Mailbox gets a native Mac client
As promised earlier this year, Mailbox is opening a beta Mac version of its Mailbox email app to the public.
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As promised earlier this year, Mailbox is opening a beta Mac version of its Mailbox email app to the public.
Apple plans to continue building and owning solar panel farms near its data centers, following its first in North Carolina, and another reported in Reno, Nevada. Now it’s planning one in Oregon.
We’ll be bringing you live updates and photos of the event as it unfolds today. We’ll kick things off a bit before the event starts at 10 a.m. PT, so please join us then.
Apple announced the longtime SVP of Hardware Engineering’s retirement, but two months later he reversed his decision. A Businessweek piece has the details on the soap opera that ensued and how Cook convinced Mansfield to stay, in addition to other revelations about post-Jobs Apple.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Eric Schmidt says something nice about Apple, the cost of charging an iPhone 5, Apple’s China problem, iOS 6 issues include Wi-Fi, and more.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: An Apple television isn’t a sure bet, a former Apple legal target gets denied for a Supreme Court appeal, Apple rescues Leopard users, and WWDC announcements get forecasted.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Reality check on Apple rumors, a realistic assessment of why Apple won’t invite Intel to its iDevice party, the AirPlay disruption, and a new look at Mac security.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: More Apple and Samsung legal bickering, Apple’s winning product placement strategy, USPS won’t ship iPads overseas anymore, and more hints about an Apple television.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Steve Jobs’ first idea for the iMac’s name, the latest security update for Macs, and Intel’s plan to get into Apple’s mobile devices.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: HP swears its new laptop designs weren’t inspired by the MacBook Air, a setback in Proview’s iPad trademark case, and Apple’s potential trump card in mobile payments.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Apple’s “teflon” corporate image, more rural carriers get the iPhone, Samsung and Apple both blame and cooperate with each other, and a brilliant new iPhone app marketing strategy.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: new report of an Apple television prototype, an OS X Lion security snafu, Apple’s iPad “Plan B,” and a glimpse into life as a new Apple employee.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: iPhone with haptic feedback, where Apple gets its map data from, making money in the App Store, and Apple’s retail magic.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Apple still vacuuming up mobile phone industry profits; what Apple could be up to with Liquidmetal; a possible iPay payment system; and stubborn iPhone users.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: The truth about Tim Cook’s visit to Valve, myths about Mac security, Apple’s definition of 3G versus 4G, and Phil Schiller gets called out for being a hipster.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Greenpeace v. Apple, how Oracle is furthering Steve Jobs’ wishes, Apple’s decision to offer free Snow Leopard upgrades, and more.
Another version of Mac OS X? Yes, just seven months after Mac OS X Lion was introduced, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is releasing its first developer preview of what comes next for its big cat-themed desktop operating system, to be called “Mountain Lion.” And just like Lion before it, Apple’s desktop OS is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to iOS, especially with the new incorporation of iOS features like iMessage, Game Center, Reminders and Notifications into the software.
In its first earnings announcement since recently appointing Scott Thompson as its new CEO and the seeing off founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo (NSD…
A report from Taiwan’s Commercial Times on Wednesday says Apple is reducing shipments of the iPhone 4S by 10 to 15 percent. But the conclusion doesn’t line up with accounts that show the iPhone 4S has sold well since launch and continues to do so.
Yesterday something happened that hasn’t happened since 2001. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) missed its quarterly earnings numbers.
It’s an interestin…
How should we assess Steve Jobs this weekend?
Bet you hadn’t figured on this characterisation…
In its second month of availability, Apple’s Mac App Store clocked up sales revenue that was already half that from iPad apps, according to…
The next-generation of online music services, due to be launched by two of our biggest tech companies, look a lot like, well, the current ge…
Apple’s iPad may have the current lead in the market, but Honeycomb puts Google in an excellent position to catch up, much as Android has done in competing with iOS. Microsoft is also likely to be impacted, from both a mobile and a desktop computing perspective.
Yesterday Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced its intention to tighten its hold on the payment for and the delivery of content through its successf…
People may be wondering: What will happen to Apple with Steve Jobs out of the day-to-day picture? and, Has Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) seen its best…
As Microsoft and its partners get ready to hit the market with Windows-based tablets to compete with the iPad, my thoughts have turned to the all-important out-of-box experience (OOBE) that will create consumer’s first impressions of such products. Windows and tablets just don’t mix.
John Lennon would have been 70 years old this week. It got me thinking about one of his most famous lyrics, a line from
Mobile computers will chip away at the desktop PC market according to research, led by notebooks that will be shipping 291 million units by 2014. The mobile segment — notebooks, netbooks and tablets combined — will ship over 400 million units in that same year.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today announced a slew of new products and features on its phone, music and video viewing offerings. Check out a visual t…
Steve Jobs took the stage at today’s press event in San Francisco, and disclosed that Apple retail stores regularly hit a million visitors in a day, several days each month. The high foot traffic is translating into new customers for Apple according to Steve Jobs.
We’re here at the Yerba Buena Center for the Apple Music event, and for all of you without Apple hardware who can’t see the live stream, we’re going to live blog the thrill, chills and anticipated product releases. So check back for the news.
You have to love the Asian gadget supply chain, as it frequently divulges information about upcoming products. The Economic Daily News of Taiwan is now reporting that construction of a 7-inch iPad has begun, which could point to a launch in time for the holidays.
Apple recently opened doors to its newest and largest store in London’s Covent Garden. The 10-year-old retail phenomenon is becoming a monster. Each store brings in on average $35.9 million in sales, which continues to rise. And visitors continue to mob them.
Over the course of these 100 columns, Mobile Tech Manor (my home office) is much the same, but there’s no doubt I have changed over that time. Looking through the past columns gives a peek at how far mobile tech has come in a short time.
Microsoft, increasingly the underdog in a range of markets, made small gains in the browser wars. Even so, it must be hard to get excited in Redmond these days, as Google and Apple tag-team to hobble Microsoft’s feeble attempts to become relevant in the mobile market.
Microsoft wants us to believe its response to the iPad will be coming this year, but its message about the way forward is not clear at all. Based on recent happenings in the tablet area, it is understandable if we are confused on what to expect.
During the call to discuss record fiscal Q3 earnings, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer fielded keen questioning, fr…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) exceeded analysts’ expectations for its third fiscal quarter by posting quarterly net profit of $3.25 billion, on record…
Research firm iSuppli raised its prediction for the number of iPads that Apple (s aapl) will ship this year from 7.1 million to 12.9 million. The higher number of predicted iPads to ship in 2010 is due to increased production at Apple’s Asian suppliers.
I have followed everything about the iPhone situation closely, and the message I got from Jobs yesterday matches what I have said for years. It doesn’t matter what the techerati says about a given technology or gadget. Ultimately the only opinion that matters is the consumer’s.
The app store has provided a good outlet to get developers products to market, one that is faster than other methods. The problem: the bigger the app store, and thus the biggest potential market, the more difficult for an app to get noticed by the buying public.
