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• Oh, about those iPhone and iPod touch backups ... Yeah, that really is a feature

  I've been noticing that every time I connect my iPhone or iPod touch to the PC, it does a very time-consuming backup before any syncing occurs. You can actually stop this backup by clicking the little "x" at the top of the application window... Posted Jul 16 2008, 08:07 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Mobile, Cloud computing

• 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

• HBO heads to iTunes

  Can we finally put the "no variable pricing on iTunes" baloney to the side. It's never really been true and it's pretty clear that Apple will actually bend over backwards for content providers if the company feels it's important... Posted May 13 2008, 10:32 AM by pthurrott with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content

• What they're not telling you about Apple's 'same day as DVD' deal

  I first wrote about this last week in WinInfo Short Takes, but an article by David Carr in today's New York Times once again blurs the lines of reality when it comes to Apple's recent deal with movie companies. In this deal, Apple gets the right... Posted May 05 2008, 04:05 PM by pthurrott with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release

  Apple PR : Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from... Posted May 01 2008, 02:25 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump

  Saul Hansell at The New York Times is turning into one of my must-read bloggers. Which is to say, he might very well be the first of my must-read bloggers as I don't actually have any yet. That said, this post is open to an interesting debate: Apple... Posted Apr 25 2008, 10:19 AM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mac, iTunes, iPod, Vista, Commentary

• 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

• Subtitles and alternate language tracks in iTunes movies: A lie?

  Jump ahead to 19:25 in the MacWorld 2008 keynote video and you can see and hear Apple CEO Steve Jobs discuss a new feature in iPhone/iPod touch 1.3.1. "When I'm watching films now, I've got two buttons here ( Figure )," he says. "One... Posted Jan 23 2008, 04:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content

• Apple officially adds x64 support in iTunes 7.6

  I'm in France for my wife's birthday for a few days and won't be blogging regularly, but I know a lot of people were looking forward to this , so what the heck: iTunes 7.6 or later is supported with any 64-bit edition of Windows Vista. If... Posted Jan 18 2008, 02:03 AM by pthurrott with | with 195 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod

• Apple lowers price of DRM-free songs

  Associated Press : Apple Inc. is lowering the prices of songs it sells online without copy-protection to 99 cents from $1.29, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. The reduction, which started appearing on songs Tuesday, puts Apple closer in line with rival... Posted Oct 16 2007, 04:12 PM by pthurrott with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod

• Liberating content from an iPod

  Jerry Pournelle, who I happen to believe is, in fact, the tech world's original blogger, is fond of saying that he makes mistakes so his readers don't have to. I aspire to this position, but the reality is, I make mistakes because I'm an idiot... Posted Oct 16 2007, 09:50 AM by pthurrott with | with 364 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Digital media

• My x64 nightmare begins (Updated)

  I've been planning for a while now to do something around the time of Vista's one-year anniversary in early November, but since I've gotten a number of emails lately about this topic, I thought I'd mention the biggest part of it here:... Posted Oct 10 2007, 08:28 PM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Windows Live, Internet Explorer, x64

• 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