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First came the songs, then music videos and TV shows, and now Apple may be bringing movies to your home computer or video iPod. Apple took the first step on Tuesday by making the Disney Channel original film “High School Musical” available for a $9.99 download price. The made-for-TV movie is already widely popular among …
As a computer-generated news site, Google News doesn’t have a sense of humor — or much sense at all, bloggers have discovered. By posting made-up articles on I-Newswire, a free press-release posting service, pranksters have discovered an easy way to get just about anything in the news. It started when Richard Wiggins, an Internet news …
Apple has initiated a new program for companies wishing to buy large quantities of iPods. Options available include a custom logo and/or text engraving, iTunes Music Cards, and any desired combinations of shuffles, nanos, and iPods. Screw the lame office Christmas party. Now good workers have a little more incentive to put in all those …
According to Mindjack.com, Broadcast TV died on October 18th, 2004. So what’s so special about that date? That evening, the Sci-Fi Channel’s remake of Battlestar Galactica premiered on the SkyOne channel in the UK. It wasn’t slated to air in the US until January 2005. NBC Universal, the company that produces the show, wanted to …
Charles Wolf, an analyst for Needham & Co, believes Apple is in position to achieve a massive growth in its marketshare. Apple currently only has about 5-6% marketshare of personal computers. But thanks to the popularity of the iPod, consumers are very ready to make the switch. Wolf’s research suggests that consumers and others may …
According to the Silicon Business Journal, ever-expanding Apple Computer Inc. has acquired an impressively equipped but never-used data center in Newark, CA for an estimated $45 million. Newark, California is the East Bay of Silicon Valley. What does this data center mean? Why would Apple purchase a $50 million dollar data center? Acquiring a data …
The speculation is over. Those of us expecting touch-screen iPods, PDAs, Apple phones or even an Apple TiVo were left a little disappointed. Taking the stage at today’s announcement, CEO Steve Jobs said, “We’ve got some fun things to introduce today. Sort of medium-scale things.” As soon as Jobs said “medium-scale things” I knew everyone …
For those of you living outside a major U.S. city, you may not be familiar with a little newspaper called The Onion. It’s a topical satire newspaper only distributed free in big cities like Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Although you may not be able to hold a physical copy of The Onion newspaper …
Cult of Mac blogger, Leander Kahney, found a suspicious looking photo on MacDailyNews. This “suspicious” image might shed some light on the invitation Apple sent to journalists and analysts Tuesday morning for a Feb. 28 event. The following vague phrase was printed on the invitations: “Come see some fun new products from Apple.” Most of …
NBC is offering the pilot episode of its new legal drama Conviction for free on the iTunes Music Store nearly two weeks before the show makes its network series premiere. Conviction, the latest drama from Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order, takes a provocative look at the lives of New York Assistant District …
With the pornographic industry clamoring to tout their wares on your microscopic iPod screens, it was never going to be long before dear old Hugh and his Playboy empire got in on the act. Our friends over at iPastudio.com sent us a link to the Playboy Bodcast, a downloadable podcast containing specific content from Playboy.com …
Apple previously announced that they would be selling iPods at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan, and now we have the first photo. The display includes the 1 GB Shuffle, 2 GB and 4 GB Nano, and a 30 GB Video iPod, along with some iTunes Music Store gift cards. It is kind of funny to …
The iPod nano is now shipping in a smaller, cheaper version. Available immediately is a 1 Gigabyte model for $150, Apple said in a release. This is a great deal. The nano is a fully functional iPod and a gorgeous piece of electronic jewelery. With a fabulous little color screen, the 1 gigabyte iPod Nano …
German car company, BMW, was reportedly using doorway pages to artificially boost their search engine rank on Google. However, the big “G” found out and gave BMW the search rank of death, zero. So what is a “doorway” page and why was Google upset about BMW using them? A doorway, or gateway page, is a …
America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start charging companies a penny per email to guarantee that they bypass spam filters and get delivered. Think of it like VIP junk mail. In exchange for paying, email senders will be guaranteed their messages will not be filtered …
Did you hear the one about stand-up comedians becoming a major hit on iTunes? That’s actually not a joke. MTV Networks has been surprised to discover that low-profile stand-up specials from its Comedy Central channel are outperforming better-known franchises. Armed with this knowledge, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict the next get-rich-quick scheme …
