Once Radio, Retail, MTV Ruled — Now Record Companies Have To Go Through iTunes
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Apple Expects $499 Phones To Sell Fast
By James Quintana Pearce
Apple has dismissed critics who claim that $499 is too much for a mobile phone, reports The Seattle Times. The argument appears to be that p… Read more »
Mobile Games Companies Bring More Music To The Mix
By Peggy Anne Salz
Mobile media company Player X has partnered with Hollywood Gaming and EMI Music Publishing for a new mobile game concept that incorporates t… Read more »
Apple TV Delayed ‘Til Mid March
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Apple’s TV solution to let people play computer video on TV sets — originally due out in February — has been delayed until mid-March, repo… Read more »
Record Vets Look to Tech Companies for Future; Social Networking Star Tries the Record Industry
By Jimmy Guterman
It’s unclear whether the music business as we now know it has a future, and that’s true for the people on the periphery of the business, not… Read more »
Consumers Unwilling To Pay $500 For iPhone
By James Quintana Pearce
Compete Inc has issued the results of a survey showing that 26 percent of respondents said they are likely to buy an iPhone, but only one pe… Read more »
Apple iPhone Commercial Debuts During Oscars
By Rafat Ali
Watching the Oscars tonight and paid half-attention to this one, until the end of the ad: Apple debuted its first TV ad for iPhone, launchin… Read more »
Apple’s Plans For Ringtones
By James Quintana Pearce
This video on YouTube puts forward a convincing argument for Apple to sell ringtones for its iPhone…the most convincing part is the inclus… Read more »
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New Yorker Cartoons Available As Animated, Ad-Supported Podcasts
By David Kaplan
The New Yorker’s famous cartoons can now be viewed as an animated, ad-supported video podcast on iTunes through RingTales, an online animati… Read more »
Cisco, Apple Settle iPhone Dispute; Interoperability To be Explored
By Rafat Ali
Cisco and Apple have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark…the agreement will allow Apple to use the name in exchange for… Read more »
Cisco, Apple Settle iPhone Dispute; Interoperability To be Explored
By Rafat Ali
Cisco and Apple have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark…the agreement will allow Apple to use the name in exchange for… Read more »
‘House’ For ‘Earl’ Rights Swap Falls Through; No Streaming For NBCU-Produced Fox Hit
paidContent.org has learned that one of the biggest gaping holes in streaming of primetime shows — the lack of online replays of Fox doc hi… Read more »
The iPhone Backstory
By Rafat Ali
The backstory of how iPhone came together, though the Time magazine story was much better. This one from WSJ gets lost in “people familiar w… Read more »
Cisco Gives Apple More Time To Resolve Trademark Conflict
By Peggy Anne Salz
Cisco has said it will give Apple an extension until Wednesday (February 21) to respond to the lawsuit it recently filed over the iPhone tra… Read more »
@ 3GSM: iPhone Draws Suspicion And Imitation
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Robbie Bach On MSFT’s Mobile Philosophy Vs Apple
By Rafat Ali
Robbie Bach, the Entertainment and Devices unit president at Microsoft, did a Q&A with News.com on a bunch of mobile-related issues. And he… Read more »
Earnings: Lionsgate Reports Higher Quarterly Profit; Digital Delivery
By David Kaplan
Lionsgate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) reported higher FY 3Q07 revenues of $254.5 million, an 11 percent increase from the prior year’s quarter… Read more »
Lionsgate Films On iTunes; Starts With 150-Plus Titles
Lionsgate and Apple finally have an agreement to put the studio’s films on iTunes. The arrangement starts today; more than 150 titles, inclu… Read more »
Apple and Cisco Nearing Settlement; Interoperability Likely?
