Apple gives iTunes a Latin beat
Apple infused iTunes with a Latin beat by dedicating part of the online digital entertainment store to Spanish-language music, videos, audio books, podcasts and television shows.
The iTunes Latino portion of the website featured music genres including Mexican, alternative rock, pop, Reggaeton and classic rock. Some artists provided exclusive offerings for iTunes, Apple said.
“We’re thrilled to [...]
Apple iPod Shipped With Viruses
Apple warned customers this past Tuesday of a shipment of iPods, the leading digital music player, has been infected with a Windows virus. A small number of iPods that were created after September 12th, 2006, have a nice surprise for users in the form of the RavMonE virus.
Apple claims that there have only been [...]
Apple’s Profit Up on IPod, Mac Sales
The i’s have it: Intel and iPod helped drive quarterly sales and profit up sharply at Apple Computer Inc. as the company continued to dominate portable entertainment and gained traction against rival computer makers.
Apple’s shift this year to chips made by Intel Corp. boosted sales of Macintosh computers to their highest level since the 1999 [...]
DVD Jon Fairplays Apple
DRM-buster DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it’s a big piece of fruit. He has reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple’s devices. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he’s already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to [...]
New Apple patch plugs Wi-Fi hijack flaws
A trio of security flaws in Apple Computer software that runs wireless-networking hardware could allow Macs to be hijacked over Wi-Fi, Apple said Thursday.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company released security updates to repair the problems, which together affect the AirPort wireless driver in Mac OS X 10 Panther version 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7, [...]
Conroe-L, the brains behind Apple’s iTV?
Back in May, we mentioned the emergence of Intel roadmaps featuring the mysterious Conroe-L, a single-core processor from Intel aimed at the very lowest end of the PC market. Even though Conroe-L is based on the Conroe/Merom microarchitecture that powers the Core 2 Duo line, the budget-oriented processor will have only one core, which will [...]
US urges European regulators to lay off Apple DRM
A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official has joined the debate surrounding Apple’s proprietary digital music technology by criticizing European antitrust activities, but groups attacking Apple are defending their actions.
Speaking in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s antitrust division, warned that forcing companies to reveal their intellectual property stifles [...]
Apple broadens iTunes use with PC-to-TV device
Aiming to solidify its dominance in digital media, Apple began selling movie downloads from Disney on Tuesday and introduced a device to take music, movies and photos from PCs to the TV.
At an event in San Francisco, Apple CEO
Steve Jobs also announced upgrades across its line of iconic iPod music and video players.
“Apple basically made [...]
Upcoming Apple event could mean more than movies
Apple had just completed announcing updates to its iMac and Mac mini offerings Wednesday, when talk turned to the next Apple product announcement—a press event slated for next week in San Francisco. All signs—and Apple’s own invitation to the September 12 event— point to the company taking the wraps off a long-rumored movie download store. [...]
Apple, Amazon silent about reports of online movie services
IPod-maker Apple and Internet retailer Amazon remained mum regarding reports that each was poised to launch online movie services.
“Apple doesn’t comment on rumour or speculation,” a spokesman for the Cupertino, California, company told AFP.
Amazon also had nothing to say regarding the reports, according to Sean Sundwall, public relations manager at the Seattle, Washington, based firm.
“There [...]
