Beatlemania could sweep the charts again later this year -- with every song in the top 10 from the Fab Four. Bookmakers in England are offering odds of just 10-to-1 that the entire top 10 will be made up of Beatles songs when they are released to download via Internet sites such as iTunes for the first time. Up until now, the Beatles have been the most prominent holdout from the download revolution. On Monday, London-based Apple Corps -- guardian of The Beatles' commercial interests -- settled a long-running dispute with Apple Inc., the firm behind the iTunes revolution.
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Mac users looking to install Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system need to check the fine print: The less expensive Home Basic and Home Premium versions are not authorized for use in virtual machine applications like Parallels Desktop. To stay compliant with Microsoft's licensing, you'll have to spring for the more expensive Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate. The price difference between Vista Home Basic at $199 and Enterprise at $299 has some calling this a "Mac tax."
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In the low-tech 1980s -- when Apple was foremost a fruit and iPod just a jumble of letters -- Scott Sailor cruised to college classes with a portable tape recorder playing on the seat of his classic white Mustang. Over and over, he listened to minicassettes he had made of his chemistry professor's lectures. The course was hard, and Sailor needed to soak up the knowledge his recorder spit out. Now a few professors at Fresno (Calif.) State University -- Sailor included -- are recording their classroom lectures on digital devices.
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The vow Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs -- that he would willingly remove copyright protection from songs sold at his company's iTunes store -- was cheered by those who've been arguing that digital rights management systems are a failure. Advocates for music-sharing freedom said they expect music labels will eventually abandon the practice, but they doubted the movie industry would follow suit by removing DRM from DVDs, HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
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Steve Jobs's open letter against DRM blames the recording labels for the copy protection embedded in digital music tracks. Should the labels ever agree to distribute online music without copy protection, that would translate into a win for the iPod, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. The open letter from the Apple CEO was posted on the company Web site on Tuesday, and is generally assumed to be a response to copy-protection demands from European countries.
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