Author: Aaron Zollo

Fox Releases More DVD’s with DRM for iTunes

Aug 29, 2008 | |

  There have been a few DVD’s released that have digital copies of the movie itself ready for use in iTunes. If you have not come across any, the reason is due to studios trying to maintain their hold on the content you already own.  Lately though the movie studios have realized we are going to rip the DVD’s if they don’t anyway.  The DVD’s now come with a digital copy, DRM protected that can be used in iTunes and moved to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV.  While this is a step in the right direction, DRM is definitely not.  

 

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New WiFi Standard 802.11r Gets Standardized

Aug 29, 2008 | |

  The current 802.11 standard was not intended to be used for devices to access or jump from access point to access point.  That is where 802.11r comes in.  The current standards for wifi "takes around 100ms to associate, and several seconds to re-establish authenticated connections using 802.1x. That will drop a voice call." The new standard improves connection and authentication speeds to 50ms which is quick enough to keep a voice conversation when using VOIP.

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