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Are you on iTunes yet? If you’re not, you might soon be in a category by yourself. Today Apple reported that its online music store, iTunes, has completely blown away all other competition. Since launching the iTunes Music Store, Apple has sold over 250 million songs. But Apple has taken this success global. Once limited …
Here are the 2 big highlights of what was announced today at MacWorld: iPod Shuffle: New tiny iPod (smaller than most packs of gum), no screen, weighs under 1 ounce. Cap on the bottom, USB 2. 12 hour rechargeable battery. PC/Mac. Looks about the size of a flash key drive. 2 models: 512MB for $99 …
TiVo's new portable video service called TiVoToGo will give users the ability to transfer their recorded shows to PCs or laptops and take them on the road. Unfortunately for Mac users, TiVoToGo is not currently compatible with Apple computers.
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Now you can find out as soon as songs from your favorite recording artists debut on the iTunes Store. Sign up for an Artist Alert, a new Music Store service, and Apple will send you an email letting you know when a single or album from an artist whose work you fancy appears on the …
Stand back and make way for the enormous sounds of Powderfinger. These veteran Aussie rockers strut through your iTunes free Single of the Week, “Stumblin’,” from their latest album, “Vulture Street.” The track’s guitar pyrotechnics and brazen vocals ride its rumbling bass and windmill drumming – watch out for the intense fuzz-box guitar solo. Download …
To celebrate the new iTunes PayPal partnership, Apple is giving away 2.5 million songs to customers who connect their PayPal accounts to iTunes.
For many parents, there is no way getting around it: Their kids must have an iPod this year. Some schools like Brearley are even requiring it! The 20-gigabyte iPod required by the school sells for $299 at stores but was made available to students for $269 through Brearley with Apple’s education discount. Though the discounts …
O’Ryan, the velvety-voiced heir apparent to Usher’s R&B kingdom, has released his self-titled debut album. The iTunes Free Single, “Jus Anotha Shorty,” is a grinding proclamation of love showcasing O’Ryan’s slick vocals skills. The up-and-comer nods to “Frontin'” from Pharrell and Jay-Z in the chorus and counts his brothers, Marques Houston and Omarion, as influences. …
“Rumors are circulating that during Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld on January 11, Apple will announce that it has signed a deal with one of the satellite radio companies, Sirius, to market iPods that can receive and record that company’s satellite broadcasts.” [Via orbitcast.com] iPod with Satellite Radio! Although a combination of technologies would be …
The new findings boasted that brand maturity is something of non-relevance. Simply because over 79% age 12 and older knew of Napster or have even used the legal downloading music service. More than half knew of or used Apple’s iTunes Music Store, another brand strong identifier in the still youthful digital music market. This goes …
Artists are looking at file-sharing technology as a new way to reach their fans.
Five years later, now heading San Francisco-based Snocap Inc., Fanning is touting a new technology designed to help the music companies who once sued him into submission cash in on file-sharing between computer users, also known as peer-to-peer. Shawn Fanning is once again trying to force the old corporate brains in the music industry to …
Thinking about getting a free iPod from FreeiPods.com? Think again. You will pay for that iPod for years to come by giving up your personal information to spammers.
Songs in the Canadian version of iTunes sell for $0.99 Canadian cents, or about $0.83 U.S. That's 16% cheaper than the American iTunes.
The new Sony Walkman NW-HD1 comes in five colors, plays 2.5 times longer on one battery charge than iPod's 12 hours, and can contain 10,000 to 13,000 songs, at least twice as many as an iPod because of ATRAC's better compression technology. But will consumers embrace it?
Oh no! Looks like the sh*t has hit Kazaa. According to Tony Bannon, an attorney for the music industry at the Kazaa trial currently taking place in Australia, “Kazaa is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of a magnitude never before seen.” Bannon made this statement during Monday’s start of the Australian trial …
