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Music store experiments with floating prices
News A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing 10 cents, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand. Like every other music service, MusicRebellion has fixed...
[January 9, 2004, 7:35]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
News French online music store Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple Computer, claiming that the company's refusal to license the copy-protection technology used in its iPod is harming competition.
[August 6, 2004, 9:05]
UK music store loves Linux
News MVC is looking at installing Linux within these in-store devices emphasising the growing stature of Linux as an embedded operating system as well as a server solution. We believe it to be the fastest, most cost-effective solution, especially for...
[July 5, 2000, 7:10]
iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed
News A trio of independent programmers has released new software that allows people to tap into Apple's iTunes music store and purchase songs free of DRM features. Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD...
[March 21, 2005, 9:10]
iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed
Talkback Just a passing thought - isn't it interesting that the term "copy-protection" is used in this context, subtly suggesting to the consumer that this is in their best interests, "protection" conjuring warm, safe associations?
[March 21, 2005, 11:18]
iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed
Talkback Paul, you are mistakenly assuming that the term 'copy protection' was coined from the user's point of view. In a similar vein, we now have 'trusted computing', to make up for the fact that certain coroporations don't trust their users any more.
[March 21, 2005, 22:01]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback Now AFAIK an IPod will only play music protected by Apples DRM, which locks out all other music retailers as they cannot produce music files in the correct format for an IPod, this leaves Apples ITunes store as being the only place you can buy...
[August 9, 2004, 14:56]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback Funny, you can't listen to Free Radio Virgin on a Mac because Virgin' technology doesn't support Macs but its okay for them to complain about iPod beinf anit-competitive.
[August 6, 2004, 16:34]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback We have a company that makes two of a couple dozen music players in the market and they are called anti-competitive. This borders on hilarious! Yet, we have another company whose Office suite dominates the desktop computer market with proprietary...
[August 7, 2004, 13:25]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback to virgin: it's called 'capitalism', quit whining and stop being an asshole because apple won't share what they made themselves.why would they open their books to you if it would potentially hurt their profits.thats what companies _do_, they make...
[August 6, 2004, 17:03]
Music-Store Chain Boosts Employee Productivity With Desktop Upgrade
White Papers Virgin Megastore has 11 retail music stores across the United States, and the 1,400 employees in those stores exchange information daily with staff in the company's Los Angeles headquarters. The company decided to make information creation and...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Indigo Books & Music Boosts Store Uptime and Improves Customer Experience With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network Solution
White Papers Indigo is a Canadian company committed to providing a service-driven, stress-free approach to satisfying the booklover. Frequent network outages at small format stores impacted customer service and ability to process sales.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
'Extreme geek' resells iTunes song
News A customer of Apple's iTunes Music Store said he has successfully resold a song he purchased through the service, ending a weeklong exercise he hoped would highlight the legal and technical nuances of emerging digital music services.
[September 11, 2003, 15:40]
iTunes for Windows goes live
News Apple Computer unveiled the Windows version of its closely watched iTunes music-jukebox software and song store on Thursday, in a rare foray away from the Macintosh platform. Like the iTunes Music Store service it unveiled for the Macintosh...
[October 17, 2003, 9:15]
Song of the Week Widget
Downloads 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...
[June 10, 2006, 8:00]
Microsoft prepares counter-attack to iTunes
News While Apple Computer grabs publicity for its new 99-cent music download store, Microsoft is quietly preparing for a counterattack by improving its own technology for supporting subscription music services.
[May 27, 2003, 7:47]
iTunes DRM hole fixed
News Apple has closed a security hole that allowed an underground program to tap into its iTunes Music Store and purchase songs stripped of copy restriction features. The security hole in the iTunes Music Store which was recently exploited has been...
[March 22, 2005, 9:05]
ITunes sales hit 25 million
News Apple Computer has nearly doubled sales of digital music through its iTunes music store since launching a Windows-compatible version of its iTunes software in October, the company said. Apple said Monday that customers have downloaded a total of 25...
[December 16, 2003, 9:35]
Mobiles rise to the iPod challenge
News When Gilles Babinet looks at a mobile phone, he sees a music store, an iPod and even a nascent platform for a tiny-screened MTV. Music for mobile phones is relatively expensive and scarce -- just 3,000 songs are available through Vodafone's music...
[November 12, 2004, 14:50]
iTunes Feeds
Downloads 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.
[March 2, 2007, 6:00]
