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Doctors are often lauded as miracle workers, but even the most skilled have patients they can't help. Demetrios Leontaris keeps a picture of one on his cell phone organizer. Tapping at his keypad, he smiles as he pulls up a picture of the ill-fated patient: an iPod nano left badly bruised after being run over by a car. Though it still played, attempting to repair the casing could have broken the device.

This 'iPod Doctor' Makes House Calls

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When Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open letter entitled Thoughts on Music was posted on Apple's Web site last week, it stirred up a new round of controversy over digital rights management, the technologies used to prevent piracy of online digital music. Jobs' letter decried DRM technologies as ineffective against piracy, and suggested that DRM technologies should be abandoned.

Jobs' DRM Plea - a Win-Win for Apple

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Apple has denied rumors that its Apple TV set-top device will be delayed until March. A spokesperson for the company stated that it is business as usual for Apple TV. We are still planning to release Apple TV in February as announced, she said. Talk of a delay began to circulate after reports that Apple's internal plans involved holding Apple TV back until March.

Rumor: Apple TV Delayed Until March

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The boss at Yahoo Music, Dave Goldberg, thinks Apple CEO Steve Jobs got it right when he suggested that record labels should drop digital rights management in downloaded songs. When Yahoo experimented with DRM-free songs, music sales went up. He commented: I've long advocated removing DRM on music because there is already a lot of music available without DRM, and it just makes things complicated for the user.

Yahoo Music Chief Supports Jobs' DRM View

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If it's possible for a computer giant to tiptoe, Apple is trying gamely as it prepares for expansion into online video services in Europe. Luxembourg's economy minister, Jeannot Krecke, last month told a reporter Apple would locate its European iTunes video operations this spring in his country, a tiny, landlocked grand duchy that has attracted other e-commerce heavyweights.

Online Video: Apple's Fight in Europe

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Canada may have lost an earlier attempt to add a levy to memory sales to compensate for revenue lost to unauthorized music copying, but it hasn't given up. Now Canada's Private Copyright Collective is reportedly working to add a levy to memory cards, iPods, and other portable music players.

Canadian Group Pushes for iPod Tax