By Rafat Ali
So reports WSJ, after earlier reports about extension in negotiation deadlines following an earlier lawsuit: Apple’s new deadline to respond… Read more »
EMI In Talks To Sell Music Online Sans DRM; Potential Deal Could Change Industry
By Jimmy Guterman
This may turn out to be the most interesting week in digital music since Apple opened its online store. First, Steve Jobs told the major lab… Read more »
WMG’s Bronfman: Jobs’ Manifesto “Counter-productive”‘
The reviews of Steve Jobs’ DRM Manifesto are coming in from the music industry and the lines fall pretty much as you would expect. Take Edga… Read more »
@ Media Summit: Without A Seamless Model For Digital Revenue, Costs Will Rise
By David Kaplan
The costs of securing ownership rights for TV, film, music and photographs and any other media that can be digitized will rise significantly… Read more »
Amazon, TiVo Pair Up For PC-To-DVR Downloads
Amazon ups the download ante, at least among the 600,000 or so folks with TiVo hooked up to their home networks — well, actually a few hund… Read more »
This Just In: Steve Jobs To Music DRM: Drop Dead
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Beatles, Apple Settle Trademark Dispute; No Mention Of Anticipated iTunes Deal
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Inc., the company formerly known as Apple Computer, and the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. have settled their trademark disput… Read more »
Beatles, Apple Settle Trademark Dispute; No Mention Of Anticipated iTunes Deal
Apple Inc., the company formerly known as Apple Computer, and the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. have settled their trademark dispute yet again.… Read more »
10Q Watch: Apple’s Risk Factors: Competitors With Deep Pockets, Feds, Mobile Phone Market
We’ve written a bit here about the ongoing saga at Apple involved back-dated options and faked board meeting minutes. Now the company is rep… Read more »
Disney Sold 1.3 million Movies on iTunes in Three Months: Iger
By Rafat Ali
So said Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, in a video interview with FT.com (Text transcript here). The company, the first studio to sign onto iTunes… Read more »
Cisco Gives More Time To Apple Over iPhone Lawsuit Response
By Rafat Ali
Seems like a settlement is likely: Cisco and Apple have agreed to extend the time for Apple to respond to a lawsuit over the iPhone trademar… Read more »
Verizon Rejected iPhone Deal, Prior To Cingular
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Time will tell whether Verizon made a huge mistake, or was rational: Verizon Wireless passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor o… Read more »
Rogers To Offer iPhone in Canada?
By Rafat Ali
So goes the rumors online, that Canadian telco Rogers will be offering iPhone when it launches there. Apparently will be the exclusive provi… Read more »
Norway Forces Apple To Open Up iTunes
By Peggy Anne Salz
Considerable coverage today about Norway, joined by consumer groups in Germany and France, putting the pressure on Apple to embrace interope… Read more »
Norway Deems iTunes As Illegal, Based on Non-Operability With Other Devices
By Rafat Ali
This is the first such definitive country action against Apple and its iTunes store: Norway Read more »
@ MidemNet: Sony Ericsson Won't Follow Apple Down Touchscreen-Only Route
[By Robert Andrews] The “conversation with Miles Flint” session at MidemNet Sunday morning seemed like more of an opportunity for the Sony E… Read more »
Apple Results And The iPhone
By James Quintana Pearce
Apple posted some pretty good results but they weren’t as good as analysts were expecting, and EasyBourse is using that to look at whether t… Read more »
Apple's iPhone To Have A Margin Of 50 Percent? Others Estimates More Conservative
By Rafat Ali
This is buzzing around today: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate around a 50 per cent gross margin, according to research firm iSuppli.… Read more »
Apple's iPhone To Have A Margin Of 50 Percent? Others Estimates More Conservative
By Rafat Ali
This is buzzing around today: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate around a 50 per cent gross margin, according to research firm iSuppli.… Read more »
Earnings: Apple Reports Strong Holiday Quarter; Record Revenue Of $1 Billion
Apple turned in strong numbers for the quarter ending Dec. 30: record profit of $1 billion or $1.14 earnings per diluted share, on record qu… Read more »
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