One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 30 June 2005

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iTunes Podcast subscriptions top 1 million

Apple announced on Thursday that Podcast subscriptions through its iTunes Music application topped 1 million, just two days after the release. With the new version of iTunes released on Tuesday, users can subscribe to over 3,000 free podcasts and have each new episode automatically delivered over the Internet to their computer and iPod. Industry analysts and Pocasters alike have cheered Apple’s release of iTunes and its move into the Podcasting space.
[Via MacCentral]

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Existing Motorola handsets talking to iTunes 4.9 (image)
The first Motorola cell phone built specifically for iTunes may still be a few weeks away, but in the interim iTunes users have discovered that some of the company's existing handsets are already willing to communicate with the latest version of Apple's jukebox software.
[Via AppleInsider]

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Flickr in the US

A couple of days ago Ben Hammersley was noting that difference between the Internet and the Internet in the US. While there's plenty of "warm and cheap places" where developers could write all the software they want, sometime our rights might change when a company moves. Check out this interesting post by Tris Hussey (via Strange Attractor) about Flickr moving their services from Canada to the US.

Under the Patriot Act, the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and compel Yahoo/Flickr to open up the data doors to them on the basis of "national security" or that a "person of interest" has photos there. They don't need a warrant. Yahoo/Flickr will not be able by law to inform you that this has happened, going to happen, etc.

And it goes beyond this. Given the right-wing politics of the day, how long will it be before Yahoo is forced to close or restrict the tags "nude" and "erotic"? This would not happen in Canada.

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Bravo. Just days after Canada become the 3rd country to do so.

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Maybe if you tell the same lie over and over and over and over again people start to catch on.

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Canadians are watching less television, but what they do watch is increasingly from Canadian broadcasters, according to a new report from the CRTC. FULL STORY
[Via CBC News]

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News: Bluetooth group offers security tips to avoid attacks

Bluetooth users are urged to follow several precautions to avoid hacker attacks.
[Via MacCentral]

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News: Apple earns cheers from analysts, podcasters

Apple released iTunes 4.9 yesterday, with built in support for podcasting. Log in, click on a podcast, and it‘s automatically downloaded to iTunes, and synced with your iPod. Playlist talked to industry analysts and podcasters to find out what the change means.
[Via MacCentral]