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Rumour: Amazon to launch its iTunes rival by mid-September
It’s no secret that Amazon is working on a digital music store: the company announced it back in May. However, a well-sourced report in the New York Post says the new service has a tentative launch date of… this month!
Apple may launch official iPhone ringtones via iTunes on Wednesday
Even before the iPhone launched, we’ve been expecting there to be some way of purchasing and uploading ringtones to the iPhone via iTunes. Now several prominent US newspapers are reporting that Steve Jobs could use his special event on Wednesday (the star of the show rumoured to be new touchscreen, Intel-based iPods) to launch an iPhone ringtone service.
As the Crazy Frog will tell/irritatingly shout at you, there’s money to be made from ringtones, particularly as Apple may wish to cash in on the iPhone’s ability to assign individual tones to each contact.
Lego playset showing Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak from Apple, on sale today!
It’s fairly safe to say that tech geeks and Lego go hand in hand, as comfortable with one another as Trekkies and their massive dress-up boxes.
Tomi have struck gold with the ultimate in geek toys, a Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak playset. Set in the early days of 1972, the playset features two little Steve characters with a custom-made computer (Apple, naturally), a circuit board-based project and a calendar…
New OS X iPods rumoured… but is Apple planning a handheld games device?
Well-connected blog AppleInsider has a story claiming that next month will see the launch of Apple’s next-gen iPods, running an embedded version of Mac OS X.
Pour me a cold one with the Beer Server G3
The Apple G3 Server may be considered seriously outdated now that the likes of the Mac Pro have come along, but when it gets a mod like this, it’s worth a second look.
The G3 may struggle to run OS X Tiger, and it won’t run Leopard, but this model can pour you a Tiger Beer, or perhaps a Cobra, instead.
Does it work as a computer any more? Probably not, but who cares? I’ve got an old G4 Mac that I know just what to do with now.
Apple already selling refurbished iPhones
Less than two months after Apple began selling the iPhone in the US through AT&T and Apple Stores, it’s also offering refurbished iPhones on its own web site, retailing at $100 less than their original price.
Selling refurbished products isn’t a new thing for Apple. They’ve been shifting iPods, Macs, and other hardware for years in this way, usually because a customer has returned the product unwanted.
Top 10 features we want in the next iPod
The internetweb would be a boring place if it wasn’t for Apple, which fuels endless speculation about its upcoming products by… saying nothing at all about them publicly until they launch. Such is the case with the next-gen iPods.
Now the iPhone is out, it’s clear that the iPod could do with a revamp. Rumour has it that September could be the date for the unveiling (and immediate shipping) of new iPods, so I thought now was time to compile a wishlist of new features. Well, there might be time to squeeze them in. Starting with…
Is EA bottling out of Mac games?
One of the big stories of Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference back in June was that EA would bring out its major games on the Mac.
However, two months on and it seems as if Electronic Arts may have gone a little cold on the idea.
Madden NFL 08 came out on most devices, but was a no-show on the Mac.
Get an unlocked iPhone… er, in Hong Kong
Well, it’s a start. Apparently shops in Hong Kong are selling unlocked iPhones that work on local operators (the shot above shows one seemingly connected to local operator CSL). Right now, thousands of European Appleheads craving their iPhone fix are adding up the costs of a round-trip to pick one up…
