Apple to unveil new products at giant Macworld event

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Luke Ford

Newsweek reports:

Rip DVDs onto iTunes
The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is also hammering out a deal to license its FairPlay digital rights management scheme to Fox so users would be able to rip Fox DVDs onto iTunes a first for Apple, which has historically been nervous about compromising the integrity of its encryption. Taken together with Sony‘s new Amazon partnership, could this signal the coming end of DRM?

Ultrathin Laptops
One rumor that’s been impossible to shake is that the MacBook Pro could get an upgrade—or rather, downgrade. Don’t be surprised to see a thinner, lighter laptop with a 12-inch screen  released some time around February (in the $1700-$1800 range). The new machines—some are calling them—"subnotebooks"-will come with Intel inside, naturally.

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I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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