Report – Some Video iPods Incompatible With iTunes Video Rentals
A report on Wired says that some iPods are not compatible with the iTunes video rental store. Not good news for fifth generation iPod owners planning on using the service.
“We just have to make [piracy] as difficult and as tedious as possible,” Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America said during an interview on [...]
Company targets Apple, Microsoft and others for not using enough DRM
What do Vista, Flash, RealPlayer, and iTunes have in common? According to Media Rights Technologies (MRT), all of them are infringing products under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and MRT has just sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple.
“Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the [...]
Survey: Despite interest, most won’t buy iPhone
Market research firm Markitecture reported Tuesday the results of a recent survey to judge interest in the iPhone among existing cell phone users. While the iPhone ranked surprisingly high in consumer awareness, most respondents said there was little, if any chance, that they’d actually buy one.
Based on a poll of 1,300 people who owned a [...]
Apple tells content partners it can soon offer DRM-free music
According to the MacRumors site, iTunes’ content partners will soon have the option of offering DRM-free music and music videos.
Perhaps in another bid to assuage European anti-trust concerns, Apple sent out a brief memo to its content partners that starting next month they will be able to offer DRM-free music and music videos.
The memo [...]
Steve Jobs: ‘No subscription-based iTunes’
Says customers not into renting music — and I agree.
Record labels have been supposedly asking Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its iTunes digital music download store in an attempt to increase profits but, Steve Jobs is adamant that “customers don’t seem to be interested in it”.
Apple is gearing up for [...]
Apple delays new operating system
Apple Inc said on Thursday it was delaying the release of its new computer operating system, sending its shares down 3 percent.
The company said its eagerly anticipated iPhone was on schedule to ship in late June as planned after passing several of its required certification tests.
But it said delivering the phone on time contributed to [...]
iTunes adds MGM Films
Watch out BitTorrent Entertainment Network, for beginning today, iTunes customers will be able to purchase video content from the “largest modern film library in the world.”
A month back iTunes added content from Lionsgate films to its popular online movie download store, and today it has announced that it has secured access to MGM Studios film [...]
iTunes adds more movie titles
More bad news for the BitTorrent Entertainment Network.
iTunes, the world’s most popular online movie download store, has announced that movies from Lionsgate films will be available for download on the site starting today.
Among the titles to be included are “Terminator 2,” “LA Story,” “Basic Instinct,” “The Blair Witch Project,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Total Recall,” ” [...]
Cisco to sue Apple on iPhone name
Cisco Systems is suing Apple for trademark infringement in a US federal court, for using the iPhone name.
Apple launched its new handheld mobile phone device under the iPhone name on Tuesday, at the hotly anticipated Macworld event in San Francisco.
Following the launch Cisco said it hoped to resolve the matter by Tuesday evening after negotiations.
Apple [...]
Apple denies download sales fall
Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.
Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed that buyers were “reaching their saturation level for digital music”.
Apple said the report is “simply incorrect”, but will not [...]