Today is the big keynote address from Steve Jobs at the WWDC and our sister blog TheAppleBlog will be live blogging the keynote and you can follow along in real time to get the scoop on the next iPhone. You can also follow along on Twitter.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) almost went out of business 14 years ago, and today, it became the largest tech company in the world by market capitaliza…
Apple’s CEO and luminary leader Steve Jobs will kick off Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote on June 7 at 1…
There’s one thing for sure now: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) won’t have a chance to buy the largest mobile advertising network now that Google (NS…
Now that we’ve gotten all excited about the potential revenues iAd could reap, and big giants like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL…
The tech industry is all abuzz over the Apple lawsuit claiming HTC is infringing on 20 of Apple’s patents. While commonly felt that Apple is really hitting Google over the Android platform, it may go deeper than that. Apple may be scared of the Chrome OS.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just announced the 10 billionth iTunes music download sale. An impressive statistic for sure, but not the end of the stor…
Google and Apple have become giants in industry, and are beginning to encroach on each other’s home turf. They may have started out as small companies with a niche focus, but those days are long past. Watch as the two companies square off against each other.
The iPhone OS provides no way to interact directly with documents or other files stored on the phone, rendering the device’s owners dependent on application developers to add to their apps methods to work with files. iPhone Explorer addresses that glaring oversight, and it’s free.
The mobile industry is clearly salivating at the prospect of deep-pocket players, like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), buying startups, especially after…
Apple’s Steve Jobs appeared on stage today to say that the company has sold 30 million iPhones to date. Later in the presentation, SVP of pr…
The tech world basically stops when Apple (s AAPL) holds an event, and today’s iPod show will be no different. While no…
It may be hard to avoid The Beatles this week. Digital technology and the passage of time to a new generation of potential customers is brin…
After we broke the news last week that Apple has approved Spotify’s iPhone app, come rumoured the release is scheduled for next Thursday, a…
As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) easily beat its own softball forecast, and even some more rigorous analysts’ expectations, during the third…
AdWhirl, which helps iPhone application developers tap into multiple ad networks, has raised $1 million to expand its platform to other plat…
AdMob, the mobile phone ad network that has been riding high on the success of the iPhone, expects its sales to double this year, which Bloo…
With all the the iPhone 3G S mania, Nielsen thought it might be a good time to dig into just who the “typical” iPhone owner is, finding that…
For the past year, developers have enjoyed the simplicity of building applications for the iPhone — write once, and you are done. But that…
USA Today’s new publisher David Hunke regrets not charging for its iPhone application, even though mobile phones and portable electronic rea…
San Mateo, Calif.-based AdMob, which provides ads to 1,500 applications on the iPhone, said today that it is launching new types of banner a…
Leading up to last year’s Worldwide Developer’s conference, where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) unveiled the 3G iPhone, there were widespread reports o…
News about the web is that the iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content fro…
A big win for Steve Sprang, the developer behind Brushes, the iPhone app artist Jorge Colombo used to create the dreamy June 1 New Yorker co…
Hollywood studio Warner Brothers Digitial Entertainment is gearing up to become a major distributor of iPhone and iPod Touch apps, with plan…
Who says Conde Nast isn
It’s very logical to come to the conclusion that a smartphone is best used for highly technical things, like extending the enterprise into t…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has launched voice-enabled OneSearch for its iPhone app, which will let users conduct a search by simply speaking. The se…
While it is still unknown whether a new iPhone is coming this summer, there’s a report circulating today that a “source closely connected to…
Free online-radio service Pandora may be profitable next year, the first time since its launch 9 years ago, as the number of its subscribers…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has stopped the development on its mobile applications for smartphones (except for the iPhone, which has already been lau…
A new Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) ad notes that it costs $14.99 a month to subscribe to the Zune’s unlimited music subscription service — but $3…
The iPhone is emerging as one of the leading mobile advertising platforms because of its ability to display rich media applications, like vi…
Mobile gamers said they frequently play games as a distraction from daily life issues, to relax, to relieve stress and improve their mood –…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has nearly $29 billion of cash on hand, a hoard exceeded by only one tech company — Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO), reports…
Productivity tools are hardly among the top-selling apps on the iPhone, but even so, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) subsidiary FileMaker is banking on B…
Trent Reznor isn’t one to shy away from taking on the man. He self-releases his albums digitally through his website and often allows fans t…
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, respected for his innovative approach to music distribution, has gone on the rampage against Apple (N…
Whoa. A company not that impressed with the performance of its iPhone app? Like many other marketers, pizza chain Papa John’s took a look ar…
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Fifteen-year *Microsoft* vet Richard Teversham is defecting to *Apple*. Teversham most recently served as senior director of business, insig…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Booyah has officially confirmed that it has raised $4.5 million from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund to c…
The UK’s most-downloaded free iPhone news app is about to start making some money: British news agency ITN has signed up 4th Screen Advertis…
Missing from Microsoft’s third quarter earnings call Thursday: Any new details on Windows Mobile. Executives mentioned the platform only thr…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) easily beat Wall Street estimates during a very busy quarter for the company, in which it came out with new Macs, unveile…
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance on the company’s earnings call in October to declare that “Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) outsold RIM.…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced its second-quarter financial results today, easily beating Wall Street expectations, despite it being the firs…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced its second-quarter financial results today, easily beating Wall Street expectations, despite it being the firs…
The Wall Street Journal has launched an iPhone app and — strikingly for a company that safeguards the bulk of its online content behind a p…
— Halo going mobile?: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) may have plans on extending Halo, the popular first-person shooter on Xbox, to the mobile phon…
It’s a well known fact that iTunes is popular among the teen market. But a new report from Piper Jaffray says that iTunes is now essentially…
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) MP3 has dropped the price of another 100 music tracks from £0.59 to £0.29, in time for the introduction of rival iTune…
A big stink was made late last week after PCMag.com reported that Al Gore’s keynote at next week’s CTIA Wireless 2009 was prohibiting the pr…
*Apple* rolled out a slew of new features for the iPhone, which Menlo Park, Calif.-based Smule used to create a multiplayer game called Leaf…
Dockers, the apparel-maker known for pleated slacks and casual Friday’s, is the latest advertiser to jump on the iPhone bandwagon. AdAge.com…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) sent out invitations to the media today, asking them to join the company at invitation-only event “to learn about the new…
Dennis Crowley is starting another mobile company named after yet another game played by school children. In 2004, Crowley started Dodgeball…
A survey of 235 smartphone users who installed applications on their handset in 2008 by ABI Research last November found that 16.5 percent o…
Hoping for some Apple-like magic, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has announced plans to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up…
Are mobile carriers destined to be traffic cops rather than content and services companies? The WSJ has a piece arguing that — thanks to Ap…
In Apple’s first-quarter conference call today, the company wanted to talk about iPod sales, a strong quarter for iTunes, including the iPho…
In Apple’s first-quarter conference call today, prepared statements focused on iPod sales, a strong quarter for iTunes, including the iPhone…
It will be difficult for anyone to focus on Apple’s first-quarter financial results released today, given that the news that CEO Steve Jobs…
Most Apple watchers are still dissecting the revelation, barely a week old, that CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence from Apple (NSD…
As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Apple prepare to unveil their Q4 earnings after the bell this afternoon, analysts are expecting different thin…
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer took the stage for the very first time at CES — in the place of Bill Gates — to talk about the convergence of th…
Eight years ago, mobile veteran Satoshi Nakajima founded UIEvolution, a company that addressed a very technical and prevalent problem in mob…
In a blow to the franchise, the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo will be Apple’s last. The tech giant is pulling out of the yearly event…
In a blow to the franchise, the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo will be Apple’s last. The tech giant is pulling out of the yearly event…
Last night, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) revamped the App Store to help solve one of the problems it faces as it gets bigger — how do you discover ne…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to launch a new version of search on the iPhone that will allow users to conduct searches by using their voi…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) filed its annual report for the 2008 fiscal year with the SEC today, and after combing through the 93-page document, we…
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Yesterday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released an update to its syncing service called MobileMe, which launched side-by-side with the iPhone 3G in J…
Apple’s shares have slid more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year, and going forward, Apple’s forecast is particularly foggy wit…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is dropping its newly instated non-disclosure agreement about iPhone applications, it wrote today on a developer Web site…
— Pandora lining up advertisers for iPhone app: Best Buy and Beck
Our friend Rex Hammock’s take on the Microsoft ad campaign from his RexBlog. Keep in mind, he’s an avid Apple user.
