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HBO’s Finally Seen It: Coming To iTunes With Tiered Or Differential Pricing: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 May 2008 09:17 AM PST

HBO, which has always made it interminably difficult to find any of its shows online (that’s because they aren’t, at least legally), is close to announcing a deal with Apple…

Zune Still Exists; Adds TV Shows From Viacom, NBCU - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 May 2008 09:45 PM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), serious about this thing called digital media, has added TV shows to its Zune marketplace. It will offer about 800 TV shows, each for $1.99, for download…

Apple Day-And-Date Movies: Loss Leader For the Company; Higher Profits For Studios - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 May 2008 07:05 PM PST

As we wrote last night, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is launching its day and date movie release service..previously movies from most studios hadn’t been available on iTunes until weeks after their…

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Day And Date Movies Starting on iTunes; Warner Bros’ Will Do It For VOD and Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:40 PM PST

It was only a matter of, well, days, before day-and-date would arrive for the VOD and online release of movies, and it has: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is expected to announce…

Starbucks Cedes Management Of Hear Music Label To Partner; Will Focus On Digital; Lombard Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 24 Apr 2008 05:22 PM PST

Once again, Starbucks is changing course when it comes to entertainment. The company announced today it is pulling out of direct management of the Hear Music label and instead will…

Earnings: Apple Posts $1 Billion-Plus Profit; Beats Street On Earnings, Revenue - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:31 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) earned $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per share, for the quarter ending March 29, compared with $770 million, or $0.87 per share, in the same quarter last year.…

Apple Buys Microprocessor Chip Firm; Possible Use With iPhone and iPods - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:44 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has finally done something with its cash, although spending a tiny part of it, after much speculation of what it would do: it has bought a boutique…

Fox, Paramount Testing New-Release Downloads At iTunes - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:30 AM PST

Something unusual happened for iTunes users when Juno made its DVD debut this week: the Fox movie was also for sale as an iTunes download for $14.99 as the News…

Apple Surpasses Wal-Mart As Number One U.S. Music Seller - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 03 Apr 2008 02:24 PM PST

Less than two months after edging out Best Buy and Target for the number two spot, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has now passed Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) as the number…

Broadband Content Bits: Showtime; iTunes-Starz; Yahoo Show; Fox’s ‘Rookie’; Sony; NYT Style Mag - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 26 Mar 2008 10:47 AM PST

-- Showtime’s The Tudors to premiere across video sites: As Showtime’s historical drama series The Tudors gets ready to kick off its second season on Sunday, the CBS (NYSE: CBS)…

Sony BMG CEO Says Company Plans Subscription Music Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 25 Mar 2008 05:03 AM PST

Look at us, we’re planning one too… Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG wants to get into the subscription music game. CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, summarized by…

Apple Working On A “Radical New Business Model”: Flat-Rate iTunes: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Mar 2008 09:01 PM PST

This sounds similar to what Nokia, Omnifone and some others are working on in Europe: giving away music for free to users, and the handset/service providers pay the premium, only…

Adobe To Develop iPhone Flash/Media Player After All - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 18 Mar 2008 08:52 PM PST

So the hide-and-seek game of egos ends, at least nominally: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen said at a conference call with investors that his company is finally working on…

Digital Music Roundup: Operation MySpace; R.E.M-iLike; Beatles-iTunes - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 10 Mar 2008 06:02 PM PST

-- Operation MySpace live from Kuwait: MySpace, in cooperation with the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You program, went live from Kuwait today with Operation MySpace,…

More Noise About Expected Beatles-iTunes Deal But Precious Little Info - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 09 Mar 2008 06:59 PM PST

A rather sketchy story from The Telegraph has started another Beatles-iTunes tizzy. It’s a different law of large numbers—the larger the dollar amount you can attach to a story with…

BBC Puts iPlayer Catch-Up TV On iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 07 Mar 2008 11:27 AM PST

After much rumour, the BBC has made its iPlayer TV catch-up service available on iPhone - its first mobile implementation. The service does not use the new SDK nor an…

iPhone Live: Kleiner Perkins Commits $100 Million To iFund For iPhone Apps Development - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 06 Mar 2008 12:38 PM PST

Not a lot of of details yet but one of the announcements coming from the iPhone event now going on in Cupertino has some serious heft: John Doerr, partner at…

iPhone Live: Apple Lays Out Roadmap For Software, Enterprise; Will Add ActiveSync But No Timeline - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 06 Mar 2008 12:31 PM PST

Sitting halfway back in a packed room the size of a small movie theater, I’m in Cupertino today to hear Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) plans today for the iPhone. Only details…

iTunes’ Rental Library Falls Far Short Of 1,000 Mark; Only 400 Titles Currently Available - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 03 Mar 2008 05:23 PM PST

At Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Macworld event in mid-January, Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes movie rental downloads with the promise that the service would offer 1,000 titles by the end of February.…

Apple’s iTunes Second Biggest Music Retailer in U.S., By Volume - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Feb 2008 10:19 AM PST

Just when everyone else is cutting CD floor space at retail, Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) digital media store edged out BestBuy and Target to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind…

BBC Worldwide To Distribute Shows Through iTunes; In UK Only - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Feb 2008 08:44 PM PST

BBC’s commercial arm will start distributing shows through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes by next week, reports The Register, citing sources. The launch will happen on Tuesday, and BBC Worldwide’s digital…

‘DVD’ Jon’s DoubleTwist Gets Funding For iTunes Circumvention - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 18 Feb 2008 01:45 PM PST

SF-based DoubleTwist, the DRM-fighting startup from famed hacker “DVD” Jon Lech Johanson, has raised funding from Skype-backer Index Ventures and Norway’s NorthZone Ventures, reports FT. After an unfulfilled partnership with…

Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; MSNBC.com; Mars-Facebook; HarperCollins; Tiscali; Dennis - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 14 Feb 2008 03:42 PM PST

-- AppleTV update launches after two week delay: Apple quietly launched its free AppleTV update this week, after having postponed the software two weeks ago. Now users have wireless access…

Wal-Mart’s Digital Media Head Leaves; Joining Apple As Head of Movies/TV, International - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 01 Feb 2008 07:53 PM PST

Kevin Swint, the digital media head of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has left the company, and is joining Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) from next week, heading movies & TV, international. The move…

Amazon Buying Audible In Deal Worth $300 Million; Should Boost Kindle Content - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 31 Jan 2008 06:27 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is pushing further into downloadable media: the company is acquiring spoken-word digital audio firm Audible (NSDQ: ADBL) for $300 million or $11.50/share, a premium of more than…