Let’s Kill iPod and iTunes
Apple’s iPod has almost 80 percent of the US music player market, while iTunes has 70 percent of US digital music sales. Other online music stores cannot sell music files encoded with Apple’s DRM, and competing devices cannot play these files. With such a dominance, the rest of the competitors had to do something to [...]
WWDC surprise: Apple to announce iTunes movie rentals
With three weeks until Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Think Secret has learned exclusively that CEO Steve Jobs will use his keynote address to announce the debut of movie rentals through the iTunes Music Store. While the announcement will undoubtedly be billed as a further extension of iTunes’ dominance in digital media downloads, it represents a [...]
Apple delays Scandinavian iTunes reaction
Apple has been given more time to defend the Digital Rights Management (DRM) in iTunes, which has fallen foul of Scandinavian regulators. It now has until 1 August to prepare its case. The Norwegian Ombudsman ruled in June that the terms and conditions for iTunes were unlawful and have to be changed. The body gave [...]
MTV Offers More Shows Through iTunes
Despite having a digital-music service that competes directly with iTunes, MTV Networks has decided to offer several more of its TV shows through Apple’s music store. The MTV programming includes shows from Spike TV, Nick at Nite, TV Land, and The N.
Spicing up the menu of choices available on iTunes are programs that include MTV’s [...]
French lawmakers approve ‘iTunes law’
French lawmakers gave final approval Friday to legislation that could force Apple Computer Inc. to make its iPod and iTunes Music Store compatible with rivals’ music players and online services.
Both the Senate and the National Assembly, France’s lower house, voted in favor of the copyright bill, which some analysts said could cause Apple Computer Inc. [...]
MTV says it will sell videos on iTunes
Viacom Inc.’s (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) MTV Networks on Thursday said it has begun selling more of its shows at Apple Computer Inc.’s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iTunes digital media store.
Original programs from Viacom’s Spike TV, TV Land, MTV and Logo channels can now be purchased for $1.99 per episode. Earlier, Viacom’s Comedy Central network [...]
France Softens iTunes Law, but Apple Is Still Disgruntled
Leading French lawmakers voted Thursday to water down a draft copyright law that could force Apple Computer to make its iPod music player and iTunes online store compatible with rivals’ offerings.
But the changes did not appear to go far enough to satisfy Apple, which dropped the strongest hint yet that it might withdraw from the [...]
France rolls over on iTunes DRM-busting law
France has given the thumbs-up to the defanged version of a controversial law that would have forced Apple Computer to open up its iTunes digital rights management to players other than its iPod.
The Dadvsi law, which originally included provisions to allow people to crack DRM protections and oblige Apple to interoperate with its rivals’ music [...]
Firefox, iTunes, Skype Top Most Dangerous List
Firefox, iTunes, and Skype were the top 3 applications in a list of 15 with the most security vulnerabilities, a Cambridge, Mass.-based security company said this week.
The list from Bit9 calls out applications frequently downloaded by individuals (and thus perhaps not sanctioned by the enterprise) which have at least one critical vulnerability, and that rely [...]
