News Stories Tagged ‘iTunes’

More Than One Million Download From Mac App Store In First Day

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In its first day, the Mac App Store, developed by Apple Inc, as a digital platform for Mac OS X applications reported to receive over 1 million apps downloaded from it. The Mac App Store features over a thousand apps that are both free and fee-based. The revolutionary store is an experience directly for the [...]

Stolen ITunes Accounts Are Sold On Chinese Auction Site

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Recently a store in China has begun selling stolen Apple accounts. The accounts are still active and are attached to active credit cards. They’re claiming that it allows the customer up to $200 on the iTunes store for less than $30. Roughly 50,000 accounts are being sold at taobao.com, prices ranging from 1 to 200 [...]

Google Launches Digital Newsstand

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Apple and Google are already competitors on several fronts – such as the e-reader front – and now the war has moved to media distribution as the two computer-age giants battle to gain dominance on the table magazine and newspaper distribution industry. Google is currently publicizing their newest initiative, Google Newsstand. The store offers e-media [...]

Apple TV Reaches 1 Million Milestone

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On Tuesday, December 21, Apple shared the good news that it was predicting more than 1 million units of the Apple TV by the end of the week. The sales figures are for the 3 month period since the product’s launch. The Apple TV is a new product by Apple that focuses on streaming TV. [...]

Apple Terminates Wikileaks App

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On Monday Apple removed a WikiLeaks application that had been available on the iTunes App Store for three days. The application, available from December 17, allowed customers to read WikiLeaks material and get updates from the rogue site’s Twitter feed. The app was developed by a Russian called Igor Barinov. He submitted the app to [...]

Google Latitude Now Available At iTunes

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Latitude is Google’s free location-based social networking service, which has become available on Apple’s iTunes-based App Store on Monday. In the beginning, Google submitted the Latitude for approval in the App Store. However, Google, the internet search giant, eventually abandoned its drive for placement on the iPhone app and developed a web-based version in its [...]

First iPad Only Magazine Launched By Virgin

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The UK entrepreneur Richard Branson has branched into a variety of ventures in his long and successful career. He is the owner of the Virgin Group Ltd., which includes an airline, mobile phone network, and music label – to name but a few of his ventures. Now Branson has taken on another area – magazine [...]

Angry Birds A Runaway Success On Android

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The success story of 2010 is Rovio, the game designer that has gone from little league to major league in under a year. The application that has caused such a stir is called Angry Birds. It is a game application that can be downloaded onto iPhone and Android. The game consists of hurling balls in [...]

iOS 4.2 Update Is Major Milestone For Apple

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Apple have released their most significant update since the iOS 4 launch almost 5 months ago. This new update finally unites all current Apple devices under a single operating system. This means that now the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch all carry the same features. The iPad has been in serious need of an upgrade and [...]

Apple And Beatles United After Almost A Decade

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iTunes officially announced that the Beatles will finally be coming to iTunes, much to the relief of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who said that he was tired of being asked when the Beatles would be on iTunes. Apple’s online music store that revolutionized the music industry became a household name overnight 7 years ago. But [...]