Finally, Microsoft resp…
After every CTIA, I typically write up a list of the coolest things I saw at the show. Usually, the list includes a gadget or two, an applic…
The second in the series of the new $300 million campaign by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), trying to make Windows and Vista more human, well, sort…
Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) addition of a music recommendation engine to iTunes this week will have brought a nervous gulp from those already in th…
Online music retailer eMusic’s CEO David Pakman is fearful of July’s memorandum of understanding, in which ISPs agreed to reduce piracy on t…
Since opening its App Store for the iPhone in July, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has raked in an average of $1 million a day in sales, a cool $30 mill…
In a recent internal memo, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the various threats to the company, including the surging Appl…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CFO Peter Oppenheimer started off the call ticking off all kinds of good numbers: 1 million iPhones sold, 25 million appl…
Here’s the quick figures from the just-released earnings report from Apple: the maker of computers, iPods and iPhones announced quarterly re…
Here’s the quick figures from the just-released earnings report from Apple: the maker of computers, iPods and iPhones announced quarterly re…
A new YouTube channel dedicated to sharing tips on all the productive (and not so productive) things people can do with their mobile phones…
[by Paul Resnikoff, Publisher, DigitalMusicNews] Five billion is a large number, in virtually any context. Five billion people is a lot of…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is looking to music to help it compete with its mobile rivals including RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and Nok…
— The Money Channel has launched MoneyChannel Mobile, which will offer business, stock market and economic news, as well as stock quotes an…
This isn’t really relevant anymore, but patent filings show that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was at least considering an MVNO in the lead-up to the l…
A 3G iPhone may be on the way if rumors are correct that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has ordered 10 million of the high-speed devices. Gartner analys…
— Hackers plot bypass: An independent group of software developers calling themselves the iPhone Dev Team claim to be close to breaking App…
I’m currently in the airport waiting to board my flight from Seattle to San Jose, where tomorrow I’ll drive to Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Cupertin…
SF-based DoubleTwist, the DRM-fighting startup from famed hacker “DVD” Jon Lech Johanson, has raised funding from Skype-backer Index Venture…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) rolled out a 16 GB model of the iPhone today, double its previous capacity of 8 GB. The 8 GB version remains priced at $3…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reported revenue of $9.6 billion in the quarter ended December 29, up 35 percent from $7.1 billion in the year-ago period…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reported revenue of $9.6 billion for the quarter ending Dec. 29, up 35 percent from last year’s $7.1 billion and ahead of…
There’s a cliche that the market doesn’t like surprises, but today’s Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote could’ve used some: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) sha…
I am, in a sense, sitting in the front row of the press section at Macworld, waiting for Steve Jobs’ much-anticipated keynote. But I’m not a…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is making a big play for living room entertainment. Steve Jobs used Macworld to unveil a new iTunes Movie Rentals additi…
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) CEO Didier Lombard told French radio station BFM today that the iPhone has led to a
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) reports that its French network operator Orange has sold more than 70,000 Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones in the month…
— Radiohead Ends Pay-Your-Own-Price Plan, Probably For Good: Radiohead’s experiment in letting fans decide what to pay for downloads of its…
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) chief executive Didier Lombard said he expects Orange to sell nearly 100,000 iPhones by the end of 2007, reports…
The iPhone – it’s sexy but pricey. Seventy-two percent of Brits won’t be buying the gadget – released in the UK on November 9 – according to…
Jamster will launch a mobile entertainment portal customised for the iPhone on Friday, coinciding with the device’s arrival in the UK and Ge…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will allow third-party apps on the iPhone, the company officially announced today, after rumors and hopes to this effect…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will allow third-party apps on the iPhone, the company officially announced today, after rumors and hopes to this effect…
This came out about a month ago on DMN here, and now both BusinessWeek and Telegraph UK are offering more details: Universal Music Group is…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is planning to launch a directory of official Web 2.0 iPhone applications, an anonymous source told AppleInsider. Apparen…
Rumors have been circulating and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is expected to launch new versions of its Zune media player this evening. Not that Z…
We did our first seminar two weeks ago in LA, where the theme was “iPhone and Beyond: The Content Opportunities”. The second discussion pane…
We did our first seminar last week in LA, where the theme was “iPhone and Beyond: The Content Opportunities”. The first discussion panel was…
Thomas Hazlett, former chief economist of the FCC, has written an opinion piece for the Financial Times arguing that “walled gardens” promot…
So Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has finally come out with a statement which says this simply: “Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPho…
Gartner Group analyst Carolina Milanesi discusses whether the iPhone’s price tag will deter British consumers: video below from WSJ:
It was bound to happen that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and operators wouldn’t be able to keep up the hype factor around launches of the iPhone in ev…
Our “iPhone and Beyond” seminar went very well today…the star, as you can see below. We’ll have full video from the three panels early nex…
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night reportedly blamed pesky European taxes for the iTunes Store pricing policy that yesterday brought it to a Euro…
We’re all set for our first seminar, titled “iPhone And Beyond: The Content Opportunities” this evening at Landmark Theater. As mentioned be…
As we’re approaching close to our first seminar, titled
The iHype continues but some are questioning how much longer it will last: recent figures from analysts iSuppli say that there were more iPh…
Tickets sales are ongoing, for our “iPhone And Beyond: The Content Opportunities” half-day seminar we’re doing on Sept 20th in LA. Since we’…
So are the rumors about Apple’s (Nsdq: AAPL) planned announced Sep 5: The Los Angeles Times and The New York Post both reported Friday that…
So the rumor has it, based on an event Apple (NYSE: AAPL) is doing on Sep 5th in San Francisco. Some speculation of what the new iPods could…
Yes, they couldn’t release it for general distribution just yet, after getting some lawyerly calls, but here’s the video:
More reports on iPhone’s European arrival and this one from FT sounds more definitive: it has signed with T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in Fra…
The latest carrier rumored to be winning a distribution deal for Apple’s iPhone is Orange (at last). MacScoop reports unnamed sources as say…
— AdMob: It has released a special ad unit designed for the iPhone. AdMob’s new iPhone ad unit for Starbucks includes a Starbucks ad that,…
Harper Collins has ported its Browse Inside service to the iPhone. People using the iPhone can visit http://mobile.harpercollins.com and vi…
We’ve made a small date change to our half-day “iPhone And Beyond: The Content Opportunities” seminar in LA: it is now Sep 20, instead of Se…
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) spent nearly as much on development of the iPhone as it did on its new Leopard OS, according the company’s 10Q filed wi…
Not earth shattering by any stretch but some interesting language in the Apple 10Q (Nasdaq: AAPL) filed with the SEC Wednesday just caught m…
The only iPhone-related news I’ve seen coming out of the Apple press conference is the linking of iPhones to iLife 08, and from there to the…
It’s not surprising this has happened, but doing the rounds is the report that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is being sued by a company called SP Tec…
Update: We’ve changed the date to Sep 20th, due to other clashes.
