05.20.08 - 01:44pm
With the iTrip FM Transmitter, you can play your very own selection of your favorite iPod music at any time of the day or night. You can now avoid bad reception on your car’s radio, by playing your own tunes on your car stereo speakers by transmitting your personal iPod music directly through the FM frequency on iTrip FM Transmitter with LCD.
The iTrip currently comes in two colors, black and white. It also features a side switch, which controls the broadcast frequency. The LX or DX modes gives you optimal levels of reception that can cut that annoying background noise. It also features a clear LCD screen that makes adjusting the digital tuner easier in dimly lit places.
This FM transmitter is compatible with iPod (click wheel), iPod Touch, iPod nano, iPod mini, iPod photo, 2nd generation iPod, 3rd generation iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod video. It retails for about $50 from Griffin Technology online store. iTrip doesn’t come with batteries required as it draws power from your own personal iPod.
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02.26.08 - 03:19pm
In spite of increasing competition from all sides iTunes has overtaken Best Buy and Target to become the second best selling music store in the U.S. for 2007. Only Wal-Mart remains standing against iTunes complete dominion.
iTunes now boasts over 6 million songs and its success is due to the continuing preference of consumers from CD’s to digital downloading. Over 1 million consumers did not buy a single CD in 2007 and teenagers jumped from 38 percent of non-buyers to 48 percent from 2006 to 2007. Just as the CD world is shrinking online downloading is jumping, rising almost 50 percent last year.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if we see the same things continuing into 2008 because what our research is showing is that teens are continuing to check out on the CD,” said NPD analyst Russ Crupnick. NPD was the market research company that measured the unit volume to figure who was number none.
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01.29.08 - 05:21pm
Fresh off the victory of signing all four major music labels allowing their music to be sold DRM free online, Amazon has announced they will be going global with Amazon MP3.
“We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S.,” Bill Carr, Amazon’s vice president of digital music, said in a statement. “We are excited to tell those customers today that Amazon MP3 is going international this year.”
No details were released on when the site will begin launching in other countries, but the news brings Amazon MP3 one step closer to outright competition in market share with Apple iTunes. Amazon’s songs are priced for less than Apple’s with most of their songs going for $.89 cents to Apple’s $.99 cents. Also all of Amazons 3.3 million songs are DRM free. iTunes has 6 million songs but only those from EMI are DRM free.
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01.29.08 - 10:54am
Qtrax is or was, a new advertising based free music download service that on Sunday announced that they had contracts with all the major music labels and 30 million songs available for free download. They also said they had a way to make the songs compatible with the iPod even without a FairPlay license. “We’ve had a technical breakthrough which enables us to put songs on an iPod without any interference from FairPlay,” said Allan Klepfisz, Qtrax’s president and chief executive. He further said “Apple has nothing to do with it,” something that was sure to rile up Steve Jobs to take action to prevent the downloads.
Today, however brings different news and it would seem Qtrax has much more to worry about than Apple fighting their “technical breakthrough”. Today they are fighting the record companies denying their songs and denying deals as well as a possible SEC fraud violation.
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01.17.08 - 03:46pm
Movie rentals are now available from iTunes following an announcement from Steve Jobs at MacWorld on Monday.
The videos can be rented for $2.99 to $3.99 with a $1 upgrade if you want to purchase the video in HD format. They are not however, compatible with the 5G video iPod or the Touch unless you pay for the $20 upgrade.
Why are they not compatible with the 5G? Nobody really knows and Apple isn’t saying. Many believe Apple simply didn’t want to take the time to create a software upgrade for the old iPods, especially when it gives users a reason to purchase a new model. Some believe there could also be hardware limitations in the older versions.
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01.16.08 - 11:35am
Four years ago iTunes was just a fledgling set to rise to unparalleled heights. At the time the Super Bowl was a huge booster for iTunes which combined with Pepsi launched a commercial set to Greenbay’s version of the song “I Fought the Law” encouraging buyers to buy legally online from iTunes rather than illegally downloading tunes from various sources.
Over 1,000,000 songs from iTunes were given away free in the Pepsi promotion and iTunes has then grown expeditiously year after year, becoming the extreme dominant in the download market and helping to propel iPods to explicit dominion.
Today however, a new era is emerging and rather than Apple being the underdog to Microsoft, with an almost cult like following, Apple is now the one on top and as the new “King of the Hill” is the one everyone wants to overcome.
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01.11.08 - 03:03pm
Amazon has added Sony BMG to their already large repertoire of DRM free music as BMG joins Universal, Warner and EMI, selling their songs DRM free from the Amazon website. This puts Amazon’s DRM free catalog at an impressive 3.1 million songs.
The addition of BMG’s music on Amazon puts a larger dent in the Apple/iTunes dominace over the market as Apple still has yet to sell any of its music DRM free except that from EMI. All the other music on iTunes can only be played on an iPod and have limited download use due to the Fairplay restrictions on the music.
“We are constantly exploring new ways of making our music available to consumers in the physical space, over the Internet and through mobile phones, and this initiative is the newest element of our ongoing campaign to bring our music to fans wherever they happen to be,” said Thomas Hesse, president of global digital business and U.S. sales for Sony BMG, in a statement.
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01.09.08 - 01:59pm
After numerous allegation against Apple, fines and upcoming lawsuits Apple has chosen to reduce the price of music downloads in the U.K. bringing an end to the European Commissions anti-trust investigation against Apple.
The U.K. was one of the few left out of standardized pricing that Apple had already set in Europe as a result of complaints from people traveling from country to country and getting different pricing wherever they went. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain currently have unified iTunes pricing. The U.K. however still had a .10 cent higher price per song, due to their use of the pound rather then the euro.
“This is an important step towards a pan-European marketplace for music,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope every major record label will take a pan-European view of pricing.”
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12.31.07 - 02:51pm
The RIAA (Record Recording industry of America) is fast becoming more hated than the IRS by anyone who has ever copied a CD or made the travesty of errors and passed a copy to a friend. With over 20,000 lawsuits against individuals, especially young college students, for passing on a digital copied songs the news that the RIAA was adding personal CD recordings, ripped to a computer, strictly for the use of the individual who bought the CD, as cause for a lawsuit was quickly believed and passed on from the Washington Post to blogs everywhere. The accusation however was false.
The new had come out that the RIAA was threatening to prosecute an Arizona man who had the gall to put his CD collection of over 2000 songs onto his computer for his own personal MP3 use. While the RIAA does say it is illegal for an individual to legally transfer a CD to the computer even if they don’t share it with anyone else, according to Engadget, they are not prosecuting the Arizona resident for that but rather for illegally downloading the songs from sites on the net to his computer.
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12.18.07 - 11:53am
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most popular video games in the world selling over 45 million copies, since its 1991 introduction. A Japanese game, the Hedgehog called Rocket Sonic is the main character who performs hair-raising loop-de-loops and dizzy dives as he tries to prevent Dr. Eggmans from achieving world domination.
The ever so popular game has been tweaked so Rocket Sonic can perform all his daring escapades on the famous iPod. “We thought Sonic on the iPod was a great fit, and fortunately Apple felt the same way,” says Simon Jeffery, president and COO of Sega of America.
Rocket Sonic is not alone in becoming an iPod performer. Peggle is also available for play. Peggle, named by MSNBC in August 2007, as one of the “Top 5 most addictive computer games of all time”, features a colorful 2D background filled with different colored “pegs”. The objective is to complete 55 stages by removing all the orange pegs by bouncing the balls off other pegs and obstacles before one runs out of balls.
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