This morning at a press conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Ping, a social network for music that will be bundled into the next version of iTunes, its music software.
After ten iterations of iTunes, Ping marks …
As part of version 10 of iTunes, Apple announced its Ping social network for music fans. The new social network lets you publicly announce the music that you like. You can share it with your friends and make Twitter-like comments …
Apple today announced a number of upgrades to its music and media service, iTunes. Most notably, it’s giving iTunes a social layer. Chief executive Steve Jobs showed off a service called Ping, which he described as Facebook or Twitter for …
As if we needed more evidence that Apple is planning to launch a new Apple TV (which will most likely be called iTV), now there’s word that the company is preparing to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 …
Apple reported today that iTunes U — its catalog of educational files on iTunes — has topped 300 million downloads following a flurry of new content.
The section now offers more than 350,000 audio and video files from over 800 …
Apple has added a new “Try Before You Buy” section to the App Store on iTunes and iOS devices today in an attempt to promote “lite”, or free, versions of paid applications, reports 9 to 5 Mac.
But don’t get …
Amazon may be planning some major changes for its MP3 store, which competes with Apple’s iTunes store. The online retailer is apparently aiming to relaunch the MP3 store’s API (which allows developers to build software that communicates with the store) …
Apple has finally responded to reports of fraud on iTunes this weekend — which involved a rogue developer who managed to overtake the App Store e-book category, potentially by hacking into some iTunes accounts.
In a statement, Apple confirms that …
Earlier this weekend, reports emerged that a third-party developer had hacked into people’s App Store and iTunes accounts in order to boost sales of their e-books (a somewhat strange target considering how low e-book sales are through these channels).
The …
Apple is poised to launch a cloud version of its iTunes software, possibly providing a host of new services for the company’s dedicated users, according to Boy Genius Report.
Boy Genius said it believes the cloud-based service is coming soon. …
Apple’s App Store — which houses applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad — may not be the huge moneymaker that some think. Just two weeks ago, Steve Jobs announced at the WorldWide Developer Convention that over 5 billion …
On Monday evening, Apple shut down music service Lala, which it bought in December of 2009. The shutdown had been announced a month ago, but Apple’s plans seem hazier now than they did then. Rumors of a cloud-based iTunes music …
Federal investigators have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies about online music sales and, particularly, about Apple’s conduct in that market, according to a breaking New York Times report.
The investigation is separate from the Federal Trade …
Google gave a brief glimpse of what appears to be a Web-based competitor to Apple’s iTunes Store during the company’s keynote session at the I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The service would let users find, purchase and download songs …
Search for a popular song on Google, and the first result is often a playable link to the song on Lala, a service launched by entrepreneur Bill Nguyen in 2006 and sold to Apple in December of last year.
Nguyen’s …
Apple is bringing on Matt Casamassina, an editor at News Corp.-owned video-game website IGN, to spearhead editorial content for iPhone and iPad games on the App Store. He announced the move on Thursday via a recent blog post.
Casamassina describes …
Opera Software’s publicity stunts have paid off in many ways. The browser maker used a series of stunts to pressure Apple into accepting its Opera Mini iPhone app, and now Opera’s underdog struggle has led to massive support for the …
“People don’t read anymore,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said when he was predicting the failure of the Kindle back in 2008. According to a new statistic, books have passed games as the largest category of apps for the iPhone in …
Spotify, the Swedish streaming music startup which has racked up more than 6 million users in Europe, has released a first glimpse at its much-awaited iPhone application. Spotify’s mobile efforts have been talked about as a potential iTunes killer, or …
It’s a sad day. We saw Yahoo! go through its second mass layoff in under a year. And now it’s being reported that National Public Radio — of which shows including All Things Considered, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…
