New DRM, new ROKR, and something about Ballmer

Apple and Microsoft are collaborating to make an anti-p2p strategy. This involves making a new anti-file sharing DRM that will guarantee a level of copyright protection like no other. One such protection is when a track that is not sanctioned by the organized group is played on a digital music player like the iPod, a high-pitched scream at 250 decibes will emit from the earphones. Read more and learn about this new and exciting breakthrough against piracy.

After the flop called ROKR, Motorola tries again. This time they put iTunes in the upgraded version of the RAZR phone, the RAZR V3i. Aside from iTunes, the new RAZR boasts of a 1.23 megapixel camera and an expansion slot for the MicroSD memory card format. Will this new phone let Motorola sing a different tune? We'll just have to wait and see. Personally, if they didn't do anything to the number of SMS that can be stored, then forget it.

"Apple has been through the valley of the shadow of death." So says Steve Ballmer in an interview with CNet News. Nothing much going on here. Move along, monkey boy.