Thursday - July 2, 2009
After the raging blog activity surrounding the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 and the new iPhone 3GS, the Apple-focused blogosphere has finally slowed down to catch its collective breath. Still, there's plenty to talk about, like Michael Jackson music sales going through the roof on iTunes, CEO Steve Jobs returning to Apple's Cupertino campus, the Mac mini's relatively high build cost, and MacBooks selling like text books in Maine. "Michael Jackson is likely make more money in death than he ever did in life -- the Elvis effect," writes Cult of Mac blogger Leander Kahney.
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Tuesday - June 16, 2009
Virgin Media, the cable TV operator owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, launched a new kind of music download subscription service Monday with Universal, the world's largest music company. The service, described by the companies as a world first, will allow Virgin Media's broadband customers in Britain to stream and download as many songs and albums as they like from Universal's catalog for a fee.
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Monday - June 8, 2009
Gabriel Adiv is a music lover. Like many music lovers who manage their digital music in iTunes, he once bemoaned how labor-intensive that could be. Unlike many music lovers, though, he decided to do something about it. Adiv, with his sidekick Raza Zaidi, founded San Francisco-based TuneUp Media in 2007, and a year later, their company introduced an iTunes plug-in by the same name.
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Thursday - May 28, 2009
Stockholm-based Spotify is still trying to navigate a maze of licensing obstacles before it can launch a U.S. version of its much-hyped desktop streaming music application. Yet its developers showed how they've been keeping busy Wednesday with an Android smartphone app demonstration during the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
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Tuesday - April 28, 2009
A discussion about open source technology on the tech forum site run by Virgina-based
OdioWorks is pitting the defense of a First Amendment right -- namely, freedom of speech -- against enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the tech industry's legal guiding light for the past decade.
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Friday - April 10, 2009
Most of Apple's core products have seen some sort of refresh since last September, and it appears there aren't a whole lot left to update any time soon. Most recently, Apple unleashed Intel's Nehalem processors in its Xserve server line, which doubled the performance ... so, that's cool, but definitely cool for a limited audience of professional business users.
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Wednesday - April 8, 2009
Consumers have come to accept that songs can be purchased a la carte for 99 US cents via the Internet. That is a result, of course, of Apple's revolutionary introduction of the iPod music player and the iTunes music store several years ago. Before then, consumers had few options for downloading music onto digital music players -- and most of them were illegal.
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Monday - February 23, 2009
While the Apple iPhone and iPod touch App Store has been dominated by free and low-cost games, a new generation of applications maybe on the way: Music artists and entertainers with their own branded iPhone apps. A company called "Kyte" is riding the wave by supplying a framework through which developers can create these apps.
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Friday - February 13, 2009
Speculation, rumor and unnamed sources: They're often the three main food groups of Apple blog chatter, and this week was no exception. Reportedly, Apple retail stores are getting ready to undergo a software-focused makeover, and Apple will start storing customer movies in the cloud. Meanwhile, the $99 iPhone rumor/prediction just won't die.
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Friday - January 30, 2009
Speculation over an AT&T 3G-enabled MacBook fanned some flames in the Apple-minded blogosphere this week, as did Apple's and IBM's settlement over engineer Mark Papermaster. Also, most everyone seems pleased that Apple is finally letting iTunes customers upgrade their musical libraries one song at a time rather than all-at-once.
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