Update 1: Reuters says citing sources that the Beatles deal is not part of the announcement. Update 2: WSJ is also reporting that the announcement is about DRM-free songs, not…

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As someone who’s impatiently bought many pre-release singles on iTunes and then gritted my teeth as I paid full price for the album with the same song, this helps: Apple…

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This almost counts as alarming ... when AT&T COO Randall L. Stephenson held up an Apple iPhone, due to be distributed this June with Cingular AT&T as the exclusive carrier,…

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Yesterday Apple wasn’t confirming that its new wireless set-top was on the way; this morning there’s a press release and a party of the front page displacing the months-away iPhone.…

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After a delay. Apple TV hits living rooms this week heralded by a rave review from the Journal’s Walt Mossberg. The $299 wireless set-top with “carefully limited” functions worked great”…

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Apple’s iTunes DRM, which does not allow consumers to transfer iTunes Music Store purchases to non-Apple music players, has until now come in for limited European criticism, beyond the legislative…

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In the music industry, one thing hasn’t changed, and it’s that the record companies can’t get their products across to potential buyers without an intermediary. Once it was radio and…

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Our UK contributor Robert Andrews caught this at OPA Forum for the Future in London today ... Asked about Motorola’s response to Apple’s upcoming iPhone, Motorola European marketing director Simon…

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Apple’s TV solution to let people play computer video on TV sets—originally due out in February—has been delayed until mid-March, reports Reuters. No specific reason was given, a spokeperson simply…

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It’s unclear whether the music business as we now know it has a future, and that’s true for the people on the periphery of the business, not just the big…

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The New Yorker‘s famous cartoons can now be viewed as an animated, ad-supported video podcast on iTunes through RingTales, an online animation syndicator. As part of the deal with the…

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Cisco and Apple have resolved their dispute involving the iPhone trademark...the agreement will allow Apple to use the name in exchange for exploring wide-ranging “interoperability’’ between the companies’ products in…

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paidContent.org has learned that one of the biggest gaping holes in streaming of primetime shows—the lack of online replays of Fox doc hit House—will stay that way. When I asked…

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Lionsgate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) reported higher FY 3Q07 revenues of $254.5 million, an 11 percent increase from the prior year’s quarter. Net income came in at $20.5 million, a tremendous…

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Lionsgate and Apple finally have an agreement to put the studio’s films on iTunes. The arrangement starts today; more than 150 titles, including Dirty Dancing, will go up this month.…

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This may turn out to be the most interesting week in digital music since Apple opened its online store. First, Steve Jobs told the major labels to forget about Apple…

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The reviews of Steve Jobs’ DRM Manifesto are coming in from the music industry and the lines fall pretty much as you would expect. Take Edgar Bronfman Jr. during Warner…

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The costs of securing ownership rights for TV, film, music and photographs and any other media that can be digitized will rise significantly this year, as the industry will continue…

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Amazon ups the download ante, at least among the 600,000 or so folks with TiVo hooked up to their home networks—well, actually a few hundred of them in a deal…

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Or something to that effect. The WSJ is touting a breaking news item that “Steve Jobs calls on music companies to drop antipiracy software.” This would place the onus directly…

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Apple Inc., the company formerly known as Apple Computer, and the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. have settled their trademark dispute yet again. Apple Inc., which dropped the word computer from…

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We’ve written a bit here about the ongoing saga at Apple involved back-dated options and faked board meeting minutes. Now the company is reporting via its 10-Q SEC filing “informal…

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So said Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, in a video interview with FT.com (Text transcript here). The company, the first studio to sign onto iTunes when it went video, has…

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This is the first such definitive country action against Apple and its iTunes store: Norway’s powerful consumer ombudsman ruled that its iTunes was illegal because it did not allow downloaded…

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This is buzzing around today: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate around a 50 per cent gross margin, according to research firm iSuppli. Apple execs were asked about the margins…

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