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| Thread ID: 60835 | 2005-08-14 12:49:00 | Microsoft Patents iPod | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 381120 | 2005-08-14 12:49:00 | Apple has had their patent for the iPod rejected because of a pre-exiting patent on the technology - by Microsoft. Yes, that's right, as reported in this article (www.techweb.com) from TechWeb. It will be interesting to see how this will pan out. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 381121 | 2005-08-14 23:19:00 | *waiting for the .ogg player* | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 381122 | 2005-08-15 02:35:00 | Somebody told me you can play .ogg's on it if you're running linux on your iPod You can view pictures, so one would assume OGG playback is possible |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 381123 | 2005-08-15 02:38:00 | .ogg will play with ipodlinux, but last time I looked it won't play in realtime. There are other ogg players out there though. |
Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 381124 | 2005-08-15 03:40:00 | Good one, Vinny. I like this part... Apple won't take the matter lying down. "Apple invented and publicly released the iPod interface before the Microsoft patent application cited by the (patent) examiner was filed," said an Apple spokesperson in a statement. Apple also noted that the firm has received other patents for technology relating to the iPod and in addition has other patents pending on the iPod. The documents in the Patent Office do not mention the iPod by name. The documents describe a "portable, pocked-sized multimedia asset player" that can manipulate MP3 music files. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 381125 | 2005-08-15 03:45:00 | why do you want a .ogg player? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 381126 | 2005-08-15 04:19:00 | inlike MP3 Ogg is an open source royalty free codec and has a slightly better compression quality than MP3 | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 381127 | 2005-08-15 07:06:00 | Slightly? Waaay better! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 381128 | 2005-08-15 07:53:00 | why do you want a .ogg player?Apart from sharing the view that .ogg's are better, all the music on flaptop is encoded as .ogg's because i wanted maximum use of minamal space. This does create problems if i transfer the files to an mp3 player. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 381129 | 2005-08-15 08:21:00 | i see now, thanks for the explaination. | Prescott (11) | ||
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