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While Apple didn't point any fingers, it's hard to believe the warning wasn't directed right at the Palm Pre, which shows up as an iPod when connected to iTunes and allows you to sync non-DRM media to the smartphone. Palm isn't taking it lying down and ...

zoom in and flip through facility, display of text messages at the bottom of the screen, combined messaging enabled by IM window of text based conversations, built-in camera and flash, music player, transfer of DRM-free iTunes music, podcasts, ...

And now that the iTunes Store sells DRM-free AAC tracks, those will also play natively on the Pre. Since the Pre works with Google Calendar and Contacts, you can export your Palm Desktop PIM data—or your local Outlook data—and then import it into ...

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And your DRM'ed iTunes songs won't make it over either, but your MP3 and DRM-free ones will. 7) Facebook and Google sync well. Not only does it have push Gmail, there's something called Synergy that grabs your Facebook and Google contacts and merges ...

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Last week, news broke that the Palm Pre is able to sync with iTunes, allowing for easy loading of DRM-free media. At the time, Apple DRM expert Jon Johansen surmised that the Pre must be emulating an iPod by transmitting Apple-specific vendor and ...

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As it turns out, Johansen knows quite a bit about how iPods and iTunes work together. In addition to reverse engineering CSS, he also developed software called QTFairUse that could strip the FairPlay DRM from iTunes tracks. And, his current company, ...

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In a little-noticed statement that accompanied his comments, Palm said that media sync is a feature of the Pre's WebOS that "synchronizes seamlessly with iTunes, giving you a simple and easy way to transfer DRM-free music, photos and videos to your ...

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The only key feature missing from what Palm has done is you cannot play DRM encrypted files. iTunes now gives you the ability to unlock all of your DRM'd files for 30 cents a song, and of course any CD's that you own and are ripping shouldn't be ... Palm Pre syncs with Apple's iTunes Cnet Asia

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They can do that easily, however, by dragging and dropping their DRM-free music from anywhere on their computer to any supported device. Palm doesn't need to use iTunes at all, and Rubinstein's claim, while admirable in its fair-use sentiments, ...

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 NY Simply connect Pre to your PC or Mac via the USB cable, select 'media sync' on the phone, and iTunes will launch on your computer desktop. You can then choose which DRM-free media files to transfer," the company says today in a press release. ...

By Darren Murph We'd already heard through the gravevine that iTunes support would be baked into Palm's forthcoming Pre, but now it's official. During Palm's D7 keynote today in Carlsbad, Paul Cousino showed attendees that non-DRM music, photos and videos could be synced with the Pre via iTunes (on Mac...

Apple has been under pressure by the EU for iTunes and DRM for a long time... now that Apple has removed most of it's DRM, the EU has sort of pulled their panties out of their crotch and moved back to Microsoft... but it is funny how Apple can do the ...

By Darren Murph There's been no direct confirmation just yet, but Fortune has it that Palm's hotly anticipated Pre actually syncs with iTunes. Yeah, iTunes. According to the report, the Pre works "seamlessly" with iTunes on a Mac, with the only notable limitation being that it can't handle older DRM-lac...

By Jesus Diaz The fact that the Pre can't reproduce protected ACC songs is not really that important. Even taking aside the fact that most people have MP3 libraries, iTunes Plus is DRM-free. The only important "but" is if Apple decides to change something in iTunes to make impossible for the Pre to synchr...