items tagged with iTunes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Listening to loud music with earphones on a digital music player for more than 90 minutes a day can damage your hearing, according to a new U.S. study.

SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - If the music industry truly wants to loosen Apple's iron grip on digital music sales, it should start allowing music to be sold without digital rights management protection.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) doesn't expect the iPod media player to be hurt by Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Zune, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a magazine interview.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The personal trainer, once the must-have accessory of rich, image-obsessed Californians, is now within the reach of more people thanks to new technology.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, NEWS, Research) said on Thursday it is developing a video-capable Walkman, playing catch-up with Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) market-leading iPod.

LONDON (Reuters) - Digital music service providers MusicNet and Napster have agreed a three-year deal on royalty rates to pay songwriters and music publishers for digital downloads in Britain.

Can't be without your iPod even when you're halfway up a mountain and facing blizzard conditions? Then accessory maker Belkin has a weather-resillient wireless remote control just for you.

With all the talk about Windows Vista, seeing as both Vista RC1 (and now RC2) and Office 2007 are freely available to anyone with broadband fast enough to download it in a reasonable time, or a credit card to order copies on DVD, we thought we’d put Microsoft’s latest through its paces for ITWire. Here are the results!

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Electronics manufacturers railed against a European tax on recordable discs and music players like iPods on Friday, even as a Dutch industry group was getting ready to impose new local levies on recordable media.

Russian download store Allofmp3.com today responded with defiance to fresh US claims its activities are stalling Russia's attempts to join the World Trade Organisation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia should shut down a pirate music Web site that is robbing U.S. recording companies of sales if it wants to become a member of the World Trade Organization, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Free software advocates rallied against certain limits on copying music and films on Tuesday in a global "Day against DRM" (Digital Rights Management), saying consumers are robbed of their fair-use rights as entertainment goes digital and online.

NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - Napster Inc. said on Tuesday it launched an online song distribution site in Japan, challenging Apple Computer Inc. and popular music phones.

Nordic consumer protection regulators held a meeting with Apple this week to discuss changes to its iTunes music service and said they had made important progress.