Wed, Nov 4, 2009 - The Beatles announced Wednesday they will release their music catalog digitally in December, but the iconic group's songs are still not due for release on iTunes. ( 87 comments )
Wed, Nov 4, 2009 - Apple has begun to promote music-themed movies on the iTunes Store with a new landing page, a place the company plans to fill with exclusive content. ( 9 comments )
Tue, Oct 20, 2009 - Though it has long been a company that shied away from social media, Apple has recently decided to further embrace Twitter to promote new content on iTunes. ( 12 comments )
Thu, Oct 15, 2009 - Apple has investigated a method to make imperfections in compressed video files less visible to the human eye, a new patent application revealed this week shows. ( 50 comments )
Wed, Oct 14, 2009 - Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson reportedly will allow the artist's new album to be sold on the iTunes Music Store, dispelling a rumor to the contrary that surfaced early Wednesday. ( 20 comments )
Fri, Oct 2, 2009 - The lawsuit between rapper Eminem's publisher and Apple over the sale of the artist's songs on iTunes was reportedly settled out of court Thursday evening. ( 43 comments )
Fri, Sep 25, 2009 - Unable to reach a settlement before Thursday, Eight Mile Style, publisher of rapper Eminem, and Apple went to trial over royalties for the sale of the artist's songs on iTunes. ( 17 comments )
Wed, Sep 23, 2009 - If Apple and Eight Mile Style LLC, publisher of artist Eminem, are unable to resolve a dispute by Thursday, the two parties will end up in trial over the sale of songs on iTunes. ( 41 comments )
Thu, Sep 3, 2009 - Apple is rumored to have struck a deal with the music industry and obtained the right to sell "ready-made ringtones," and company officials are reportedly rushing to have them available for next week's event. ( 31 comments )
Tue, Aug 18, 2009 - A data center expert believes Apple's new, massive cluster of computers in North Carolina could be intended to power a giant cloud computing operation. ( 52 comments )
Tue, Aug 4, 2009 - A new report alleges that T-Mobile U.K. is secretly supplying the iPhone 3G unlocked, but only to its highest spending customers who threaten to transfer to another wireless carrier. ( 18 comments )
Wed, Jun 3, 2009 - Just one day after North Carolina lawmakers approved changes to the state’s corporate tax laws designed to lure Apple and a $1 billion server farm project to one of their rural communities, the state's Governor signed Senate Bill 575 into law and announced that the iPhone maker is coming to town. ( 21 comments )
Tue, Jun 2, 2009 - North Carolina lawmakers debated for less than a minute on Monday before approving changes to the state's corporate tax laws designed to lure Apple and a $1 billion server farm project to one of their rural communities. ( 69 comments )
Fri, May 29, 2009 - The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple's internal training materials. ( 36 comments )
Thu, May 28, 2009 - Canadian iTunes users are seeing the first wave of HD TV shows crop up on the localized version of the digital download service. Meanwhile, a new report claims that the Apple logo on the third-gen iPhone will illuminate just as the iPhone maker is said to be taking receipt of logic boards for the new handsets ahead of production. ( 39 comments )
Tue, May 26, 2009 - European regulators this week are pushing the music industry to reform licensing terms that have prevented services like Apple's iTunes Store from selling their catalog of music tracks uniformly across the continent. ( 25 comments )
Thu, May 7, 2009 - Apple has put some effort into conceptualizing a family of next-generation wireless iTunes kiosks that can be placed just about anywhere, allowing users of its portable products to load their devices with a new full-length movie or audio album during travel, in areas where wireless networks may be unavailable. ( 59 comments )
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 - Apple authorized reseller Best Buy will soon add its name to a growing list of firms bidding for a slice of the online movie download business, according to a new report. ( 44 comments )
Thu, Apr 16, 2009 - Price increases that took effect on Apple's iTunes Store last week reportedly hurt unit sales of some of the most popular songs but ultimately managed to drive marginal increases in overall revenues for the digital download service. ( 42 comments )
Thu, Apr 16, 2009 - Apple announced Thursday that movies from five major film studios and a handful of independent movie production houses are now available for rent or purchase on the iTunes Store in Germany. ( 30 comments )
Wed, Apr 8, 2009 - The results of Piper Jaffray's 17th bi-annual teen survey are in, showing Apple to have broadened its lead in the areas of iPod consumption and iTunes usage -- both of which are nearing their saturation point -- as the company moves to translate these successes to its iPhone business. ( 59 comments )
Tue, Apr 7, 2009 - Tuesday marks the end of Apple's one-price-fits-all model at the iTunes Store, where songs will now fall into one of three pricing tiers, with many of the most popular tracks commanding a 30% increase from 99 cents to $1.29. ( 203 comments )
Mon, Apr 6, 2009 - Apple on Monday afternoon released a small update to iTunes that enables HD movie rentals on a Mac or PC while also delivering improvements for syncing media to its multi-touch devices. ( 24 comments )
Thu, Mar 19, 2009 - Once only available through the Apple TV, HD movies can now be purchased or rented directly through iTunes on Macs and PCs. ( 85 comments )
Tue, Mar 10, 2009 - $200 iTunes Gift Certificates are selling for less than $3 in China now that a group of local hackers has circumvented Apple's algorithm for creating the digital vouchers and built their own gift certificate generators. ( 73 comments )
Mon, Mar 9, 2009 - Universal Music has prevailed in a case that would have otherwise given millions more to artists for the sale of their songs on digital download services such as Apple's industry-leading iTunes Store. ( 35 comments )
Thu, Feb 26, 2009 - Hip hop mogul Eminem this week became the first artist to take a legal stand against record labels over royalties for tracks sold through digital download services like Apple's iTunes, an increasing source of tension between the two sides now that a significant percent of music sales are being made online. ( 84 comments )
Tue, Feb 24, 2009 - Apple this week is testing a new feature of its digital download service called iTunes Pass, which will buy shoppers access to all of their favorite bands' iTunes-related releases and exclusive material over a set time period. ( 41 comments )
Wed, Feb 11, 2009 - Apple is believed to be wrapping up a new feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company's servers for playback anywhere, anytime without eating up local storage. ( 60 comments )
Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - Apple on Thursday began offering iTunes shoppers the ability to upgrade their songs to higher-quality DRM-free tracks on an individual basis, doing away with an earlier mandate that required customers to upgrade their entire libraries all at once. ( 30 comments )
Mon, Dec 15, 2008 - Record labels negotiating the removal of copy protecting measures from tracks sold on the iTunes Store are each looking for Apple to agree to certain concessions, according to a new report. ( 51 comments )
Wed, Dec 10, 2008 - Exclusive deals between Hollywood studios and the networks that secure the rights to broadcast their feature films on TV are the reason iTunes shoppers are seeing movies disappear from the service in bunches, according to a new report. ( 41 comments )
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 - Apple appears poised to make good on its promise and reduce the cost of songs sold through its iTunes Store in the UK. Meanwhile, BBC is rumored to have reached an agreement to sell TV shows from its Worldwide subsidiary on the Apple download service. And yet another rumor has Flash support for the iPhone arriving imminently. ( 55 comments )
Mon, Feb 18, 2008 - Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Interactive Media, 19 Entertainment, FremantleMedia and Apple have announced a partnership that will bring music fans all of the contestant performances from Season Seven of television’s most popular show exclusively on the iTunes Store. ( 11 comments )
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