Corante: Apple Matters
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NBC President Jeff Zucker says more NBC shows will soon be available via iTunes.The NBC deal expands Apple's TV offering to 300 episodes of 16 different series and Zucker said that number will expand quickly as NBC Uni fills the...
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The new NBC lineup on iTunes includes some interesting price flexibility. Although most of the full-length episodes sell for $1.99 each -- just like the Disney/ABC shows -- there are some exceptions. The award for highest price goes to Conan...
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Episodes from eleven TV shows owned by NBC, Sci-Fi and USA Network are now available for $1.99 on iTunes Music Store.NBC Universal and Apple today announced an unprecedented lineup of new primetime, cable, late-night and classic TV shows, including primetime...
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Paul Murphy at ZDNet predicts that Intel delays and high costs will force Apple to delay the launch of Intel-based Macs, or make serious compromises to meet price targets....
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Freedom to Tinker takes another look at the Sony rootkit software (XCP) and finds something interesting inside.For weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz with tales of intrigue about Sony's XCP copy protection system. Among the strangest revelations was that XCP...
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Some iPod sales numbers from Apple's annual 10-k:Apple said that net sales of iPods rose $3.2 billion, or 248 percent, during 2005 compared to 2004. The company said it sold 22.5 million iPods in fiscal 2005, an increase of 409...
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After accepting the plea and a previously arranged deal with prosecutors on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton ordered Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., to pay $300-million (U.S.) -- the second-largest fine in...
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In my other life as a tech writer, I occasionally write video game reviews. The pre-Christmas flood of product began to arrive a few weeks ago, and I've been playing console games -- Xbox, PS2 and GameCube -- ever since....
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Download Squad has some good tips to improve iTunes for Windows. The post mentions several useful add-on programs, including iTunesKeys and idleTunes.idleTunes has a host of useful features: - find and insert album artwork into tracks - copy iTunes playlists...
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Tony Smith at the Register suggests that Microsoft is pushing for a universal dock standard to help competitors take on the iPod. Tony's reasoning: if rival MP3 players can use the iPod dock it loses a competitive advantage. If Apple...
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It seems like a new, smaller iPod comes along every few minutes. Maybe that's true. Video: Steve Jobs sketch on Saturday Night Live...
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Tech buzz of the day goes to Microsoft, not just for the launch of the Xbox 360, but for Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) -- a proposal to extend RSS to make it easier to share data more easily. Call it...
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Apple says it will prepay $1.25 billion USD over three months to secure a reliable supply of flash memory from five suppliers: Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba."We want to be able to produce as many of our wildly...
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Yes, this is another post about iTunes pricing. This time, trigger was this post by Joel Spolsky, who notes that prices send a signal to potential buyers. The very act of establishing "premium" songs (or "discount" songs) communicates the assumed...
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Although Mac systems are not affected by the Windows-specific Sony rootkit threat, there may be Mac-specific DRM on some recent Sony CDs. Larry Loeb at SecurityITHub provides the details:Imogen Heap's new CD, "Speak for Yourself," on RCA Victor (a BMG...
