Apple shuts down iPodDownload
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IPOD MAKER Apple has come down hard on a man who made an add-in that allowed file-sharing on iPods. iPodDownload&#39;s creator has stopped distributing the iPodDownload software after a visit from Apple lawyers who applied pressure.
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Digital flatline looks ominous for music labels The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forrester Research.â¦
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Pitching battery life over storage capacity Apple may be planning to drop hard drives from it iPod line-up, if claims made by a financial analyst are to be believed. The move would see the company canning its next iPod revision in favour of a Flash-based model, Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora wrote this week.â¦
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The intrepid hacker community quickly finds a workaround for the way the latest iPods accept loaded files. Frustrated users who don't like iTunes find many of the third-party music-management apps that have worked for years don't work. With no Linux version of iTunes, users have had to choose -- ditch the iPod or switch operating systems -- until now.
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Steve Jobs writes, âWith the stunning global success of Appleâs iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to âopenâ the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Letâs examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future.â
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Apple's Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry, with his iPod and iTunes digital music store. Struggling record labels swallowed hard and accepted his 99-cents-per-song pricing because they had little choice.
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The latest version of Hymn strips DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store, enabling playback on non-iPod gadgets.  In Listening Post.
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Appleâs popular iTunes music service, for use with Appleâs insanely popular iPod music player, will not be today as planned. Company officials are stressing it will be available âvery soonâ though
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Dell Inc. has quietly pulled the plug on its DJ Ditty music players, less than a year after the world's largest computer maker launched the device to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod Shuffle.
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Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the iPod have reached a settlement that calls for the site to shut down.
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With Apple releasing threats of 'bricked' iPhones and Amazon debuting its new music download service, Don Reisinger can't help but wonder if Apple is heading down a slippery slope.
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Virgin is calling it quits in the digital music business. The company has stopped selling tracks and accepting new customers as of Friday, and will shut down for good on October 19.
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Apple Computer Inc. has updated the software for some of its iPod music players so that songs bought from RealNetworks Inc. won&#39;t play.
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'Take that, Steveo!' Less than a month after its very public breakup with Apple iTunes, NBC Universal has announced its own rights-restricting video download service.â¦
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A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government.
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Last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs called for an end to anti-piracy software on digital music as a way to let customers listen to their downloads on any device. The record labels responded with a mixture of scorn and indifference to the idea, which would disrupt their security measures.
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No longer only a war of words, Apple Computer Inc. has quietly started to block the technology that RealNetworks Inc. created to get around the iPod music player&#39;s copy-protection armor.