With iPods close to their ten year anniversary its been reported that the older iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle will be completely phased out. The announcement that the two models will be discontinued could be made at Apple’s headquarters tomorrow when the iPhone 5 is unveiled. The company says they are entering a ‘product transition’ [...]
Apple has recently won a World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) case over the domain name iPods.com. The case that Apple have won basically forces the present owner to transfer ownership of the domain iPods.com to the company for free. In the past Apple has paid out millions of dollars to buy domains such as icloud.com [...]
Last week Apple updated its website and added a ‘life cycle impact’ section which shows how their products are currently affecting the environment. The new section has a picture which splits the company’s emissions into categories which include those arising from manufacturing, (38%) product use, (53%) facilities, (3%) transportation (5%) and recycling. (1%) Also in [...]
People who listen to their MP3 players and iPods at very high levels for hours everyday have no idea that they could be damaging their hearing says EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Maglena Kuneva. Currently there are no European standards on the volume limit for mp3 players. In 2002 in France the Apple iPod was withdrawn [...]
