (VentureBeat) ...

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