Tag archive: Apple iTunes

Released on Friday of last week, iTunes 10.5 Beta 9 contains a section of code that alludes to app rentals. Possibly part of tomorrow's Apple presentation around the new iPhone, customers on iTunes may soon be able to rent apps through the App Store. The code makes references to timed rental periods and apps would likely be automatically removed from the iOS device once the rental period expires. This is very similar to digital rental… Read More

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its forthcoming 7-inch touchscreen PlayBook tablet will include a digital music store intended to compete with Apple's iTunes. The pre-loaded music service is the result of a partnership with British company 7Digital. The 7Digital music store will offer 320kbps MP3s and access to about 13 million songs from labels including Warner, Universal, EMI, and Sony. The store will operate… Read More

A few short hours after debuting, the browser that was supposed to bring flash video to iPhones around the world mysteriously disappeared from the iTunes App Store. The developer stated that the Skyfire browser had “sold out of inventory” shortly after becoming the top grossing app on iTunes. Suspicions immediately centered on Apple who could conceivably be a bit put off by someone designing a work around to Apple's… Read More

It’s been rumored for months and now the change seems to be imminent: Apple will expand the preview length of songs in iTunes from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. It’s been reported that Apple has begun to inform music labels of the change and the longer clips will begin appearing in iTunes sometime in the near future. The decision was revealed in a letter to record labels posted on MacRumors. It’s not clear if the decision to lengthen the previews… Read More

With new iPods comes a new iTunes, and if Apple’s media monolith hasn’t been bugging you to update yet, just wait. But the big 1-0 does come with some pretty serious revisions. Here’s what’s new in iTunes 10.

Apple's iTunes service has been offering television episodes for sale for $1.99 each for some time now, but as competition from services like Hulu enable free access to many popular show—and on-demand offerings from cable and satellite providers offer greater amounts of content—Apple is under increasing pressure to increase the appeal of shows available through iTunes. Now, Bloomberg reports that three separate courses… Read More

According to a story which TheNextWeb broke over the holiday weekend, hundreds, if not thousands of iTunes accounts have been hacked over the holiday weekend, and a variety of methods used to ring up hundreds of dollars in fraudulent iTunes app store and music charges. One developer, Thuat Nguyen, used the stolen accounts to apparently propel his apps to to filling 40 of the 50 top spots on the iTunes iBook section. The apps — mostly… Read More

We’re going to assume you already have iTunes installed and have added your music to the iTunes library. If you need help with importing your music then check out Apple’s tutorial. The first thing you need to do is create a new playlist that includes all the tracks you want to burn to your blank CD. To do this go to “File,” and select “New Playlist.” iTunes will create a box that says, “Untitled Playlist” and all you need to do is rename it to… Read More

About three and a half years ago, online auction giant eBay bought VoIP success story Skype for some $2.6 billion dollars, and espoused dreams of integrating Skype functionality into its ecommerce business so, say, buyers could call up sellers and get details on items before placing a bid, or maybe the company would hold online real-time voice auctions. To hear eBay talk, the possibilities for synergy were endless. Except…for the… Read More

There is a lot of speculation here in the Silicon Valley that Apple will be launching its low-cost netbook early in 2009, possibly to eclipse CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, next year. I figured it would be fun to imagine what an Apple netbook might look like and, given that a number of us are speculating that Google is on a similar path, contrast it with the anticipated Google offering. Think of this as an interesting, and relatively… Read More

We know it's shocking, but iTunes—and, dare we say it, the iPod—have become ubiquitous parts of some people's lives. But as folks upgrade computers, migrate to a bigger and better (or smaller and cooler) iPod, they're often left in a lurch trying to manage their music across multiple iTunes applications, multiple libraries, multiple computers, and multiple iPods. Smith Micro, current publishers of the venerable… Read More

Apple iTunes users take note: two separate announcements made today promise to bring some new video content to the online music store for purchase and download to a computer or iPod. NBC News looksto be bringing a variety of its programming to iTunes, while Cartoon Network and LucasFilm will make available the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated action adventure series.   Star Wars: CloneWars, said the Cartoon Network and Lucasfilm, will be made… Read More

Sondigo, the new consumer hardware brand of British Columbia based Networking Limited (LENL), earlier this week announced a new wireless media bridge designed to bring audio streaming over 802.11 networks. The new Sirocco Wireless Audio Bridge is priced at $139.99 and available now. The Sondigo Sirocco Wireless Audio Bridge, said the company, uses a consumer's existing 802.11g wireless network infrastructure to deliver reportedly 100… Read More

Discovery Communications, the company behind popular television networks like the Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel, today announced that programming content from their shows would begin being available online via the Apple iTunes Music Store. The cost of this content will, like other programming on iTunes, be $1.99 per episode for viewing on a computer or iPod. Over a dozen series and specials from Discovery Communications'… Read More

The Walt Disney Company yesterday announced that they'd made available the first 2006 episode of the "Official Disneyland Resort Podcast" series available for download from either the Apple iTunes Podcast Directory or an official Disneyland site. The monthly Disneyland podcast, said Disney, focuses this time around on the opening of the all-new attraction “Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!” at… Read More