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Top 40 Chart 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Top 40 Chart lets you tap any entry to be taken straight to that song on the iTunes Music Store, where you can listen to a 30 second preview, and buy the track. Top 40 is based the Billboard US charts.

Tags: Apple iTunes Music Store, Mobile, TheMacBox, Digital Music, Digital Media, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-11

Android's doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the iPhone

Android's doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the iPhoneThey are certainly leveraging iTMSThe question is whether iTMS is a monopoly. I'm not saying it is or it isn't, but it's certainly something the FTC should be examining closely, and I don't know that they are.Damn Apple for...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Digital media, Digital music, job, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes Music Store, phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

6 music services compared: Who can bust the iTunes monopoly?

Over the past few months, I’ve been sampling all of the major U.S.-based competitors to the iTunes Music Store, as well as a few fascinating minor-league competitors. In this post, I’ll show you how each one stacks up against iTMS in terms of pricing and available features. After my testing...

Tags: Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Revenge of the record labels: Is it Apple's turn to knuckle-under?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had a knack for getting entire industries to knuckle under to his demands. It was just over a year ago that the four major record labels -- all of whom wanted more control over the pricing of downloaded songs from their artists --...

Tags: Security, Personal Technology, Legal, Hollywood On Demand, General, Entertainment, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Song of the Week (SotW) 1.3 (Windows)

Always forgetting to download the latest free single of the week from the iTunes music store? Song of the Week SotW is a free widget to get you to the iTunes music store's free weekly song. Just click the image on Song of the Week SotW and download the free...

Tags: Apple iTunes Music Store, Microsoft Windows, Apple iTunes, Largemouth Software, Song Of The Week, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-07-04

iTunes Feeds 1.1 (Mac)

iTunes Feeds is a widget and allows you to get the best from the iTunes Music Store : learn about current top songs and albums and just click on them to listen. be aware about new releases and featured albums. search iTunes Music Store.

Tags: Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple Macintosh, Apple iTunes, Mac-lover, iTunes Feeds, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-03-02

Apple TV is a lead zeppelin

Apple TV is a lead zeppelinEyeTV, Recording, StreamingThe only reason I will pass on the Apple TV is my lack of a nice widescreen HDTV. I currently record about 20 hours of TV a week using an EyeTV Hybrid and would like to stream this to the living room along...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes Music Store, TV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

Survey: iTunes music sales tumble in early 2006

Survey: iTunes music sales tumble in early 2006Others disagreeWhile Apple was expected to strongly deny this is the case, there are other analysts that disagree with the Forrester research:http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2006/12/do-math-itunes-sales-arent-collapsing.htmlIn addition to the Black Friars analysis, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is also disputing the numbers from Forrester's Josh Bernoff's writing.It...

Tags: Sales strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Sales force management, survey, Apple Inc., MP3, Apple iTunes Music Store, sales, iPODS, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

IE8 already, more Vista delays, big holiday gadget budgets, WinTel/AppTel to usurp living rooms, and Zillow under the tree?

IE8 already? Internet Explorer 7 is hardly out the door (in fact, Secunia has already found a second vulnerability in the newly-released browser) and Microsoft is already dropping hints about IE8, also known as IE Next, according to Mary Jo Foley.With IE 7 finally out the door, Microsoft has begun...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple iTunes Music Store

Blog posts 2006-10-26

Apple, Microsoft, and openness

Apple, Microsoft, and opennessIn the case of mail......I use Apple's "Mail" program to access all of my various e-mail accounts, including GMail. That's one thing that Google got right that Hotmail and Yahoo haven't, at least as far as my usage goes. I can configure my GMail account...

Tags: E-mail providers, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., e-mail, Yahoo! Inc., music, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes Music Store

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

Summary of today's Apple announcements (no iPod phone)

Summary of today's Apple announcements no iPod phoneMonopolyGive it a rest with the monopoly rhetoric already.One. You do not need iTMS to play music on an iPod.Two. You do not need iTMS to get music at all.Three. You do not need an iPod to play music purchased from iTMS.Four. You...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Games, Digital rights management (DRM), phone, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple iTunes, game, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Summary of today's Apple announcements (no iPod phone)

I'm sitting here in my home office in northern Massachusetts trying to find out what Steve Jobs is saying at his product roll-out taking place right now and my first choice of sites to visit was Engadget. But I'm apparently not the only one who thinks Engadget is going...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jobs, Apple iTunes Music Store

Blog posts 2006-09-12

As Zune looms, Napster UK gives away MP3 players (potential doorstops)

Ever hear of ARPU? Average revenue per unit? Thats one of the metrics that cellular phone carriers ("cellcos" for short) use to gauge their success. Its also one of the reasons that the cost of your cell phone was either partially or entirely subsidized. Or, in my case (which...

Tags: ARPU, Napster Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-12

My Apple-Expo 2006 predictions

My Apple-Expo 2006 predictionsAnnouncementTablet! Tablet! Tablet!Careful, you could get sued for writing about Apple.NTWhat about a media center product?I think Apple should sell a Media Center computer that would be somewhere between a mini and a mac pro. It would be twice as wide as a mini with Core 2...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., tablet PC, tablet, Apple iTunes Music Store, Mac tablet PC, MAC, PC

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

With Microsoft sucked into a DRM cat-n-mouse deathmatch, is Zune doomed?

While I was away on vacation, I caught George Ou's blog on how Microsoft's digital rights management DRM copy protection technology (currently, the lynch-pin to its PlaysForSure ecosystem, and undoubtedly a foundational piece to its new iPod-killing Zune initiative) had been rendered useless by developers of the FairUse4WM "utility." FairUse4M...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-09-07

MySpace to sell songs from indie bands

MySpace to sell songs from indie bandsNew Solutions to Old ProblemsSo you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? Things are looking up. It sure ain't like it used to be. It just boggles the mind that someone as influential as Roger McGuinn has zero income stream to show for...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Like WTF, Apple iTunes Music Store, MySpace

Discussion threads 2006-09-02

Coming to an iPod near you: streaming and subscriptions

Coming to an iPod near you: streaming and subscriptionsi'm waiting!i'm waiting for something new to come out... full touch screen wireless... give it to me!FehNot a big fan of internet radio stations. I like to choose my own music, isn't that the whole point of an iPod?As for renting,...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital rights management (DRM), Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple iPod, JHymn, Apple iTunes, subscription service, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-08-28

Apple to meet with Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes over alleged unfairness of FairPlay

Apple to meet with Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes over alleged unfairness of FairPlayEasy solutionJust sell the songs without DRM in Norway. Problem solved.It's going to be intereresting to see where the tipping point is--when will there be more money to be made licensing FairPlay than in selling iPods? ...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., music, Apple iTunes Music Store, DRM is CRAP

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Song of the Week Widget 1.3 (Mac)

Always forgetting to download the latest free "Single of the Week" from the iTunes Music Store? This is a free Dashboard Widget to get you to the iTunes Music Store's free weekly song. Just click the image on the widget and download the free song posted on iTunes every week!

Tags: Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple Macintosh, Song, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2006-06-10

Just what we needed: Another proprietary form of CRAP (DRM)

I feel like Oliver Twist saying "Please sir, more." Are we sadomasochists asking for another beating from our dominatrixes (Steve Jobs: Head Mistress)? Go ahead. Send me some art. I'll use it. It's bad enough that if I download a video from the video section of...

Tags: Steve Jobs, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-05-09