Tag: Itunes
Opinion: Please, please me and put The Beatles on iTunes!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody, help, you know I need someone… who can blooming well tell me if we are ever going to be able to buy Beatles songs on the interweb.
I’m not one of those nuts who says they’re the greatest band in the world, but I can understand why it’s so important to have their tunes in digital form. After all, there’s millions of people out there who’d listen to the Liverpool Fab Four eight days a week if they could…
Michael Jackson's company squashes rumours regarding the Beatles' availability on iTunes
Michael Jackson, aka, the world’s biggest spoil-sport, has apparently put his foot down over The Beatles’ music being made available on iTunes in the future, with a spokeswoman for Sony/AVT Music Publishing (the company that co-owns the publishing rights with Jackson) claiming yesterday’s rumours are “untrue”, reinforced by an Apple representative stating “this is not news nor is it a scoop”.
Claims regarding the payment Apple would shell out for the privilege of selling the British band’s tracks is in the region of $600 million, with speculators…
Beatles back catalogue finally available for download? Probably…
The Beatles back catalogue should finally be available for (legal) download very soon – which could mean a week’s chart (and more) featuring only the Fab Four.
Will the iPhone SDK let non-iTunes music stores onto Apple's handset?
As I write this, rumours are criss-crossing the internetweb about Apple’s iPhone SDK slipping from its planned February release date (for the record, many of them lead back to this Business Week story).
Apple's iTunes is now the second biggest music retailer in America
Not sure what’s the most shocking part about this news – the fact that iTunes is so big, or the fact that it isn’t already the number one.
Second only to Wal-Mart (the American ASDA) when it came to shifting “product” during 2007, iTunes has also now overtaken Best Buy (the American Dixons) to shuffle up a place in the sales league. iTunes is not just a little thing hardcore Apple fans use any more.
Also, during 2007, the statisticians at NPD said legal…
Block your ears, Madonna's Filth and Wisdom film going straight to internet, possibly iTunes
We normally leave fluffy stories involving blond popstars up to our friends at Shiny Shiny, but in that instance, I just can’t resist poking fun at Madonna, with the news her film is going…straight to the internet!
She claims that her directorial debut Filth and Wisdom is bypassing the cinema because she is “a beginner so I think I should start off in an understated way. Just because I’m established in one field doesn’t mean that’s how I should approach anything else I do”. As much as she insists she doesn’t want her reputation as a pop goddess to give her an advantage over other film makers, the film got slated after it was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last week.
“I’ve been speaking to iTunes…
BBC TV comes to iTunes Store, for a price
It seems all the BBC is doing right now is pushing out its content into every Web 2.0 and online orifice going. The latest development is that it expects the good old British public (who already fund the BBC) to pay for content via the iTunes Store.
For just £1.89 per episode, users can download a range of popular Beeb fare including Torchwood, Life on Mars, Little Britain, Spooks, Robin Hood, and other BBC classics.
There’s now quite a bewildering choice of methods by which you can get your fix of Auntie, and depending on how organised you are, how much you care about quality, and the state of your bank balance / credit limit.
OPINION: Apple returning to the Bad Days? Why an Apple games console would be a disaster
The latest HOT APPLE RUMOUR doing the rounds (ie, getting endlessly reposted on every blog under the sun), is that the fashionable computer giant might be planning to enter the gaming world to compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Patents would appear to show that show Apple is planning to up its gaming offering, perhaps even launching a separate standalone home games machine or handheld rather than just shovelling a few Tetris clones onto iPhone…
Nike and Apple offer tunes to get you running with 30-minute jogging workout
Fancy getting fit in the new year? Well, you’ve probably left it a bit late to be honest – although a trip to the shop for the iPod/Nike kit and a download of this 30-minute jogging workout could get you moving in a matter of hours.
Amazon struggling to meet Kindle demand
Product shortages are cool again, thanks to Nintendo’s inability to get enough DS and Wii units into the shops over Christmas. Amazon has leapt onto the bandwagon with its Kindle e-book reader, claiming yesterday that it just can’t make enough of ’em to match consumer demand.
