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MySpace Elbows iTunes With New Music Service

Rival launches today

(Newser) - Apple’s iTunes meets its first serious challenge today with the launch of MySpace Music, CNET reports. The second-largest online social network has joined forces with Amazon and the world’s four biggest record labels to offer free streaming and paid downloads. The move also pitches media mogul and MySpace...

Microsoft Yanks Crazy Seinfeld Ads
 Microsoft 
 Yanks Crazy 
 Seinfeld Ads 
OPINION
Sep 18, 2008 9:56 AM CDT

Microsoft Yanks Crazy Seinfeld Ads

Cryptic ads left some 'scratching their heads'

(Newser) - Microsoft has axed the cryptic Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads that left some viewers "scratching their heads," Michelle Quinn writes in the Los Angeles Times. Though a Microsoft spokesman claims it was the plan all along to stop here, the blogosphere is abuzz about Microsoft's "strained...

Zune's Music Discovery System Tops iTunes
Zune's Music Discovery System Tops iTunes
PRODUCT REVIEW
Sep 17, 2008 3:38 PM CDT

Zune's Music Discovery System Tops iTunes

Apple, Microsoft take page from Pandora's book in broadening users' horizons

(Newser) - In test-driving new software from Apple and Microsoft designed to facilitate music discovery for users of their respective media players, Walter Mossberg gives the edge to Zune’s system over rival iTunes’ upgrades. “Though I didn't happen to have as much time to use Zune's software as I did...

Jobs, Execs Settle Suit on Backdated Apple Options

Tentative $14M deal will put an array of state and federal lawsuits to rest

(Newser) - Apple CEO Steve Jobs and several current and former execs have reached a tentative settlement on a shareholder lawsuit alleging they backdated stock options to boost their pay, the Wall Street Journal reports. Apple will receive $14 million in the deal, which would end a series of state and federal...

Apple Touts New iPods, but Stock Stumbles

New gizmos thin—as is Jobs, who pokes fun at alleged health crisis

(Newser) - Steve Jobs unveiled an overhauled line of Apple gadgets today—thinner iPod Nano and Touch devices—and a shiny new deal with NBC, but not before spoofing reports of his poor health, Reuters notes. Borrowing a line from Mark Twain, the Apple chief and cancer survivor flashed a message on...

Shares Dip Ahead of Apple Announcement

Seeming iPod focus may make tomorrow's event 'underwhelming'

(Newser) - Apple's shares have been off as much as 5% today ahead of a much-publicized event tomorrow at which the company is expected to drop a new iPod Nano and give an update on iPhone sales, Reuters reports. One analyst worries the news will underwhelm; another says the dip isn’t...

Geek World Rants, Raves Over Microsoft Ad

Some find Seinfeld/ Gates routine unfunny; others, 'hilarious'

(Newser) - A new Microsoft ad is sparking praise and putdowns in roughly equal measure around the Web today. Paul McDougall calls the spot "outdated and not very funny" in InformationWeek, but says it's revealing—of a tech company totally out of touch with Generation Y.  The choice of “...

Clone-Maker Files Countersuit Against Apple

Psystar alleges trust violations, tries to open market for OS X

(Newser) - Mac clone-maker Psystar countersued Apple this week and charged it with violating antitrust law, PC Magazine reports. The battle centers on a provision in Apple’s end user agreement that prohibits non-Mac hardware from running its operating system. Psystar admits to selling computers with such hardware, and says they can...

What We'd Like Steve Jobs to Do Before He Dies
What We'd Like Steve Jobs to Do Before He Dies
OPINION
Aug 29, 2008 11:35 AM CDT

What We'd Like Steve Jobs to Do Before He Dies

Leaked obit of Apple's still-living founder inspires wish list

(Newser) - No word from Steve Jobs on whether he made it through all 17 pages of his own obituary, published prematurely by Bloomberg on Wednesday, but news organizations all over have been having fun at Bloomberg's expense. Forbes went one step farther last night, posting a list of the five things...

iPhone 3G Has Already Outsold Original

It took Apple a year to move 6M of first model; second hits that mark in 7 weeks

(Newser) - It took Apple one year to sell 6 million first-generation iPhones. By next week, the company will have sold the same number of 3G iPhones—just seven weeks after they went on the market, TechCrunch reports. Complaints about battery life and connection speed haven’t tempered the iPhone’s popularity,...

