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French Law Changes to Cause iTunes Closure [Update]
Yahoo! News has been today reporting that French parliamentarians are hoping to push through a law that could open the iTunes Music Store to anyone and every device or worse close it down completely. The new law would allow consumers to be able to legally…
NCAA Basketball Tournament Coming to iTunes
Apple and CBS Sports have joined forces to bring us the 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships. The games will be available on the iTunes Music Store for $1.99 per or $19.99 for all 63 games which is making further use of the newly…
Apple Offers First Full Length Movie on iTunes
Today Apple posted the first full length movie on the iTunes Music Store. High School Musical is 1 hour and 39 minutes in length and was originally available to view on the Disney Channel, the download is 487MB and costs $1.99. This looks promising for…
Corrie Coming to an iPod Near You?
ITV bosses in a recent interview with a UK newspaper have confirmed that they have considered plans to make Coronation Street and ITV shows available on the UK iTunes Music Store. On a similar note both the BBC and ITV already have a scheme that…
Apple Offers Season Pass for TV Shows
Although not in full swing yet, Apple today introduced Season Pass for weekly TV shows. "Buy a Season Pass and get a whole season of a TV show, past or present, at a discount." Both Multi-Pass and Season Pass are buy-to-own systems which means when…
Multi-Pass Subscriptions for TV Shows
Well here it is, a major leap for Apple. Today they introduced a form of subscription service that they are calling Mulit-pass. "iTunes is launching the service in partnership with Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central Network, which is rolling out "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"…
NBC Universal Close to Closing iTunes UK Deal
Reports have been circling the Internet today that Apple UK is close to signing a deal with NBC Universal, the deal would mark the debut of TV video content outside of the US. According to reports NBC is planning to test the introduction with shows…
“Thanks a Billion”
Apple has reached its started of selling 1 billion songs on its iTunes Music Store. 1 billion songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Music lovers like you in 21 countries around the globe have purchased one billion songs from the iTunes…
Showtime Cable Network Posts Content on iTMS
Apple has once again added further video content to the iTunes Music Store. This time it adds shows from the Showtime network. Episodes available include Sleeper Cell, Weeds, and Fat Actress, as always episodes available for $1.99.
Countdown to 1 Billion Songs
Apple has announced its upcoming milestone of 1 billion song downloads. As always prizes will be awarded at every 100,00 song milestones starting at 950,100,000, prizes will include a 4GB Black iPod nano and a $100 iTunes Music Store card. The grand prize will be…
More Video Content Added to iTunes Music Store
Apple has once again expanded the selection of videos available on the iTunes Store. The content includes the following; South of Nowhere (Season 1) Soapography (Season 1) Spongebob SqaurePants (Season 1) Dora the Explorer (Season 1) Zoey 101 Beavis and Butt-head Laguna Beach Wonder Showzen…
Disney Short Films Available on iTMS
No less than 3 hours have the papers have been signed the iTMS has gained some new additions in the form of Disney Short Films, they are available for $1.99 and a total of 10 are available.
Apple Adds Further Video Content to iTunes
Apple has added the following shows the the US iTunes Store. ABC's "Wildfire" Season 1 and 2 NBC's "The Munsters" Season 1 ABC's "Ebert and Roeper at the Movies"
Apple Updates Podcasting Spec
Apple has sent an email to podcasters letting them know that it has revised its Podcasting guidelines. "Since you’ve got an active podcast listed in iTunes, we would like to let you know about a few valuable new resources: First, the technical spec has been…
Apple Denies Plans to Use UK Tax Loophole
Yesterday we reported on a story about Apple UK possibly using a VAT loophole that would allow the iTunes Music Store to sell VAT free songs. Apple has today denied this report by saying; "This report is not true"
Sony BMG Artists Now on iTMS Australia
The Australian iTunes Music Store has now begun selling artists from Sony BMG at the same price as other singles and albums. It looks like Apple got their own way on this one then...
VAT Free iTunes Songs in the UK?
What appears to be an exploit in the tax loophole could allow Apple to sell songs through the iTunes Music Store without VAT tagged on. This could bring the price of songs down to 67p. All Apple has to do is move some operations to…
Apple Adds More Content to iTunes
Apple is today adding further content to the iTunes Music Store, the content comes from the following networks, ABC Entertainment, Touchstone Television, ABC Family, ABC News, Buena Vista, SOAPnet, Disney Channel and some Walt Disney feature animations. In particular the addition of ESPN and ABC…
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…
iTMS to Sell Podcasts in Future
A new Firm by the name of What I Want Podcasting has promised to offer Podcasts for sale through the iTunes Music Store "in the very near future". In particular the company will offer footage from Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival which takes place…