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2022 posts filed under Apple News
Upcoming Motorola Phone Lacks iTunes Support
The upcoming revision to the ROKR will not include iTunes but instead a service from Motorola called iRadio. The iRadio service, will include 435 commercial-free radio channels, including genres such as Heavy Metal, Rockin' Cowboys and Angry Women. Its satellite rivals also provide specialized music…
Wearable Display for video iPods
eMagin Corp is a company that currently makes wearable display units for the military but it appears the focus maybe moving over to the industry, in particular video iPods. The company has developed a unit for the video iPod, the video appears in front of…
.Mac Shifts Bandwidth Limit to 1TB [Update 1]
It appears Apple have given all .Mac users a nice New Years present. .Mac seems to now be featuring 1TB (1024GB) of bandwidth every month. The figure can be seen in your account settings. [Update 1] Readers have noted that the figure has now disappeared…
Ive Honoured With CBE
Vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive has been honoured with a CBE in the Queens New Years Honours list. Ive is responsible for the look of many Apple products such as the iMac, Power Mac G4, Cube and most notably the iPod. Apple had…
iTunes Music Store saw Surge in Sales on Christmas Day
The FT is reporting today that "music downloading websites" saw a 50% rise on Christmas Day, supposedly down to hundreds of thousands of people unwrapping iPods and loading them with tunes. In particular Hitwise reckons that the iTunes Music Store saw a 50 percent rise…
Apple Rejoins Forbes’ Platinum 400
Apple has been ranked among the winners in Forbes' Platinum 400 list of Americas best big corporations, in particular these companies must have outperformed the S&P 500 over the previous 12 months. Apple was ranked 4th behind SanDisk, Holly, and Valero.
iPod Wireless Earbuds? [Update 1]
Some readers have noted over the last few days that Apple Stores in Japan have given their employees maroon coloured T-shirts with the slogan "Luck is in The Air" . The computers in the store also follow on the theme with screensavers displaying images of…
Power Outage Slows Apple’s POS Process
A power outage cut the power to Apple's inventory and management computer systems thus cutting links to credit card processing networks. The power cut forced retail stores to manually process credit card purchases for over 30 minutes, lines at some stores began to snake out…
iPod Settlement Now Final
On December 20th those who filed against Apple have been dismissed and the Settlement has been declared final, meaning Apple can move forward with claims administrations and fulfiment. View related site.
Apple Offers Free TV Downloads on iTunes
Apple has posted two new TV shows to the iTunes Music Store which are available free to download. The two new clips are: Saturday Night Live Short - Lazy Sunday - 2m 31s Sci Fi Inside: Battlestar Galactica - 21m 03s Of particular interest, it…
Mac mini - Big Ideas
Apple has posted a page that shows off some of the most useful features of its little hero the Mac mini.
Apple Implementing Anti-Piracy System?
With the recent mass of updates to Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack and very recently Aperture it has been discovered that Apple has implemented a form of anti-piracy control. TUAW has posted that the Soundtrack Pro update has not appeared in the Software Update Utility and…
Aperture 1.0.1 Update Released
Well as soon as I finished writing the previous post I discovered that the update has been released, here's what Apple had to say: "Aperture 1.0.1 Update addresses a number of issues related to reliability and performance. It also delivers improved image export quality and…
Apple Releases Final Cut Pro Update [Update 1]
Apple has today released an update for Final Cut Pro 5, the update weighs in at 85MB and is described simply as providing "Improved reliability" . View the update page [Update 1] It appears the updates pushes Final Cut Pro up to version 5.0.4.
Commander in Chief added to iTunes
ABC have added another popular TV Series to the line-up on iTunes, Commander and Chief, a very popular show in the US about a woman president is now available to download from the iTMS.
Shuffle Sold Out for Christmas
Apple online US store is reporting that the 1GB iPod Shuffle is out of stock, the website states: "Sold out for holiday. Expected availability mid-January." A sign of a revision to the iPod shuffle?
Apple to Expand Front Row
Apple has put up a job listing indicating that it has more in store for its Front Row application. The job description is as follows: "Do you want to join a team building revolutionary new multi-media software for Mac OS X? Would you like to…
HBO Digging for Deal With Apple
HBO CEO said today that the network is hoping to make a deal with Apple at some point to deliver its programming to the iPod, much like NBC. It appears Cingular have beaten Apple to the line as they have reported plans to send video…
Google Music
As reported a few months back Google has launched a new service which allows users to type in details of a song and receive back relevant results with links to online merchants. iTunes is listed as one of these online merchants, along with Real, Amazon…
Apple Settles up With Tiger Leaker
Apple today settled with the third man who leaked a pre-release copy of Mac OS X Tiger onto the internet in 2004. Apple have reached an agreement with David Schwartzstein who was a member of an Apple Developer group. Apple sued three men last December…