So we are definitely doing the seminar idea I mentioned here last week: T…
Sales of iPods and computers helped boost Q2 profits 73.3 percent for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to $818 million from $472 million, as revenues ca…
Sales of iPods and computers helped boost Q2 profits 73.3 percent for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to $818 million from $472 million, as revenues c…
— Hacking into iPhone: Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored website or Internet hotspot, security researc…
That was quick: FlickIM, a lightweight IM client developed specifically for iPhone (by its still-stealth parent company Next3), has received…
The WSJ takes a look at how Best Buy is ramping up its mobile phones sales strategy. In partnership with Europe
— A JP Morgan analyst first said yesterday that Apple is looking into launching a slimmed-down iPhone phone based on the iPod Nano, which i…
Apple sure knows how to sneak one through: just as Universal Music Group refused to sign a long-term contract with it over iTunes sales (wit…
Some more iPhone-related news trickling out:
— Meebo, the online IM service which allows users to access all major IM clients online, now w…
Here’s some choice iPhone-related posting on Craigslist:
— iPhone Baby Sitting: I am a software developer. I am great with electronics. I a…
Here’s some choice iPhone-related posting on Craigslist:
— iPhone Baby Sitting: I am a software developer. I am great with electronics. I a…
More on the iPhone frenzy:
— iPhone security: Neel Mehta, a security expert at IBM’s Internet Security Systems, thinks the iPhone’s securit…
What it has is making WSJ, NYT, Newsweek and USAToday go gaga over it. What it doesn’t have are some very key things, and Gizmodo lists them…
Craigslist is full of them…below is a “real”ad:
“We have line waiters in every major city, for iPhone, X-box, iPod, Zune, SPS, Video Game…
Professional contrarian John Heilemann has a cover story about Steve Jobs in the latest issue of New York Magazine, and tackles the “realit…
On iTunes, where else….the full video and audio of the very enjoyable joint interview is here now, for download. Microsoft will follow soo…
AllThingsD, which has done a great job blogging its own conference, has put up video part one of the rare Bill Gates and Steve Jobs joint se…
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are coming on stage for the first time in a joint interview at the D Conference. Pics here.
Gates: First thing I w…
Steve Jobs, speaking at D conference, announced that YouTube is now embedded into the AppleTV interface and works off a live Internet connec…
— What business is Apple in: We are in two businesses: Mac business and music business…each of them are about $10 billion each. The third…
Earlier this week, observers noted that, while Apple is usually first to market with new-release additions to the iTunes Store, it has been…
TBWA/Chiat/Day, the ad agency which did the iPhone teaser “Hello” commercial during the Academy Awards in February for Apple’s iPhone, is no…
Markitecture made a survey of 1,300 people of a “nationally representative sample” of the US which found that 6 percent responded they were…
The music labels are about to get into the Apple iTunes renegotiation dance, again, and this FT story suggests that they will be asking the…
EMI and Apple held a joint press conference today to announce that iTunes will start selling EMI tracks with better sound quality that are D…
Update 1: Reuters says citing sources that the Beatles deal is not part of the announcement.
Update 2: WSJ is also reporting that the announ…
As someone who’s impatiently bought many pre-release singles on iTunes and then gritted my teeth as I paid full price for the album with the…
Near the end of a late-afternoon session, Jupiter Research’s Julie Ask tossed a yes-no question to her panel: is the iPhone a game changer?…
The Guardian has a story covering the two rumors-de-jour, the iPhone and Google phone. While Google is downplaying any plans to launch its o…
Reuters reports EU consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has criticized Apple’s practice of bundling of its iPod music players and its iTunes online…
In the music industry, one thing hasn’t changed, and it’s that the record companies can’t get their products across to potential buyers with…
Our UK contributor Robert Andrews caught this at OPA Forum for the Future in London today … Asked about Motorola’s response to Apple’s upc…
Watching the Oscars tonight and paid half-attention to this one, until the end of the ad: Apple debuted its first TV ad for iPhone, launchin…
This video on YouTube puts forward a convincing argument for Apple to sell ringtones for its iPhone…the most convincing part is the inclus…
Cisco and Apple have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark…the agreement will allow Apple to use the name in exchange for…
The backstory of how iPhone came together, though the Time magazine story was much better. This one from WSJ gets lost in “people familiar w…
Cisco has said it will give Apple an extension until Wednesday (February 21) to respond to the lawsuit it recently filed over the iPhone tra…
Robbie Bach, the Entertainment and Devices unit president at Microsoft, did a Q&A with News.com on a bunch of mobile-related issues. And he…
So reports WSJ, after earlier reports about extension in negotiation deadlines following an earlier lawsuit: Apple’s new deadline to respond…
The reviews of Steve Jobs’ DRM Manifesto are coming in from the music industry and the lines fall pretty much as you would expect. Take Edga…
Seems like a settlement is likely: Cisco and Apple have agreed to extend the time for Apple to respond to a lawsuit over the iPhone trademar…
So goes the rumors online, that Canadian telco Rogers will be offering iPhone when it launches there. Apparently will be the exclusive provi…
Considerable coverage today about Norway, joined by consumer groups in Germany and France, putting the pressure on Apple to embrace interope…
This is the first such definitive country action against Apple and its iTunes store: Norway
This is buzzing around today: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate around a 50 per cent gross margin, according to research firm iSuppli.…
This is buzzing around today: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate around a 50 per cent gross margin, according to research firm iSuppli.…
Apple turned in strong numbers for the quarter ending Dec. 30: record profit of $1 billion or $1.14 earnings per diluted share, on record qu…
The Register hones in on the repercussions of a podcast, broadcast on OUT-LAW Radio, which claims Cisco could lose the rights to the iPhone…
[ByCarleen Hawn]
Attendees I talked to expected a release date, or at least a demo, of OS X Leopard. They got neither. No mention of Apple i…
Updated: SNL had a bit on Weekend Update last night…not that funny, though.
