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Thursday, 18 August 2005 |
MP3 users hearing damage warning
4 Hearing
Loss - New York,NY,USA
The surge in sales of iPods and other portable music players in recent
years could mean many more people will develop hearing loss, experts fear.
If the volume through headphones is too high, there is a real risk of permanent
damage to hearing, they say.
Sydney's National Acoustic Laboratories found a quarter of personal music system
users in a random sample listened to music at dangerous volumes.
The Royal National Institute for Deaf people urged awareness of the risks.
Millions now own MP3 players - Apple has sold more than 20 million iPods.
A recent study by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) found 39%
of 18 to 24-year-olds listened to personal music players for at least an hour
every day and 42% admitted they thought they had the volume too high.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Wednesday, 17 August 2005 |
Portal
shuts MP3 search over copyright fears
Silicon.com - UK
One of China's biggest internet portals has shut down its MP3 search
facility over fears it may be held responsible for copyright violations incurred
by file-sharers offering music via the portal.
The NetEase portal took the decision to shut down the service earlier this week
saying it wants to discourage users from download illegal music, according to
reports.
NetEase is also concerned that it could be held indirectly responsible for
copyright violations - although the portal doesn't sell music downloads, users
have been using its search facility to locate and access illegal music files.
With most music available online in China now illegal, NetEase considers it has
contributed to violations of intellectual property "to a certain degree",
according to the Financial Times.
The MP3 search facility will remain offline until NetEase has found a way to
offer content without infringing on the rights of those in the music industry,
the paper added.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
Criminals Use
MP3 Players for Data Storage
Newhouse News Service (NNS) - USA
When London police raided the homes of a gang of suspected car thieves
last year, they were surprised to find forged sale documents, bogus bank
statements and other incriminating materials -- all stored on an iPod.
To some computer security experts, the incident sent a message: Portable digital
music players can no longer be regarded simply as entertainment machines. Those
experts are urging law enforcement officials to better learn how criminals can
obtain and conceal vast quantities of information using the devices.
Palm-sized MP3 players -- the best-known is Apple Computer's iPod, but dozens of
brands are available -- can hold any type of file, not just downloaded music.
Some are capable of storing up to 60 gigabytes of information, the equivalent of
15,000 songs or 25,000 photographs.
"We want to get word out that these are great devices -- I've got three of them
-- but they're going to get perverted and used in ways that we haven't thought
of before," said Marcus Rogers, a Purdue University computer technology
professor and researcher at the school's Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security. "The bad guys are creative."Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
Survey finds users
don't want MP3 mobile phones
Pocket-lint.co.uk - UK
Mobile phone manufacturers and operators from Sony Ericsson to Orange are
spending millions of pounds making the latest mobile phones capable of becoming
MP3 players in their own right. Yet findings in a recent survey on gadget, gear
and gizmo website Pocket-lint.co.uk suggest they might be wasting their money.
In the survey, which asked whether readers listened to MP3s on their mobile
phone and if no, would it something they would consider doing, a whopping 72% of
entrants said that even if they had the chance to listen to their favourite
tracks on their mobile, they wouldn’t bother.
Over three-quarters (77%) of the entrants that took the survey said that they
don't currently listen to music on their phone with only 23% admitting that they
do.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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