Defunct Online VOD Company Intertainer Sues Apple, Google And Napster Over Patent
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The Un-Apple iPhone
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An iPhone has launched. However, it’s not from Apple, but from Linksys. “Gadgets launched under the iPhone brand include a couple of wifi-en… Read more »
Forrester Analyst Decries Coverage Of His iTunes Sales Report
Last night, we wrote about a Forrester Research report on iTunes sales. Today, analyst Josh Bernoff weighs in via his own blog with the head… Read more »
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Apple To Introduce MVNO Wireless Service In ’07, UBS Says
By James Quintana Pearce
And so it goes…UBS telecom analyst John Hodulik has asserted that Apple plans an MVNO, buying airtime from Cingular. There’s no evidence f… Read more »
When Numbers Mean Anything And Nothing: iTunes Sales; FIM-YHOO
It would be easy to report a couple of stat-based stories making the rounds — iTunes sales slowing and FIM beating Yahoo in page views –… Read more »
Kanellos On The Apple Phone Flop
By James Quintana Pearce
Michael Kanellos at CNet has given a nice contrarian view about any potential iTunes enabled phone which may be in the works… He raises a… Read more »
IPhone Already In Production?
By James Quintana Pearce
For those who are waiting, there’s a claim that Apple has already started manufacturing the iPhone. “This morning, Prudential’s Jesse Tortor… Read more »
@ Media Week: CSFB Day 2: Disney CFO Staggs: Disney.com May Offer Downloads; No Timetable
Durng an informal session with reporters following the CSFB lunch q-and-a, Disney CFO Tom Staggs said the company could offer downloads thro… Read more »
Apple Seeks U.S. Patent for Combo Mobile Phone, IPod
By James Quintana Pearce
OK, now we’re getting warm… Bloomberg reports that Apple has filed a patent for “a device that may combine a mobile phone with its iPod mu… Read more »
Beatles To Debut Only On iTunes?
By Rafat Ali
The biggest holdout in digital music is coming to digital stores soon, as I reported earlier last month in my interview with David Munns, CE… Read more »
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Video iPod Not Cutting It Yet?
By Rafat Ali
So says some new research by Nielsen Media Research, and it says that audio is more popular than video, which is of course an obvious thing… Read more »
Target, Disney in DVD truce; Controversy Over iTunes Movie Downloads Pricing
By Rafat Ali
Hopefully Wal-Mart and others will also see the light of the day after this…U.S. retailer Target and Walt Disney have reached an uneasy tr… Read more »
Apple iPhone In Production?
By James Quintana Pearce
Forbes quoted (what I think is a Taiwanese) newspaper Commercial Times about “industry sources” claiming that “Hon Hai Precision Industry Co… Read more »
Six Airlines Integrating iPods Into In-Flight Audio, Video Systems
Apple comes up with a “Zune Day” announcement designed to point out how much of the world the iPod already owns … Sometime in mid-2007,… Read more »
Disney By The Numbers: Nearly 500,000 Movies Sold On iTunes; Nearly 19 Million Episodes On ABC.com
Disney CEO Bob Iger updated some of its online content delivery stats during Thursday’s earnings call. The numbers are current as of this we… Read more »
MSN Music Killing Download Service Nov. 14; Will Push Zune, Rhapsody Instead
Ending months of confusion about MSN’s download music strategy, the two-year-old MSN Music store — which never really gained traction in th… Read more »
Apple Claims First Music Download Victim In Japan — Or So Claims Oricon
Japanese music chart publisher Oricon is dropping its music download service, bowing to pressure from Apple iTunes Japan, estimated to have… Read more »
Earnings: Apple Execs: iTunes Store Helps Sell Macs
Apple’s last earnings call of the fiscal year started with execs crowing about the success the company has had converting to Intel architect… Read more »
Earnings: Apple Profit Soars 27 Percent As Options Issue Lingers
By Jamie Poitra
Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter profit soared 27 percent to $546 million, or 62 cents per share, fueled by gains in shipments of both iPods an… Read more »
iPod Reality Distortion Field Turns Five
By Jimmy Guterman
iPods are cool and useful, but the fifth anniversary of the digital music player is getting an enormous hype party — the full cultural mile… Read more »
CNET: More On Bonnie’s Resignation, Options Query
Shelby Bonnie’s resignation as CNET chairman and CEO comes as companies ranging from Apple to United Health are feeling the effects of inves… Read more »
PBS Continues Online Push With iTunes Video
PBS is adding a third online download venue. The same seven shows that are available on Google Video and OMN — Antiques Roadshow, Nova, Art… Read more »
Major DVD-Seller Target Wants Level Playing Field From Studios: Report
Target, responsible for about 15 percent of DVD sales, is the latest retailer to express dismay about download deals being made at a better… Read more »
Jobs Knew About Stock Options
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Steve Jobs has admitted that he knew of “a few instances” when Apple’s stock options were being backdated by employees. The three-month inte… Read more »
Poetry For Your Pod
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
In a past life, a colleague showed me an arts project they’d worked on that involved sending a daily poem to people’s mobiles for a small su… Read more »
After Microsoft Zune and Sansa Rhapsody, Will There Be Room for Your Own Music on New Devices?