Conan, Craig and Colbert did, on bits on their shows. Clips…
Walt’s short video review is below:
His column is here: “if you’re in the market for a smart phone and can afford $499, you might want to…
[by Carleen Hawn] Diggnation Founder Kevin Rose and his anchor Alex Albrecht produced Episode 80 of their hit show right off the Macworld Ex…
[by Carleen Hawn] David Pogue’s schmaltzy Macworld talk show always plays to a packed house and this morning’s was no different. This year t…
Updated: The full lawsuit is here as a PDF. Cisco is alleging that Apple had attempted to get rights to the iPhone name several times, but a…
We had one post about Apple phone here, but tons more on our sister site MocoNews.net:
— Apple Launches iPhone With Cingular; Works With G…
[by Carleen Hawn] Apparently, if Steve Jobs is allowed to run wild, our digital future won’t include men.
One of the highlights of this year…
Apple has launched a comprehensive information sub-site on the iPhone, here.
The full releases are here and here.
News.com reports that Apple and Cisco will be coming to an agreement on the usage of the term “iPhone” As you know, Cisco launched a Voip ph…
The Steve Jobs keynote is going on at Macworld…surprisingly also called iPhone.
— Jobs says it combines iPod, phone, internet communicat…
The Steve Jobs keynote is going on at Macworld.
— The company has announced its TV extender called Apple TV (not iTV as its codename was).…
This was expected, and an announcement is coming tomorrow at Macworld, WSJ is reporting, citing sources: Apple is launching an MVNO mobile p…
EA Mobile head Mitch Lasky has given an interview Reuters about games on iPods — it’s got 11 games on the device going for $4.99 a pop. (UP…
Ed’s Note: Carleen is coming on board for us to cover Macworld this week. Her intro note and contact info below.
By Carleen Hawn: It’s that…
A stronger-than-expected Christmas for music downloads as U.S. digital track sales reached an all-time high last week, with 30.1 units sold,…
Last night, we wrote about a Forrester Research report on iTunes sales. Today, analyst Josh Bernoff weighs in via his own blog with the head…
And so it goes…UBS telecom analyst John Hodulik has asserted that Apple plans an MVNO, buying airtime from Cingular. There’s no evidence f…
Apple comes up with a “Zune Day” announcement designed to point out how much of the world the iPod already owns … Sometime in mid-2007,…
Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter profit soared 27 percent to $546 million, or 62 cents per share, fueled by gains in shipments of both iPods an…
PBS is adding a third online download venue. The same seven shows that are available on Google Video and OMN — Antiques Roadshow, Nova, Art…
While other content providers flock to iTunes, Major League Baseball is heading in the other direction as part of its constant quest for con…
This has been bubbling for the last few days: Apple’s having a “pod” brand crackdown and last week sent a cease-and-desist to Podcast Ready…
— eDonkey bites the dust: The Record Industry Association of America is claiming another victory after eDonkey agreed a $30 million pay-off…
Nothing too casual about Apple’s foray into casual gaming. The company announced Tuesday that it is adding an iPod Games section to the iTun…
— MySpace Downloads May Be “Largest Purchasable Offering Of Music Ever”: That’s what Snocap CEO Rusty Rueff told Marketwatch. (video interv…
Ah, it’s been a while since there was a good iPhone rumor…American Technology Research is encouraging investors to buy Apple shares. “Our…
A lot happening on the digital music scene …
— Oceanic Time Warner launched OCTunes, a specialist online music store this week offering m…
So what if Google will not launch its own music service…its CEO is now on the board of the biggest digital music/media company around: App…
— Google & MTV Networks Streaming Starts: The deal, that was announced two weeks ago, has started…
— TBS Launches Broadband Site: TBS is…
Lotsa nuances to this deal: Apple has traditionally tied up with Pepsi in U.S., and on Coca Cola side, it recently closed down its doomed Eu…
Metallica was among the last few big-act holdouts in digital music, the Beatles, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin being most of the rest….not willin…
Warner Bros. classics are the latest addition to the Apple iTunes Music Store; shows include ‘Friends,” ‘Babylon V,” and, perhaps most impor…
Engadget has some more details on Zune (our full coverage here):
— Answers some of my questions below: The service and device will not be P…
Despite all the hype and speculation about an iPod phone on iTunes on mobile phones, no clear indication beyond that failed iTunes+Moto expe…
Fueled by the Macintosh shift to Intel, Apple (AAPL) reported a 47.5-percent increase in profit for its fiscal third quarter to $472 million…
French lawmakers have given final approval to the “iTunes law” that could force Apple to make iPod and iTunes store compatible with rivals’…
This rumor and speculation has been on about this for a while and now NYP has some more: it says that MSFT has quietly restarted licensing t…
Discovery Communications is the newest entrant in the iTunes library. The package includes series and specials from the Discovery Channel, T…
The French Senate passed a version of a controversial copyright bill Wednesday 164-128, moving the changes closer to law. First, a committee…
NBA SVP Brenda Spoonemore made it clear during our recent interview that the NBA is open to multiple video delivery and business models. The…
Speculation and supposition about Apple and the iPod/music phone conundrum is back in the media.
Playlist notes a statement by ABI Research…
I’m not an expert, but…it seems this patent could have far reaching effects for the mobile industry. Apple appears to have filed a patent…
Apple has won the battle with the record-labels over “variable pricing”, which would have seen the cost of a lot of songs rise. Apple has an…
It’s been expected for weeks and now it’s official — the four largest record companies have backed away from talk of variable pricing for m…
In the scheme of things, this was to be expected: Apple is considering putting ads within the iTunes client/environment, reports Ad Age…Th…
The power of a monopolist, against former monopolists: The music labels may be on the verge of waving the white flag in front of Steve Jobs,…
iTunes:
— 2.9 million-plus songs
— 60,000 podcasts
— 9,000 music videos
— 70-plus television shows (if everyone who’s said they’re worki…
Spoken word company Audible filed its 10-K annual report last week, and some interesting details from it about its relationship with Apple,…
AP/P-I: We’ve been writing about this all along — the major music companies feel inhibited by Steve Jobs’ insistence on standard $0.99 pric…
Spoken word company Audible filed its 10-K annual report last week, and some interesting details from it about its relationship with Apple,…
What an up and down week for Apple … and it’s only Tuesday: a lawsuit in London, Denmark joins France on the interop kick, Steve Jobs’s st…
If there was any doubt of interest in downloading classical music, the 1.4 million downloads of Beethoven symphonies when the BBC offered th…
Updated, read below: So Steve Jobs has changed his mind about subscriptions…well, we all knew that was vintage Jobs bluster anyway and he…
Disney has been making incremental income from iTunes downloads since mid-October, when CEO Bob Iger announced the deal without consulting t…
Apple’s surpassed billion song downloads from iTunes, since it opened less than three years ago. Apple also said it had surpassed more than…
Some decent information in the latest 10-Q filed by Apple, for its Q4 period (we covered the earnings here):
— Strong sales of iPods during…
Work in progress. Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs pre-released some earnings numbers during his keynote at Macworld Expo. Now we get the d…
I spent a few minutes thinking about what kind of iPod/iTunes announcement Steve Jobs might make today — and a lot more wondering what the…
Expect more content announcements tomorrow as MacWorld starts: for now, Apple will sell a limited number of archived “Saturday Night” skits…
The 2006 Macworld Expo, starting tomorrow in SF, will see a slew of major announcement from Apple, or so analysts expect. Among them, conten…
Music.com Now Offers Online Radio Stations Powered by Pandora’s Music Genome Project: Music.com users can create and share online radio stat…
Apple has scrapped a project to sell ringtones via the iTunes store, although the reasons are unclear.
