#Doubletwist palm pre android#
In a game of cat and mouse, Palm has since updated its operating system so the device can again be synchronised with Apple's player.ĭoubleTwist, however, allows devices as diverse as the Sony PSP, BlackBerry and the HTC G1, which uses Google's new Android platform, to synchronise with music stored in iTunes without having to break into iTunes itself, so it is not as easily kept out as Palm. Last month the Californian technology group released a new version of iTunes which effectively shut out rival handset manufacturer Palm after its Pre handset was able to sync with iTunes. It is not clear, since Apple fiercely protects the link between the iPhone and iPod and its iTunes music player. "iTunes is pretty good at what it does, but from a consumer perspective it doesn't do everything," Johansen told the Guardian in an interview earlier this year.
Since then, Johansen has turned his attentions to Apple's FairPlay digital rights management software in order to allow iTunes tracks to be played on any device. For his part in breaking the code, Johansen was arrested and charged in Norway with circumventing a computer security system without permission, before being acquitted by a court in Oslo. It uses technology developed by DoubleTwist, which is backed by Index Ventures and NorthZone Ventures - two venture firms whose records boast close links with Skype, Last.fm and streaming music service Spotify.ĭoubleTwist was co-founded by by Jon Lech Johansen, who is better known among the digerati by his alias DVD Jon after his success in cracking DVD copy protection technology in the late 1990s. The original INQ1 has won several awards for bringing internet applications to the mass mobile market since its release last year, but the new devices go further: allowing users to upload music and videos direct from iTunes.
#Doubletwist palm pre full#
INQ's two new 3G phones - the INQ Chat, which has a full keyboard, and INQ Mini - are aimed at the mass market and both allow users to access a host of applications including Twitter, Facebook and Skype as well as instant messaging and email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Google.
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