By Jimmy Guterman
One of the more intriguing elements of the Zune announcement was Microsoft’s promise that the devices would include several dozen pieces of… Read more »
Co-opting DRM As a Business Model
By Rafat Ali
The DRM-buster DVD Jon is at it again: after a short stint at MP3.com founder Michael Robertson’s various ventures, he has reverse-engineere… Read more »
Apple and Wal-Mart In Talks Over Movie Download Revenue Share; Studios Wait Until Q4 End
By Rafat Ali
So reports Variety: the intractable issue of how the DVD margins would get affected at a retailer like Wal-Mart if the movie downloads marke… Read more »
Apple, Mobile Firms Agree On UK Music Royalties
By Rafat Ali
Apple’s iTunes and mobile operators including Vodafone have agreed on royalty rates to pay song writers and music publishers for digital and… Read more »
Zune Coming Nov. 14; Will List At $249
By Jimmy Guterman
The offical retail details are out on first-gen Zune … It’ll cost $249, as expected. If you want to spend more, the press release promises… Read more »
More Grist For The iPhone Rumor Mill
By James Quintana Pearce
Apparently the latest update to iTunes (v7.0.1) has “buttloads of mobile phone mentions”. Code samples are given on the page… Read more »
MLBAM Yanks Podcasts Off iTunes
While other content providers flock to iTunes, Major League Baseball is heading in the other direction as part of its constant quest for con… Read more »
Apple Claiming Rights To Podcast Terms
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
This has been bubbling for the last few days: Apple’s having a “pod” brand crackdown and last week sent a cease-and-desist to Podcast Ready… Read more »
Rumor: Apple iPhone To Be Cingular-Exclusive At Launch
By James Quintana Pearce
Rumors are rife that “Apple and Cingular have signed an agreement that will make the US’ largest cell phone provider the exclusive carrier o… Read more »
Apple Faces Scandinavian Allegations; Google Seethes Over Belgian Ruling
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Representatives from four Scandinavian countries have been meeting with Apple over what is claimed to be iTunes’ violation of customer prote… Read more »
MIXX: Harvey Weinstein On Downloads: “Business Of Convenience”
A fascinating interview about movie making and Harvey Weinstein’s career with precious little having anything to do with interactive media.… Read more »
Communacopia XV: Iger: $50 Million From iTunes Movies In First Year; Disney.com Relaunch In Early ’0
More than 125,000 Disney downloads were sold in the first few days following the addition of movies to the Apple’s iTunes, bringing in about… Read more »
iTunes Conversion Ratio In Europe At About 20 Downloaded Songs Per iPod
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Jupiter’s latest research into music consumption habits of iPod owners will make for uncomfortable reading. The tip of the iceberg is the iT… Read more »
HMV Struggles On With Digital, Apple Is The Roadblock
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
Music and books retail group HMV is abandoning its sleeping-with-the-enemy tactic of selling books via Amazon, relaunching its own retail si… Read more »
Microsoft Zune: Interview, Bryan Lee, Corporate VP/CFO, Entertainment and Devices Division
[By Staci D. Kramer] One aspect is clear following a phone interview about Zune with Bryan Lee, Microsoft corporate VP and CFO, Entertainmen… Read more »
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