“iRingTones”, as we’ll call it, inte…
Well, both Fox and Clear Channel want to, for distribution of video and audio:
— Fox: Fox Filmed Entertainment is open to a deal with iTune…
— Downloads of the Dead are Not Dead Yet: Trying to back away from what charitably can be termed a debacle, the Grateful Dead is allowing t…
One great way to get some consumer-press publicity these days — make it easy for content to be viewed on video iPods. Internet video start-…
I’m sure Apple may have some issues with it, but this is nifty…shows you the video economy which can develop around iPod and other portabl…
Some TV networks are incensed at Tivo’s move to announce a service to take shows on portable devices like iPod and PSP, and are mulling lega…
EMI chief executive Alain Levy has been quoted as saying that he discussed the issue of a single 99c price point for downloaded music with S…
Not necessarily a statement of fact, but so says EMI Music CEO Alain Levy…he said EMI had discussed the issue with Steve Jobs and believed…
Not much in Audible’s Q3 10-Q (filed last week) besides the numbers, but some points about the relationship with Apple iTunes and revenues f…
While I was working on a mobile content/tech piece for Sports Business Journal, I kept hearing about another reporter looking at the sports…
Maybe, just maybe, there’s a business in portable video after all. If Steve Jobs had listened to, well, last year’s Steve Jobs, he wouldn’t…
iTunes VP Eddy Cue frames the launch of iTunes Australia as a new offensive in that country’s battle against illegal P2P. Downplaying to ZDN…
The rumors were true…the site is here. Music downloads will be $1.69 AUD per song, or about $1.20 US, with videos costing $3.39 AUD and mo…
Not that it was unexpected: As many as six times more customers are returning the [Apple iTunes] Rokr phones than is normal for new handset…
Anyone who’s surprised that the Suicide Girls and company are among the first to produce indy video optimized for the new iPod and iTunes 6…
Speculation continues: Will ads come on to big-media content for the new video iPod? For now, ABC, which is providing TV show downloads for…
So says this story in Guardian…Universal Music Group, one of the biggest music labels, is likely to introduce variable wholesale prices fo…
In UK, Apple and Napster have withdrawn adverts running on P2P file sharing websites following criticism from BPI, the UK record industry as…
Tony Fadell, head of iPod engineering, will succeed Jon Rubinstein as senior VP of the iPod division next year…Rubinstein plans to retire…
I tested the video download part of iTunes (not on the video iPod, just on my PC)…the buying process is easy as ever, same as the usual iT…
Apple has launched a video iPod, ending weeks of crazy speculation by well, everyone…the new version will come in a 30GB model for $299 a…
4Q05: — More than 1 million Nanos shipped in its first 17 days, which also were the last 17 days of the quarter.
— More than 6,451,000 iPo…
Note: This post is a work in progress. Yes, that’s the financial world we live in. A company turns in a record year — in Apple’s case, that…
I almost hate to fuel this fire but the latest Apple version of “Where’s Waldo?” isn’t going away until Wednesday’s announcement, when it wi…
Another day, another secret Apple announcement coming. Next week, it will be another one, according to a journalist invite, though it doesn’…
Not so much a fact as an opinion, but Motorola CEO Ed Zander, who downplayed disparaging remarks he made last week about Apple’s newest musi…
An Apple a day … The download pricing story isn’t going awayh anytime soon, whicbh is I’m glad to see Arik Hesseldahl take the time to lay…
Record companies floating the idea of a price hike from the iTunes standard $0.99 a song in the U.S. should think again, according to Apple…
Steve Jobs is skeptical that consumers will be willing to pay more than the 99c price set by iTunes for song downloads. At a news conference…
More to come later…(live coverage of the launch, by from Mac Observer here)
From the release on Mobiledia:
The new Motorola ROKR (pronounc…
Lost in the iPhone shuffle, this wouldn’t the first — and might not even be the coolest– music-to-phone option out there. Napster To Go al…
I suppose it would be cynical to suggest that the hush-hush, big-event Apple just scheduled for Sept. 7 has anything to do with taking minds…
Not sure why this is a suprise…if you ask me, there’s some sleazy PR going on from music labels in “leaking-out” this story, as a way to p…
And may not ever enter it, according to this story, unless one of its rivals comes up with a way to make subscriptions mainstream.
According…
So goes the market chatter on a slow week in August. Google might offer Apple’s iTunes music store through its own site. Nothing more yet……
So much for the high-profile deal announced at CES last year… H-P to stop reselling Apple’s popular iPod portable music player, as it doe…
Peter Burrows hashes through all the video iPod rumors and thinks that chances are the company will simply fold some video capabilities into…
The answer is it just might if people who think content should be mainstream hold Apple accountable for podcasts downloaded through iTunes.…
Rumors about Apple are the bread and butter of the tech industry at the moment, from the iTunes phone to the ViPod (video iPod) pundits have…
This will add more fuel to the Apple iTunes-iPod video speculation. We’ve been covering Apple’s quiet moves into video, with its new iTunes…
Chasing up on the report by Informa Telecoms and Media that owners of brands would be taking over the mobile content market Macworld posed t…
The numbers are mind-boggling: Apple shipped 6,155,000 iPods in 3Q05, up 616 percent over the same quarter in 2004. Mac shipments were up 35…
A completely speculative (though logical) story following Disney’s MVNO announcement: will Apple’s get into the MVNO game? It is launching t…
Engadget has posted some photos that could be the iTunes phone — all they know is that it’s a Motorola phone that syncs with iTunes 4.9. Th…
You can pick and choose: iTunes video or iTunes phone..coming out tomorrow…
We’ve written a bunch about iPod vs the mobile music players, and lo behold, now Barron’s writes a long story on this battle. Expect Apple’s…
I was musing over a post on what seems to be an inventory pile-up of various iPods when I came across word of an expanding relationship betw…
Nokia will use open-source software for a new mobile Internet browser on its 60-series phones. The browser will use the same components as A…
After days of incessant rumors and pie-in-the-sky chatter, Steve Jobs made it official during today’s keynote to Apple developers: Apple wil…
What if the immediate idea behind iTunes video enabled in version 4.8 is personal media management? Apple doesn’t want to give up ground as…
According to The Courier Mail, a major record company is holding out and Apple has had to cancel an ad buy and postpone what was to have bee…
The Wall Street Journal has put two and two together and run an article on how the next generation of mobile phones are going to threaten th…
The mobile industry is keen to move into the portable music player market, and in the process own it. However it’s not that simple… “The p…
Apple have published a QuickTime presentation of the presentation by Frank Casanova at the CTIA – Wireless conference. Casanova’s presentat…
Apple has rolled out a new iPod that allows users to view and share photos, a dramatic expansion that takes the most popular digital music p…
In announcing the $149 U2 package, Apple executives stopped well short of saying that the flat-rate pricing era was over. But they did say t…
This is a first for any music service I’ve heard of…In UK, 3G mobile operator 3 is running its first ever mobile video ad campaign, for th…
Rumors on this surfaced earlier today and Forbes.com is confirming it…the U2 edition of iPod will come preloaded with the band’s new album…
“If Apple licenses FairPlay, it could sacrifice some sales and profits from its iPod line in the near term. But over the long haul, sowing t…
Apple’s just reported its Q3 numbers: it had a net profit of $106 million, compared to a net profit of $44 million in the year-ago quarter.…
The Apple Computer versus Apple (TheBeatles) case is unlikely to see an out of court settlement, reports Macworld UK. “This will not end wi…
Apple is planning the next wave of expansion for iTunes store, with a multi-country European launch in October. Eddie Cue, Apple’s VP of app…
(sub. req.): An interesting story on the iPod trickle-through economy of products and services…(pick up the Playlist magazine if you want…
I feel for my country mates, even though I am here now…In reaction to claims that Apple is overcharging customers for song downloads in UK…
Apple has what it would need — including its ongoing transition to a services outfit — to make a “Macphone” network work…
“Apple could a…
The London-based Consumers’ Association has asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate Apple claiming the company’s iTunes song shop is…
Ok, confusing, but The Beatles’ company, Apple Corps may be in for a huge legal settlement with Apple Computer, reports Daily Variety…Some…
Apple will offer commissions to third-party sites that drive customers to its iTunes online music store…Napster and MusicMatch already do…
Apple is looking for two iPod hardware engineers both with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi experience, opening the possibility that the portable music p…
I should have known…when I talked about the online-mobile music disconnect, I should have guessed that someone who energized the online mu…
This is ridiculous..Apple’s isolation in the community is only going to increase….open up, or die.
