items tagged with iTunes

Europe goes bananas over Apple
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-06-26 09:58:12
As a casual non-European observer, where technology is concerned, one would have to be a little bit frightened about what is taking place on the Continent right now. With the rest of Europe looking on approvingly, France and the Scandinavian triumvirate of Sweden, Denmark and Norway are attempting to censure Apple for tying one piece of its intellectual property to another piece of its intellectual property.

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Europe steps up pressure on iTunes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2007-01-24 18:57:52
A push by Nordic countries to force Apple to make tracks purchased from the iTunes Store playable on mobile devices other than iPods is spreading to other nations.

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Europe, the new IP Soviets
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-01-25 20:03:31
Question for European governments: does a company have a right to protect intellectual property it spent hundreds of millions to develop or is that IP by government decree suddenly the property of the state? Another question: are 100 million iPod owners around the world wrong in CHOOSING to be bound by Apple's conditions of purchase?

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European Commission takes another shot at Apple's iTunes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-04-03 04:35:14
Some days, you just can't take a trick. I don't usually feel sorry for people that get a corporate jet as part of their salary package, but I can empathise with Steve Jobs. Just as EMI and Apple introduce music without DRM to the iTunes Store, the European Commission finds something else to complain about.

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European Commission, miffed by record companies, charges Apple
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-04-04 03:38:34
Apple has been forced to take the heat for the business practices of record companies in Europe after regulator the European Commission (EC) charged Apple with anti-competitive practices over the way iTunes operates in different EU countries. The EC has a problem with the way iTunes differentiates between residents of the various EU countries, while recognizing that problem has been imposed upon Apple by the record companies.

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Excitement builds over iPhone/iPod Touch SDK
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-10-21 13:00:13
After 10 months of more Apple coverage than ever, thanks mostly to the iPhone, and the things that can and can’t be done with one, the SDK announcement has restored faith in many users who thought Apple had begun turning to ‘the dark side’.

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Exploit for QuickTime vulnerability in circulation
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2007-11-26 14:44:15
A proof of concept exploit for a recently discovered QuickTime vulnerability has been released.

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EyeTV updated for Apple TV support
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-04-18 23:58:52
Version 2.4 of Elgato's popular EyeTV television tuner software for Mac OS X provides easy export to Apple TV.

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FINALLY: Movies come to iTunes in Australia and NZ!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-08-13 22:15:49
After an epic delay of years, Apple has finally managed to secure movie sales and rentals on the iTunes store for Australians and New Zealanders – but only in high-def through the Apple TV!

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Five billion iTunes served
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2008-06-19 18:29:24
Apple's market-leading iTunes Store has hit a new milestone: over five billion songs have now been purchased.

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Five years of iPod demonstrates Bach's prediction
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-10-22 00:45:13
Earlier this year, Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, predicted that it may take Microsoft up to five years to get into the music player business with Zune. He must have based that premise on the rise of iPod.

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Fly me to the Zune and let me sing among the iPods
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-11-11 06:23:34
Microsoft’s Zune digital music player is coming on Tuesday the 14th. Will Apple spoil the party and launch a widescreen wireless iPod on Monday?

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Forrester can't stand up for falling down over iTunes
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-12-14 05:41:26

Besieged by hedge fund managers and anxious Apple stockholders, research outfit Forrester today sought to distance itself from reporting of its research into digital download sales at Apple's iTunes Store.

Forrester report on slow iTunes sales wrong?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2006-12-14 10:06:27

The Forrester report which claimed iTunes sales were dropping off has been disputed by a ComScore report that says the opposite.

Fox offers free premiere episodes via iTunes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-09-24 00:41:37
The Fox network will offer free downloads of the premiere episodes of many of its new season TV shows via the iTunes Store.

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Fox TV shows join Apple iTunes download stable
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2006-05-09 11:50:42
The Apple Computer iTune online music store is fast turning into a digital entertainment mart with the announcement that it has started to sell TV shows from Fox TV networks at a cost of $1.99 a show, adding it to a stable of TV network suppliers that includes all the majors, including ABC, CBS and NBC.

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France and Germany want iTunes to be interoperable: fat chance
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-01-23 11:12:58
In an action tantamount to asking Gilette to make their blades compatible with Shick razors, European consumer organizations try to tell Apple what to do.

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France gives Apple le finger
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-07-01 03:23:41
For those who did not understand the reference to Euro pirates in our previous story "Euro pirates still on collision course with Apple" the term related to Apple Computer's description of new French legislation as state-sponsored piracy. In a nutshell, the laws are designed to force Apple to open up its iTunes downloads shop to all portable hardware devices- not just Apple's iPods. For Apple, this is indeed akin to state sanctioned legalised piracy.

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