Apple presses pause on AppleTV roll-out
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Ship-date shifts to March Apple's AppleTV digital media player will not now ship until mid-March, a company spokeswoman has confirmed. The delay, the subject of much rumour-mongering over the last month or so, amounts to a set-back of a couple of weeks.â¦
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Apple has released a security fix for its QuickTime media player software, fixing a critical bug that had been worrying security experts for nearly a month.The update, released Wednesday, fixes a vulnerability in the RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) used by QuickTime to handle streaming media.On Jan. 10, researcher Luigi Auriemma disclosed the flaw by posting proof-of-concept attack code that could be used to run unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer. For the attack to work, the criminal would have to first trick the user into viewing a maliciously encoded QuickTime media file.With the attack code available, security researchers had been hoping that Apple would address the flaw. Wednesday&#39;s QuickTime 7.4.1 update is for both the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.It is Apple&#39;s fifth QuickTime update since October. The company has been forced to issue the flurry of patches as security researchers have taken a closer look at media player flaws during the past year. In December, Apple patched a separate RTSP vulnerability, which online criminals had already started to use in their attacks.&quot;In the past few months, QuickTime has been a prevalent target for security researchers,&quot; said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with nCircle Network Security. &quot;Internet media applications on the desktop have been a rich target for attackers, and this trend is sure to continue as most users aren&#39;t yet accustomed to attacks arriving in the form of a viral video.&quot;
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Apple informed customers who had ordered its new Apple TV entertainment device late Monday that it would miss its original target shipping date of February, instead promising delivery starting in mid-March.
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The software update for the Apple TV that was promised by Steve Jobs last month is now available.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple announced Wednesday that its promised software update to the Apple TV has been released; the update enables Apple TV users to watch video from the popular YouTube Web site. What's more, Apple revealed that when the iPhone ships on June 29, it will include a special YouTube viewing application too. YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the Web for watching user-generated video content; the site is owned by Google. The company has also reached content partnership deals with leading providers like CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, and others. The new Apple TV software, available for download through the Apple TV's software update feature, enables users to navigate YouTube to look for videos; YouTube members can log in to their accounts on Apple TV as well. YouTube is in the process of encoding videos using H.264, the advanced video codec built into QuickTime 7 that enables higher-quality video to be streamed over the Internet at lower bit rates. The iPhone will be the first mobile device to use those H.264-encoded videos, according to Apple. More than 10,000 videos are expected to be available in H.264 format on June 29; YouTube will be adding more each week, and the company will have its full catalog available in H.264 by this fall. Last weekend, YouTube somewhat surreptitiously launched its Mobile site at m.youtube.com. The site is xHTML-optimized for mobile phones, which must have built-in video streaming capabilities (RTSP/3GP with H263/AMR) to take advantage of it. It also supports video uploading from mobile phones via MMS. Gadget site Gizmodo just spent some time testing out the new site using two 3G phones over Sprint's EVDO network. Among their findings (which they chronicled in their own video that's now live on their site): * Videos must still be uploaded from the phone via SMS, not the site itself * Streamed videos can't be downloaded and saved * The large video files will be both a big drain on battery life and too big for the iPhone's EDGE network. InfoWorld blogger Stephanie Bruzzese contributed to this report.
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Apple's update to Mac OS X 10.4.10 last week is driving some users crazy from a new popping sound.
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Apple TV isn't going to add much to the iPod and Mac maker's riches, according to a market research company that took apart Apple Inc.'s newest gadget.
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What about digital rights management? Alongside the well-publicised launch of the iPhone, Apple has now pre-announced two of its major plays into the converging consumer digital media marketplace. The other was Apple TV, unveiled last year and available next month. Although pre-announcing is something of a departure for the company, it's clear Apple will be handily placed to deliver a seamless digital experience, going toe to toe with Microsoft and its integrated Xbox/IPTV combination.â¦
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Jax is a new utility that helps to extend iTunes and compatible devices like the iPod, iPhone and Apple TV.
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Come December, popular NBC shows like Battlestar Galactica and The Office will no longer be available through the iTunes Store, after NBC (the No. 1 supplier of digital videos to iTunes) decides not to renew its contract with Apple. The decision follows Universal music's shunning of the iTunes Store and announcement of the upcoming Hulu, NBC Universal's own stab at online television.
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Bows to OEM pressure to drop delayed soft AP feature
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Online content source too SanDisk is taking the fight to the Apple TV and the iTunes Music Store, launching this past Friday a video playback device that's connected to a telly, and a onlince content source to feed it with US TV programming.â¦
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Apple has tweaked the firmware for its AirPort Extreme Base Station, though it's not saying why.
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Blog: Steve Jobs introduces a new Apple TV feature: YouTube.
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A new software upgrade to Apple TV turns the device into a substantially different product.
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The release of Apple's TV set-top box 'is taking a few weeks longer than we projected,' the company says.
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MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. confirmed for MacCentral on Wednesday that the Canadian iTunes Music Store has been delayed. Company representatives declined to comment on a specific timeframe for the store, but said in a statement that it would be very soon.