Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 06:42 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Customers can now buy films in HD through a new section of the Apple iTunes store offering high definition movies for $9.99.
Titles include 3:10 to Yuma (2007), My Best Friend’s Girl (Unrated), and Bangkok Dangerous (2008).
iPodNN reports that there are about thirty fairly obscure movies for sale in the section and that titles can be rented for a base price of $2.
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 01:59 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
If one read the latest iTunes agreement, one would know that, by consenting, one gives Apple the right to collect “real-time geographic location” information on devices to “provide and improve location-based products and services.”
iPodNN reports that Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, federal justice minister of Germany, has called on California-based Apple, Inc. to make the details of its handheld location data collection public.
Continue reading German feds want details on Apple data collection.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 04:36 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
This afternoon, Apple introduced iTunes 9.2.
This update to Apple’s digital media application lets users:
-Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
-Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
-Organize and sync PDF documents as books
Continue reading Apple updates iTunes.
Friday, May 28, 2010 at 07:09 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Apple is now taking applications to submit e-books to the iBookstore from the general public.
Macworld reports that, in the past, authors had to deal with intermediary publishers such as Smashwords and Lulu to submit material to Apple. These companies obtain ISBNs among other steps toward publishing which can be accomplished by an individual.
Prospective authors will now need an Apple ID, IRS Tax ID, an ISBN for their title, and to validate it’s ePub file to make it available in the iBookstore.
Continue reading Apple allows individuals to publish in iBookstore.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 03:48 PM | Posted by kazouz
Apple today released iTunes 9.1, bringing several improvements such as support for iPad syncing for media including eBooks.
iTunes 9.1 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
- Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go
- Organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library
- Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes
The update is available via Software Update and on the iTunes download site.
The iBookstore will launch around the same time as the iPad release in the United States this Saturday
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 09:36 AM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
The music industry has unequivocally shifted in recent years from physical retail outlets to digital stores such as iTunes.
CD sellers have witnessed a sharp decline in revenue as customers increasingly opt for a single-song purchases (if they pay for music at all) as opposed to buying full albums.
Universal Music Group announced today that it will attempt to revive the languishing market for music hardware in the U.S. by offering CDs for between $6 and $10.
Continue reading Universal to sell CDs for under $10.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 02:39 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
A High Court has ruled that British music company EMI has violated the contract they signed with Pink Floyd in the late sixties.
Selling Pink Floyd’s material as individual songs on platforms such as iTunes goes against a clause in the contract obligating the company to “preserve the artistic integrity of the albums”.
The BBC reports that EMI was ordered to pay £40,000 in costs as part of the ruling.
Continue reading Pink Floyd to be pulled from iTunes?
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 02:59 PM | Posted by LOOPRumors Staff
Apple was apparently muscled into promoting the purchase of entire albums through the iTunes Store by members of the Recording Industry Association of America.
As part of the agreement which lifted digital rights management from iTunes in April 2009 and subsequently introduced a varied price structure for songs, Apple was obligated to support the iTunes LP format.
Leaders in the recording industry who’ve seen their businesses take a huge hit due to Apple’s pay-for-the-songs-you-want model hope to reinvigorate the market for complete albums with this move.
Continue reading Sources say Apple was coerced into iTunes LP.
Monday, March 01, 2010 at 03:48 PM | Posted by kazouz
Ringtone seller Thumbplay has launched a new subscription music service offering customers unlimited streaming for $10/month.
Users can also purchase songs at the same $0.69 to $1.29 price points as Apple’s iTunes store. The site offers a catalog of 8 million songs, as it obtained licensing deals with all big four labels.
The more noteworthy news, however, is that this company today announced that former Apple executive Pablo Calamera was joining the company as Chief Technology Officer. Calamera was most recently Director of Technology for MobileMe, a position he had held from 2006.
Continue reading Apple MobileMe chief joins Thumbplay.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 05:32 PM | Posted by kazouz
Apple’s iTunes Store today reached 10 billion music downloads since launching in 2003.
The customer who purchased the 10 billionth song will be awarded a $10,000 iTunes Store gift card under the company’s “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” promotion.
The milestone is displayed on Apple’s site as well as the iTunes home page.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 09:58 PM | Posted by kazouz
All Things D reports that CBS CEO Les Moonves said that some of the television network’s shows will be priced at $0.99 per episode.
“There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents,” Moonves said today, adding, however, that details have not been worked out.
A report from last week noted that Apple would begin selling US television shows for $1 upon the iPad’s release to determine whether a cost reduction for iTunes video content will spur sales.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 09:39 PM | Posted by kazouz
Apple today announced that it has added a number of countries from Africa and Eastern Europe to the App Store.
You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. Log in to iTunes Connect to view and update the countries where your applications are available.
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