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When Steve Jobs and Apple put George Harrison on the Apple.com homepage
In the wake of Steve Jobs’ resignation, there have been an overwhelming number of stories detailing fascinating encounters with Apple’s former CEO. One in particular that stood out to us comes from Mike Evangelist who worked at Apple from 2000-2002 as the director of product marketing for applications. Evangelist recounts a story from 2001 where [...]
Continue reading...Bob Seger enters the digital age; Finally puts up music on iTunes
Monday, September 12, 2011
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iTunes is the most popular retailer of music on the planet, and so you would think any artist worth his/her salt would want to make sure that their catalogue of music is available for purchase there. But musicians are a funny bunch and some of them don’t take too kindly to Apple’s piecemeal way of [...]
Continue reading...U2 frontman Bono defends Steve Jobs: Calls him ‘poetic’ and labels his charitable efforts ‘invaluable’
Friday, September 2, 2011
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Though he famously only receives a salary of $1/yr, Steve Jobs is beyond wealthy. And while his tech counterpart Bill Gates has made quite a name for himself as a philanthropist, Steve Jobs’ philanthropic activity, if any, remains unknown. Consequently, Jobs has been taken to task for not following in the footsteps of Gates despite [...]
Continue reading...Ceramic iPhone horn provides volume boost sans wires and batteries
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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What you’re looking at here isn’t a modern day incarnation of the conch from Lord of the Flies, but rather a thoughtfully designed and clever iPhone speaker that doesn’t require cords, batteries, or really anything at all. Called the MegaPhone, the device is a ceramic horn handmade in Italy and was developed by en&is. The [...]
Continue reading...Stream Red Hot Chili Pepper’s upcoming album “I’m With You” for free on iTunes
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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If you check out iTunes today, you’ll be able to stream the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ upcoming album for free. Their latest album, titled I’m With You, is the bands first new record since they released Stadium Arcadium in 2006 and marks the longest gap between records in the band’s history. I’m With You will [...]
Continue reading...Forget coffee, Starbucks now serving free iPhone apps
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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First free wi-fi and now free apps. I’m not a coffee drinker but hell if Starbucks isn’t giving me a reason to stop in. The nationwide coffeehouse chain announced yesterday a new promotion whereby users can download iPHone applications for free. “Just like for music”, Josh Lowensohn writes for CNET, users can find free cards [...]
Continue reading...Apple expands 90-second song previews on iTunes
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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8 months ago, Apple increased the length of song previews on iTunes from an arguably misleading 30-seconds to a satisfactory 90 seconds. While music previews are great, a 30-second clip isn’t always an adequate representation of a song. I myself have been cajoled, in a sense, into buying songs on iTunes that weren’t nearly as [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 records amazing guitar string vibration [Video]
Friday, July 15, 2011
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An eye popping video from YouTube user justkylevids who put an iPhone inside of his guitar and recorded the string vibrations. He writes: I just happened upon this trick when testing what it was like filming from inside my guitar. Note this effect is due to the rolling shutter, which is non-representative of how strings [...]
Continue reading...Survey finds strong interest in iTunes Match amongst iPhone users
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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Yeah yeah, Apple’s new iCloud service doesn’t support streaming, but it’s all about significant, yet incremental, updates right? Besides, it’s not as if iCloud is completely forgettable. On the contrary, what Apple introduced at WWDC a few weeks ago is pretty darn compelling. We can only hope, of course, that the company has learned from [...]
Continue reading...Pandora IPO: $3 billion value at $16 a share
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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As expected, Tim Westergren and co. this week filed an IPO with the assistance of Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan and managed to raise approximately $235 million at $16 a share and 14.7 million shares of issued stock. The stock subsequently opened up today at $20/share before rising to $23/share, meaning that the streaming music [...]
Continue reading...Google’s playable Les Paul Google Logo is amazing
Friday, June 10, 2011
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Above is the most ingenious and clever logos to ever appear on the Google homepage. This past Thursday, Google’s logo transformed into a series of guitar strings in honor of the 96th birthday of Les Paul, the famed American guitar player and inventor of the solid body electric guitar. It’s no stretch at all to say [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s “iTunes in the Cloud” won’t arrive in the UK until 2012
Thursday, June 9, 2011
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Apple’s recently announced iCloud music service will let users “store” copies of their purchased music in the cloud and access it from any iOS device or Mac, DRM free. As for music that wasn’t purchased via iTunes, Apple will provide users cloud access to those songs for $24.99 a year. There’s no doubt that Apple’s [...]
Continue reading...Apple paid record labels up to $50 million each for iCloud streaming
Friday, June 3, 2011
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News keeps trickling in about Apple’s upcoming iCloud music service, with the latest report coming via the New York Post which relays that Apple paid the four music labels upwards of $150 million in order to get them on board with its planned streaming service. Earlier this week, Apple finally got Universal to sign on [...]
Continue reading...Apple to shore up licensing deals with all 4 major record labels ahead of iCloud announcement
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Apple earlier today issued a press release announcing that CEO Steve Jobs will deliver this year’s WWDC keynote where he will not only unveil OS X Lion and iOS 5, but will also showcase Apple’s upcoming cloud-based initiative dubbed iCloud. There have been a bevy of rumors as of late circling around Apple’s efforts to [...]
Continue reading...Apple inching closer to inking licensing deals for clould-based music
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Apple is inching closer and closer to securing a licensing deal with the four major record labels that would enable Apple to announce its rumored cloud music service in two weeks when WWDC kicks off on June 6. The latest is that Apple has already secured deals with EMI Music, Warner Music, [...]
Continue reading...Amazon overwhelmed by immense demand after touting $0.99 Lady Gaga album
Monday, May 23, 2011
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Earlier today we reported that Amazon was selling Lady Gaga’s latest CD Born This Way for only $0.99. Again, it’s an incredible deal even if you have a slightly more than passing interest in her music. Alas, the Gaga fans have risen from the dead and have flooded Amazon’s servers in the process. Due to [...]
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
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