Makeover Rumored for Nano
 Makeover Rumored for Nano 
ANALYSIS
Aug 25, 2008 2:37 PM CDT

Makeover Rumored for Nano

Apple insider Rose says iPod will get a new screen; iTunes set for big changes, too

(Newser) - Rumors are flying about a makeover for the iPod family in the coming weeks, with the biggest changes in store for the Nano, Ian Paul writes in PC World. The baby of the clan may soon have a much larger and tapered widescreen, according to Apple-watcher Kevin Rose, who also...

China Blocks iTunes Over Pro-Tibet Album

Compilation was offered free to Olympians

(Newser) - The Chinese government has blocked access to Apple’s iTunes music store for providing free downloads of a pro-Tibet compilation to Olympic athletes, the Telegraph reports. Users reported a blackout Monday, shortly after the Campaign for Tibet notes that 40 Olympians had downloaded the record. Only the Chinese iTunes store...

Apple Customer Sues Over iPhone 3G Glitches

Service nowhere close to what's advertised, complaint alleges

(Newser) - An Alabama woman is suing Apple after purchasing the new iPhone 3G, alleging the gizmo does not nearly live it to its hype—plagued by problems like slow email and text-messaging, excessive dropped calls, and the inability to connect to AT&T’s 3G network. Her complaints are echoed across...

Colleges Make iGadgets Part of Course Load

Schools give students iPhones, iPods as learning tools

(Newser) - Some US universities have started handing out free iPhones and Internet-enabled iPods to students, the New York Times reports. The institutions view the gadgets as tools for online research, student polling, and as-yet undeveloped educational applications, while Apple gets an in with a new generation with consumers. Professors with easily...

Microsoft's Answer to Apple Ads: Seinfeld

Comedian to front $300M campaign to counter stodgy image

(Newser) - So what's the deal with Microsoft ads? The company has enlisted Jerry Seinfeld to spearhead a new $300-million campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports, to try to shake the negative buzz about Vista, and the nerdy, feckless image projected by John Hodgeman in Apple's popular "Mac vs PC" ads....

Dropped Calls Plague New 3G iPhone
Dropped Calls Plague New
3G iPhone
Aug 16, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

Dropped Calls Plague New 3G iPhone

Customers complain of phone problems and rotten Apple response

(Newser) - Owners of 3G iPhones complain that their new phones are suffering from glitches, especially dropped calls—and that Apple seems keen to drop their calls when they report issues, ABC News reports. A company spokeswoman refused to comment when contacted about the iPhone problems, which also include slow web access...

Dell Boots Up New Ultralight Laptop

Latitude weighs 2 pounds, boasts 19-hour battery

(Newser) - Dell has unveiled a new ultra-portable Latitude laptop to go head-to-head with Apple's MacBook Air. The new entry into the most active segment of the PC market comes with a 12.1-inch screen, weighs just 2 pounds and has a 19-hour battery life with an add-on, reports MarketWatch.

Best Buy to Sell iPhone
 Best Buy to Sell iPhone
Aug 13, 2008 2:08 AM CDT

Best Buy to Sell iPhone

Apple big seller in stock next month

(Newser) - Electronics retail giant Best Buy will begin selling the iPhone in its 970 stores next month—becoming the first retailer to stock the line other than Apple stores and AT&T outlets, which often run out of the popular phone. Best Buy is the only outside retailer to have exclusive...

App Store Selling $1M a Day: Jobs
App Store Selling $1M
a Day: Jobs
Aug 11, 2008 9:01 AM CDT

App Store Selling $1M a Day: Jobs

'I've never seen anything like this,' Apple boss says

(Newser) - The iPhone’s new App Store has exceeded the company’s wildest expectations, tallying up average sales of $1 million per day, Steve Jobs said today in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Apple’s on pace to make $360 million from the store this year. “This thing's...

Apple Could Remotely Kill iPhone Apps
Apple Could Remotely Kill iPhone Apps
ANALYSIS
Aug 7, 2008 5:05 PM CDT

Apple Could Remotely Kill iPhone Apps

Phone checks in for instructions on bad seeds, blogger finds

(Newser) - Apple appears capable of remotely deactivating programs paid for and installed by iPhone users, Arnold Kim writes on MacRumors. The discovery was made when an iPhone user uncovered a hidden web address linked to a software blacklist maintained by Apple—presumably intended to screen malicious software from being used. “...

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