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• Starbucks Dumping CDs, iTunes Gift Cards

  I've discussed the horror show that is Starbucks before, and it seems like the company is continuing its slow retreat back to a pure-play café experience. I think I'm OK with that: Starbucks, which has been scaling back its once-grand ambitions... Posted Jun 25 2008, 02:41 PM by pthurrott with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iPod, Digital media, Mobile

• Apple sells over 5 billion songs via iTunes Store

  From Apple PR : Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:46 PM by pthurrott with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• Apple is STILL lying about closed captioning in Ratatouille

  Last month, I pointed out Apple's surreal use of the movie "Ratatouille" as an example of Closed Captioning support in iTunes during the teve Jobs keynote. It's surreal because Ratatouille, wasn't--and still isn't--available... Posted Feb 13 2008, 08:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the... Posted Jan 15 2008, 12:41 PM by pthurrott with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iPod, Digital media, Cloud computing, Content, Apple TV

• Some thoughts on Zune 2.0

  So I wrote up a pretty thorough update on the new Zune devices last night but I'd like to chime in with some off-the-cuff thoughts this morning that are based solely on a single Microsoft briefing and some press packet photographs. I like what they're... Posted Oct 03 2007, 08:56 AM by pthurrott with | with 41 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Media Center

• Starbucks to Give Away Free ITunes Songs

  Hey, it worked for Pepsi. I think. AP reports : Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets... Posted Sep 24 2007, 09:34 AM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media