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NBC may have decided it can launch its new Fall seasons without the help of the iTunes store, but it appears the other networks are lining up for some free publicity. This week no fewer than 3 high-profile shows are offering their season premieres on iTunes for free. FOX is leading the way with 2 …
The new ReplayTV Personal HD system enables you to record broadcast TV and export video files to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night. The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists …
Were you one of the thousands of people who bought an iPhone (US) before Apple lowered the price by $200? Steve Jobs announced the iPhone price drop after he introduced the iPod Touch and angered a lot of customers. To placate iPhone owners, Jobs published an open letter on Apple.com where he offered a $100 …
Apple's new commercial for their 3rd generation iPod Nano features the upbeat and catchy 1234 song by Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…”—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities For the magazine industry, online is finally coming into its own, as the …
After lowering the price of the iPhone by $200, angry iPhone users started contacting Apple CEP Steve Jobs. They wanted a rebate... and they got it.
Apple unveiled its new line of iPods yesterday including a model with an iPhone-like touchscreen interface and Zune-like WiFi access. The “iPod Touch” sports a 3.5-inch widescreen and a Safari browser, creating a mobile YouTube delivery device that essentially replicates the iPhone browsing experience for non-AT&T subscribers. It’s going to run $299 for an 8 …
Steve Jobs wrote a rare "open letter" responding to angry iPhone customers. He's decided to give a $100 Apple Store credit to anyone who recently bought an iPhone.
Though it is not official, those in the “know” say Apple is just hours away from announcing a new WiFi iPod designed to receive digital streaming audio content with an option to buy media from the iTunes Store. It is not known whether the same functions will be included in the iPhone. WiFi iPod Rumors Other …
The News Corp./NBC Universal video portal finally has a name and a URL. The venture’s new CEO Jason Kilar writes they picked the moniker Hulu because it is “short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce and it rhymes with itself.” (Hulu means “feather/plumage” or “choice and precious” in Hawaiian, so perhaps it’s also a sly …
UPDATE: YouTube has reworked their site in response to this article. If you get an error when trying to download a YouTube video, please try some of the plug-ins and scripts listed in step #3. YouTube.com is a great resource. Not many sites allows users to freely upload, view, and share video clips like YouTube …
After checking our referral traffic today we noticed a boost in visitors coming from Davis Freeberg’s “Digital Connection” blog. Apparently Freeberg liked our article about Apple rejecting iPod engravings. Although Davis said MethodShop wasn’t a “useful site” but he at least he still thought we were “entertaining.” Thanks Davis, we’ll take that as a compliment. Special …
The presidential election is 14 months away and with as many as 17 candidates now running, U.S. television and radio broadcasters are elated at the prospect of billions more in advertising dollars. Many states have set their 2008 nominating contests for earlier than ever, forcing candidates to spend millions on ads sooner as they fight …
Recorded music bootlegging denies the U.S. economy more than $12 billion in revenues and 71,000 new jobs each year, according to a new report.“The True Cost of Sound Recording Piracy to the U.S. Economy,” released Tuesday by the Institute for Policy Innovation, is an estimate of income and employment not realized as a direct result …
YouTube did not claim to invent the video overlay ad concept. They obviously just liked it enough to steal it from VideoEgg. I guess Google's strategy is, if you can't out-innovate your competitors, then steal from them.
Wish you could free your iTunes Library from your computer and take it with you in your pocket? GetUSB.info put together an excellent tutorial on how to run a mobile iTunes Library from a USB stick or hard drive. This method will run the entire iTunes application from the storage device, making it easy to …
