March 18th 2010
This is curious, at least amidst a massive publishing war with Amazon. According to the WSJ, Apple’s putting its massive newspaper-and-magazine-revival-on-the-iPad effort on the “backburner in favor of focusing on other content,” like its long-festering plan to bundle TV shows as a pseudo-subscription service through iTunes, as well as selling certain TV shows for a [...]
March 18th 2010
Tags: Caveat, Free Apps, Game Free, Iphone, Iphone Apps, Itunes, Keith Richards, Microsoft, Microsoft Game, Monster, Reunion Tour, Rolling Stones
March 18th 2010
Tags: Caveat, Free Apps, Iphone, Iphone Apps, Itunes, Keith Richards, Monster, Reunion Tour, Rolling Stones
March 16th 2010
Tags: Big Fat, Drive Space, Gb, God, Hard Drive, Itunes, Music Collection
March 15th 2010
When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. The company says that today Apple’s iTunes app store has over 140,000 applications in comparison to 60,000 apps available on the Facebook platform.
“Since the App Store launched in [...]
March 10th 2010
We’ve become so accustomed to cherry-picking individual songs that we see no reason to revert to buying music in pre-packaged bulk (read: albums). According to sources, lackluster iTunes LP figures have disappointed record labels who hoped the format would revitalize album sales.
According to GigaOM’s Paul Bonanos, industry sources don’t see iTunes LP as being “anywhere [...]
March 9th 2010
It’s been in the pipes for a month, and Street Fighter IV has finally, actually, seriously launched for the Apple iPod Touch and iPhone. Available for $9.99 in the iTunes App Store, Street Fighter IV isn’t something anyone really expected to be anything resembling playable. The platform isn’t what comes to mind when you think [...]
March 9th 2010
Tags: Followers, Iphone, Iphone Apps, Itunes, Premise, Tweet, Twitter, Zombies
March 9th 2010
Tags: Apple, Bust, Itunes, Mdash, Six Months
March 5th 2010
Tags: Advertising, Ambitions, Apple Ads, Cheap Tv, Embedded, Free Tv, Gawking, Itunes, Patent, Subscriptions, Tv Show, Tv Shows, Video Content, Watch Tv
March 5th 2010
Sony won’t put up with Apple’s aggressive expansion into its own turf anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Walkman maker is prepping new devices for 2010 that will take aim at Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Furthermore, Sony is gearing up to launch an iTunes-killer code-named Sony Online Service later this month in the US. [...]
March 4th 2010
Tags: Apple, Ebook Reader, Ipad, Itunes, Media Platform, Playstation, Psp, Sony, Sony Media, Sony Online, Sony Service, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Amazon, Apple Mp3, Apple Store, Itunes, Labels, Mdash, Mp3 Store, Rake, Surprise
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Apple Store, Computing, Itunes, Music
March 2nd 2010
Forget about iTunes, the Facebook behemoth is now after your credit card. The social networking giant is flexing its muscles as it preps to roll out Facebook Credits to users. In case you’ve missed it, Credits is Facebook’s new platform aimed squarely at your wallet. Imagine being able to exchange your hard earned cash for [...]
February 26th 2010
Apple’s iTunes Store sold its ten billionth song Thursday. Let me repeat: An online-only store has managed to move ten billion digital tracks thus far. If anyone had told you a few years ago that legitimate music downloading will soon measure in billions, you’d have called them insane.
But insanely great happens to be most projects [...]
February 25th 2010
Attention, classic JRPG fans! You can now grab both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II from the iTunes App Store for $9 apiece, complete with touch-friendly controls and bonus dungeons.
The…
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Tags: Amp, Apps, Bonus, Fans, Fantasy Final, Final Fantasy Ii, Iphone, Ipod Touch, Itunes
February 25th 2010
It took a little longer than we expected but it happened: 10,000,000,000 songs sold through iTunes. Crazy.
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Tags: Apple, Itunes
February 25th 2010
Apple’s iTunes Store sold its ten billionth song today, an important milestone that has taken nearly seven years to complete. Thanks to a rapidly accelerating sales curve, Apple should be able to sell the next ten billion songs by 2012.
A little after 4:30pm Eastern Time, just a few hours after we informed you that the [...]
February 24th 2010
The joy didn’t last long. According to an iPhone developer, the new “Explicit” option available this morning on the App Store submission software is now gone. He just got off the telephone with…
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Tags: Apple, Developer, Iphone, Itunes, Submission Software