According to TMO, Apple executive Eddy…
Apple has signed on the indies for UK…it has signed deals with three of the UK’s largest independent labels, partly ending a licensing spa…
Apple needs to constantly innovate to stay ahead of competition in the digital music space, goes the argument. As part of that, besides laun…
An Apple love fest from Newsweek…iPod is on the cover of the latest issue, to hit stands today.
The company also announced a new version o…
Apple Computer’s Q3 profit more than tripled as surging sales of iPods drove revenue for the period to an eight-year high. Net income rose t…
Indie record labels in Europe are on the verge of striking an agreement with Apple that will allow its iTunes music service to sell tracks b…
Apple’s iTunes music service has sold 100 million songs…some more obsessive details here….
Song storage numbers fight…
(via A Copyfighter’s Musings): () The Berkman Center’s Digitial Media Project at Harvard has released a new study by it students, which cons…
Apple iTunes, which was launched in Britain, France and Germany last week, will have a Europewide version of iTunes by October, after it rea…
Apple said that its European iTunes Music Store had sold over 800,000 songs in the first week of launch, more than half of which (450,000) w…
On licensing negotiations in Europe: “On other services, every song has a different set of rights attached to it. We didn’t want that. The u…
This analysis follows iTunes’ launch in UK, France and Germany earlier today…it says Apple will have a tougher time than it has had in U.S…
And Macworld has some ecstatic coverage of the press junket announcing the launch. It has been launched in UK, France and Germany, with pric…
At a news conference in London, at 11 AM GMT, where Steve Jobs is expected to show up…
Expect Macworld UK to do some great blogging/live c…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the first rock star of the technology business, sat down with Walt Mossberg to talk about the computer company’s succe…
Apple announced that QuickTime 6, its digital media software, has surpassed the 250-million download mark since that version was released tw…
(sub. req.): Steve Jobs has squashed rumors of price increase for Apple iTunes music service…he spoke today at the oh-so-posh D conference…
Apple Computer will announce next week its long-awaited European version of the iTunes online music store, according to this Reuters report.…
Simple: Rethink subscriptions. “To stare down a raft of new music players, Apple needs to broaden its product line. It should consider formi…
Apple could be ready to launch its iTunes Music Store in Europe by the middle of June, accordig to The Register. According to the story, App…
A more reasoned story which dissects beyond the iTunes hysteria…the story talks about prices of a full downloadable album being more than…
Apple is was sticking to a plan to launch a European version of its iTunes Music Store on the Internet this year, saying it would not rush i…
For Q1, Apple earned $46 million, on revenues of $1.91 billion. That compares with earnings of $14 million, on revenues of $1.48 billion for…
As rivals multiply, Jobs & Co. will make more money from its music site and iPods if all the industry’s rival players can share its software…
Apple has admitted that it will fall rather short of its first-year iTunes Music Store 100 million song sales target. “We’re not going to ma…
HP is expected to begin bundling Apple’s iTunes digital-jukebox software with its consumer machines by the end of March.
Related:
— The Rea…
Apple said on Monday it has sold 50 million songs over the Internet through its iTunes Music Store…the figure excludes those redeemed thro…
Alex Salkever thinks that Virgin’s cool factor may overwhelm Apple’s cool factor in the online music space…The honeymoon was nice while it…
Perhaps the most valid question ever asked in the music industry…it has got to be on Steve Jobs mind, what with the vaporware iPhone etc..…
Apple Computer will return to London’s High Court today to contest the latest lawsuit brought by Beatles managing company Apple Corps. The B…
The first real suing case among the legitimate music services: Rap superstar Eminem, who claims that he could fetch more than $10 million fo…
In a first for legitmate music service, iTunes has started selling live concert recording from jam band Widespread Panic…the band’s year-e…
If it happens worldwide, it will be a huge boost to Quicktime and Apple…Yahoo will use Singapore as the testbed for a new Yahoo service wh…
Yep, and I want to hire John Battelle to run my ship…whatever, dude…
Apple Computer reported a 36 percent jump in revenue in its first quarter, beating analyst expectations. “It was an outstanding quarter for…
(sub. req.): The Apple-Microsoft battle is a battle of music formats, AAC versus WMP…The winner of the standards battle could come down to…
Hewlett-Packard said Thursday it will start selling an HP-branded version of Apple Computer’s iPod this summer as part of a broad expansion…
The Macworld magazine is running a live coverage of Steve Jobs’ keynote happening right now at Macworld Expo San Francisco. (There’s a live…
(sub. req.): Apple plans to introduce a cheaper iPod that costs much less than its current $299 entry-level model…
Pricing low is risky fo…
Apple Japan is planning to launch a localized version of the iTunes Music Store in Japan the coming months…
(sub. req.): “At a time when companies are being forced to compete against the free – whether it is free music exchanged online or free soft…
America Online launched its anticipated deal to offer Apple’s iTunes…AOL will sell original music from its Sessions@AOL and Broadband Rock…
Apple has released a new version of its QuickTime multimedia software, adding support for the creation, delivery and playback of video over…
USA Today lists the reasons, and how competitors have not been able to keep up. Some interesting admissions on Apple’s superiority by compet…
More praise heaped on Apple: Ad Age has named Apple as its “Marketer of the Year” for 2003…
Also read Scott Donaton’s editorial, “Apple’s…
Music fans have purchased more than 25 million songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store…Apple also said that more than $1 million of iTunes o…
Is this the kiss of judas for Apple’s iTunes? Usually anything branded cool by Time Warner magazines dies a painful death (anecdotal evidenc…
That’s the best analogy Jobs could come up with? I prefer: “Apple is the new MTV”.
He was talking to analysts yesterday. He said that SoundS…
Apple’s applications marketing chief Peter Lowe has urged PC manufacturers to bundle iTunes for Windows with off-the-shelf PCs….
