Tag archive: harmony software

When Palm launched its new pre smartphone earlier this month, one of the phone's many advertised features is its ability to sync media with Apple's iTunes software. That's right: when you pop a pre onto a computer, iTunes seems to magically see (and treat) it like an iPod music player, enabling users to sync music, podcasts, video, and more to the device as if it were one of Apple's own. The feature raised eyebrows… Read More

On Monday, RealNetworks announced a public beta of their Harmony software, a technology that allows consumers to listen to legally downloaded, digitally protected music on 100′s of portable devices, including Apple's popular iPod. The significance of this announcement is that before Harmony, there was no way of playing, for instance, music downloaded from Real's Music Store on an iPod. Apple responded to that… Read More