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Touch-Screen BlackBerry Coming!?

According to reports in today's Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, pesky Research In Motion (RIM) plans to introduce a touch-screen version of its BlackBerry to thwart the challenge posed by the popularity of Apple's iPhone. (And no wonder...

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CNET's Tech Tips Can't Be Beat

So many tech sites and so little time! With that in mind, I've always found CNET to be very useful, especially for its handy Tips & Tricks. In fact, it's usually my first stop when I've got to figure...

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Zune To Come with Copyright 'Cop'?

Now we know some (at least) of the reason that NBC pulled its TV shows, etc., out of iTunes and threw its lot in with Zune -- pricing and copyright protection. In a nutshell, NBC doesn't want to price...

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DRM-Free MP3 songs - You're joking, right?

Amazon.com today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. According to Amazon, every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music...

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iTunes streaming to mobile phone using Slingbox and Apple TV

Apple TV has become the ultimate hacker magnet allowing users to use the Apple TV in ways Apple hadn't intended. As discussed recently, Apple TV was hacked to allow Asterisk, the open-source IP-PBX to run on it. Check out the...

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Jobs, DRM and the Record Labels: It's a Finger-Pointing Festival!

Of course we're excited about Steve Jobs saying that he'd love to offer all of us free music on iTunes, but the record labels have his hands tied with their DRM schemes. (All kinds of reports on that here and here.)...

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Wal-Mart Does the iTunes Shuffle

Not too surprised, but happy to hear about the big boy of retailing, Wal-Mart, extend its reach into our homes by now offering video downloads of movies and TV shows through a partnership with all six of the major Hollywood studios (20th Century...

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Apple vs. Apple: All You Need Is Love

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Apple Inc. (aka Apple Computer) and Apple Corp. (aka The Beatles) have worked out their long, long, long dispute about who owns the Apple trademark. Now a glimpse of the details of the deal can...

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Is the Wii the Center of the Media Universe?

How about this for irony -- a simple hack enables Nintendo's Wii to access a computer's  media collection, with the Wii remote (you know, the one with the strap problem) then being used to view photos and browse iTunes playlists on a TV. ...

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Beatles on iTunes: Sooner Than You Think?

I heard the news today, oh boy ... Much buzz today about the apparent resolution of when and where (forget about if), the Beatles LPs/CDs will be available for download. More on that here. Not too surprised that Apple (working...

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Apple vs. Cisco over iPhone

I was just on the phone with Garvin Thomas, a reporter from NBC11 News who wanted my take on the iPhone lawsuit between Apple and Cisco and to discuss what he learned. First, when you search the US Patent and...

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How Much Is That Song in the Window?

Everybody (including me) wonders why music downloads all cost 99 cents (or so). (OK, Wal-mart is 88 cents per song). Well, now we have an interesting article today about wholesale music download pricing -- a fancy term for how much...

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Hey Why Not? Amazon To Enter Music Download Biz

And why not indeed! According to reports, shopping mogul Amazon is planning to launch its own music download store a la iTunes in the first quarter of next year. And why not indeed!Record labels aren't all too thrilled about iTunes...

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iPod vs. iTunes: The Guessing Game

While the iPod and iTunes are inevitably linked (they're both Apple products, right? and they are linked on the Apple web site), interesting New York Times article today on the ratio between the number of songs downloaded from iTunes as...

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Cupertino and Redmond from Allsop

It's about time someone decided to come out with computer desk and media accessories that have some uniformed style and grace. And that's just what the Cupertino and Redmond collections of computer and media accessories from Allsop offer. Finding inspiration...

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Record Companies Waking Up

Yes, indeed! It only took who knows how many years before a major record label decided to release "major artist" music as MP3 files. Kudos to Blue Note Records (owned by EMI) and Norah Jones deciding to go the MP3 route...

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Xbox 360 Live Movie/Video Downloads Skip the PC: Yes!

We blogged about it last week and now it's true. Users of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live video game service soon will be able to download TV shows like South Park and CSI as well as movies like V for Vendetta via deals inked with half...

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Take the Fifth -- Beethoven's Fifth ...

Free classical music downloads of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony launch The Philadelphia Orchestra’s online music store. (I like it!) The Philadelphia Orchestra is the first major American orchestra to offer consumers the opportunity to download recent and archival music directly through...

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Burn Baby Burn: Downloadable Movies to DVD

Let's get the lawyers out of the way! According to a CEA SmartBrief report, a film industry group plans to remove some of the hurdles that have prevented the legal recording of movies onto blank DVDs -- a further sign that Hollywood studios are...

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Apple iMovies: Why Not?

In the "Why not?" category comes the iTunes/movies linkup. Although Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold more than 15 million digitized TV shows and videos (who would have guessed?), it  has yet to begin selling feature-length movies. Is this due technical...

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Microsoft Zune takes on iPod

As several news sites have reported, Microsoft plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year to challenge the Apple iPod media player. The latest Apple iPod plays both music and videos...

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Microsoft iPod/iTune Killer Under Development?

All kind of noise yesterday about Microsoft developing a MP3 player to compete with Apple's iPod as well as a music download service to rival iTunes ... Hard to imagine this is any kind of "iPod/iTunes slayer" -- anybody think...

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Apple vs. Apple: How About Downloadable Beatles?

Much ado earlier this week about Apple Computer winning a British court case that enables it to keep its bitten-apple logo on iTunes. Seems that Apple Corps (representinng living and deceased members of the Fab Four) thought that symbol infringed...

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Apple vs. Apple: Round 3

Like the old Mad Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy, we now have the latest version of Apple vs. Apple.  According to Newsfactor, Apple Computer will meet the Beatles' Apple Corps in court this week in London, where a judge will decide...

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iTunes 'Free Download of the Week': What a Good Idea!

Really like that every week I get a chance to sample some new music free from iTunes. I've heard some really interesting and different music that I won't normally listen to or even know about on their "free download of...

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Announcement: We Have a Winner in Apple's iTunes Contest

Attention Apple iTunes shoppers! The 1 billionth legally downloaded song from the site, ”Speed of Sound” (purchased as part of Coldplay’s X&Y album), fell into the basket of Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan!As the grand prize winner, he will...

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iTunes Marches On To 1 Billion -- And You Can Win

I’m sure Apple in its wildest dreams never imagined that iTunes would be the runaway hit that it is.  As the iTunes Music Store heads toward download number 1 billion, Apple has 1 billion reasons to celebrate.  And to mark the...

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V CAST: Early Reviews See a Winner

Early results are in regarding Verizon Wireless' V CAST service and LG's VX8100 V CAST Music Phone -- it's a winner! An iPod cell phone! V CAST service is homage to iTunes and phone plays some great sounding music for...

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Now for Something Really Useful: 'SNL' for iPod

How much can we write about the iPod!  Lots, because there is simply so much news about Apple's little wonder. Under the "Now Here Is Something Really Useful" category comes news that Apple will sell a limited number of old...

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Samsung and Apple part ways

According to TMCnet, Samsung Electronics Co.'s talks with Apple Computer Inc. on a possible joint investment to produce NAND flash memory chips have broken down, Samsung said Monday.  The Korea Times newspaper reported Monday that a potential 4 trillion won...

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Stream iTunes to Mobile Phone using Skype

DittyBot is a cool script for Apple OS X that uses mobile email and VoIP (SkypeOut) to stream music from your iTunes collection to your cellphone. You simply send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email...

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iTunes and Windows Pocket PCs

I just got an interesting email offering me an eval copy of a new piece of software called ppcTunes that which they claim is the first tool of its kind to allow Windows iTunes users to auto-copy selected playlists to...