Tech guru Tim O’Reilly cites Apple’s iTunes Music Store as an example of how the company is leading a revolution in Net-enabled software…h…
Apple Computer said it has released an updated version of its iTunes program intended to fix bugs encountered by some Windows users.
iTunes for Windows has been downloaded over a million times since its launch on Thursday…in the same period over one million songs have be…
Microsoft thinks that iTunes for Windows is just too limiting for discerning Windows users. This was revealed in an “interview” with Dave Fe…
In case you were in hibernation, here’s what happened today: Apple unveiled the Windows version of its iTunes music service…the new jukebo…
This will be a huge, huge win for Apple’s Windows service: Bambi Francisco is reporting that Apple’s iTunes music unit is expected to annou…
So the deal is with AOL Broadband…who wants to download music on a dial-up anyway? Hence the ramifications may not be as widespread as I i…
After the dot-com collapse, most Mac sites are struggling to pay their bills…”It presents an unsettling dilemma for Mac users fond of gett…
Perhaps spurred by Napster’s relaunch, Apple Computer is expected next week to expand its online music service to Windows-based computers.
T…
The spat between Apple Computer and Beatles ay end up in court, according to Steve Jobs. He dismissed the earlier agreement between the two,…
Apple will not launch its iTunes music service in Europe this year…”We’re clearly working on it (but) I think we’ll do it next year,” Stev…
According to this Newsweek story, Apple has moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-bas…
Peter Lowe, Apple’s director of marketing for applications and services, downplayed recent questions over the download resale policy of the…
Apple Computer said on Monday it has sold more than 10 million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago and announce…
eBay on Thursday canceled an auction that sought to resell a music download that was purchased through Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store,…
This according to this story: “Australia should have its first [legal music service] by Christmas. It is likely it will be a local version o…
“Instead of resigning himself to the idea that Apple will never be more than a niche PC supplier, Jobs is slowly transforming it into a high…
(speaker bio): The way to go after illegal file sharing services is to compete with them…go after their weaknesses. The reason why people…
This is the estimate of Needham’s analyst Charles Wolf, assuming Apple releases a Windows version of its service. Wolf believes Apple could…
Apple’s iTunes music service may be delayed by almost a year in Europe while the interminable rights issues are resolved, according to this…
Apple’s music subscription service iTunes will not be rolled out in Europe until next year, due to disputes between record companies and the…
Apple’s iTunes music store had sold 5 million song downloads since its inception eight weeks ago.
Mary Jo Foley is not so sure that Microsoft and Apple will be forever joined at the hip, despite the two companies public posturing. Among t…
“Since record companies are desperate for new means of distribution, shouldn’t they be looking for access to the iPod rather than just iTune…
Apple has sold 3.5 million songs since it launched its iTunes music store at the end of April. The computer manufacturer is selling about 50…
On Thursday, programmer James Speth released a hastily written piece of software called 401(ok) that restores Net-wide music streaming to iT…
On Apple’s dilemma on not being able to get into music business because of Beatles…”It’s clear that Apple wants into the music business so…
Amazon.com may seek partners such as Apple Computer and song distributor MusicNet for help in starting an online music service, according to…
“Apple is the new MTV,” said Numair Faraz, 18, who has started several online service companies. “It is the new funnel for music. When thing…
Apple Computer has limited a music-sharing feature from the latest version of iTunes after some Mac owners used it to swap songs over the In…
A promising new set of chips, a possible Quark version for OS X, a surge in online advertising, and a new music store could goose sales — a…
“The [Apple] service feels like half a loaf–it only begins to offer the music experience that is possible with the Internet….I’m talking…
Apple is negotiating with major European record labels to launch a version of its hugely successful iTunes online music download store befor…
Apple Computer’s iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners to share music collections across the Internet.
“His next step would be to apply Apple’s design elegance and create an “iTV” device that integrates with Macintosh OS X, the Internet, and y…
Apple is pulling [micropayments mechanism] off using the traditional credit card system. Everyone knows your profit margin is eaten alive in…
Mindful that the vast majority of computer users have Microsoft operating systems, Apple rivals are ramping up plans to offer similar perman…
Audible.com, the spoken/downloadable audio subscription service, is now available to all users of Apple’s new iPod digital audio players.
Apple Computer said that its new iTunes Music Store, launched last week, sold more than 1 million songs in its first week of operation. In a…
The Apple’s subscription music service, which went live Monday, sold an estimated 275,000 tracks at 99 cents apiece in its first 18 hours, a…
Apple Computer’s new music service could help shift the battle to control digital media away from Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, acco…
“According to academics who’ve studied the economics of digital music distribution, the cost still seems too high to attract users of peer-t…
David Pogue of NYT reviews the new music service: “Among the Music Store’s many grace notes and pleasant surprises, the most amazing is the…
“But what Jobs didn’t note is the debt he owes to those services and to the defunct music companies that came before them, which have spent…
Buried at the end of the long, long Fortune story I linked to below, a tantalizing possibility: “AOL has been trying to develop its own musi…
A fawning series of exclusive stories on Apple’s new music service, including an interview with Steve Jobs, a review of the iTunes music ser…
The incredibly-hyped Apple online music service has been launched today. The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee,…
“The key here is whether consumers will be forced to have a subscription, or can download tracks and pay as they go,” said Josh Bernoff, sen…
A front-page story in the Wal Street Journal today: “According to people who have met with Mr. Jobs, the new service is integrated with Appl…
Reasons why Steve Jobs should stay clear of UMG. “No company has successfully managed to be both a device maker and a content producer at th…
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, declined to comment on its forthcoming online music service and its reported talks to buy Vivendi’s Unive…
Which is a kick start for the micropayments industry, long plagued by poor adoption by consumers as well as media companies.
Apple’s new ser…
Apple will hold a special event on April 28, 2003, according to an invitation received at MacCentral. While the invitation was not specific,…
“Jobs has tried to strike a balance between the entertainment industry’s protectionist stance toward music, and the attitude of some in the…
“To pull it off, Jobs would have to get enough labels and artists to agree to a simple 99 cents-a-song approach: a stiff challenge. That’s w…
A program that allows Mac users to share music playlists over the Internet has been published again, after Apple shut down the original vers…
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has denied that his company made a bid for Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music Group. “Apple has never made any offe…
“The new music service will be integrated with Apple’s iTunes music software, which currently is employed by Mac users to organize and play…
A detailed story on how bidding for Vivendi’s Universal Music Group has fallen flat, including considering Apple’s bold bid. “Talks in recen…
Or so says NY Times. “The talks between Apple and Vivendi covered the concept of buying as much as a third of the music unit, according to p…
Stories following Apple’s reported ambition to buy Universal Music from Vivendi for $6 billion:
–Now It’s Microsoft: Microsoft has express…
(free registration): Apple Computers in talks with Vivendi Universal to buy Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, for a…
Apple Preparing Digital Music Service: Apple Computer is preparing an online music-buying service for Macintosh and iPod users and is close…
Apple’s .Mac Unveils Paid Web Services: Not directly related to content, but Apple has unveiled an online suite called .Mac. For an annual f…