Posts Tagged with ‘Apple’

Today, BusinessWeek has reported that Universal Music Group, the largest record label in the world, is in the process of developing a digital music service that will compete with Apple's iTunes.
What seems most interesting about this news is the fact that Universal is trying to convince other major record labels to get on board. “Morris has already enlisted Sony BMG Music Entertainment as a potential partner and is talking to Warner Music Group .”
Total Music, as the service is [...]

Update: Apple has launched its Web app directory.
This story’s still doing the rounds over at the proverbial rumor mill, but we all know it’s coming, so we thought we’d jump on the ol’ bandwagon as many others in Blog Land have already and bring you the news:
Apple’s gonna be launching a Web app directory! For iPhone users! … Yeah!
Hmm, this story seemed exciting just a few hours ago. Yet now the buzz seems to have all but died. [...]

The Starbucks-iTunes Store joint venture announced early last month was met with applause when it was first revealed, and rightly so. The partnership ? apart from being first and foremost a moneymaking one for both corporations involved ? would make it oh-so-easy for folks to buy music over the Web when ?on the go.?
Well, at least for folks who don?t mind stepping into a Starbucks at some point during their day and don?t mind buying music from the [...]

I’ll be really frank about this. The news last week surrounding the iPhone was…bad.
What was supposed to be one long stretch of public celebrations and glittering news, reviews, comments and the like, all heaping praise on a software update/upgrade that would install on the devices a mobile music store of quite elegant proportions, became a come-one-come-all slugfest against the purported miracle maker in the lovely land of Cupertino, California. And rightfully so.
It was to be an update/upgrade met with widespread [...]

While we did inform you about its announcement earlier this month and filled you in on pretty much all of the important details concerning its functions and whatnot, we thought you?d like to know that the iTunes WiFi Music Store has officially gone live. It is accessible via both the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Apple certainly isn?t bringing to the fore something that other businesses in the tech sphere haven?t done themselves. The iTunes WiFi Music Store [...]

Blognation has reported today that Truphone, a London-based startup, is working on a voIP client for the Apple iPhone that will allows users to make affordable international phone calls.
Truphone is a beta-stage service that currently offers mobile phone users free calls via wi-fi and 3G by routing calls over the internet rather than through a traditional mobile operator. Users can also send text messages to other Truphone users free of charge.
The iPhone client is hardly ready for release, as Oliver [...]

It was announced yesterday that Podaddies, a San Francisco-based video advertising start-up, had recently inked a deal with Apple to develop advertising compatibility for Quicktime and iTunes. No money has been exchanged in the deal, but does this mean that future iTunes videos for download could have embedded advertisements?
Currently, Apple does not provide any ad-supported content, but I wouldn't put it past them given the revenue potential that the advertising industry now has.
The main concern that I had with ads [...]

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]

Following weeks of public opposition to the BBC’s delivery of a Windows-only IPTV-based software solution, dubbed iPlayer, Downing Street has now officially come to the aid of the 16,000 netizens who signed an electronic petition designed to address the matter of inequality. The UK government is reiterating conditions originally stipulated by the BBC Trust (a sort of internal watchdog of the media house) as indeed mandatory, and that the BBC must provide solutions for the minorities of the PC market. [...]