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iTunes 9.1 Released: iPad Syncing and iBooks Support Included
Let the iPad hype and excitement begin: Apple’s preparation for the launch of the iPad has kicked into high gear. Today, the tech giant released version 9.1 of iTunes, its vastly popular music, app, and now book-managing software.
The Apple iPad is a bit of a misfit. Like an iPod Touch with a glandular problem, a complicated pricing scheme, and a name that will fuel weeks of late-night comedy monologues, the iPad has a rough road ahead of it.
Free download Avatar movie, burn Avatar to DVD
DVD or Blue-ray version of the 3D motion picture Avatar will not been issued till this Summer, but there are already digital Avatar movie from torrent sites like LimeWire FrostWire, for those who want to watch Avatar movie on HD TV via home DVD player or watch Avatar on iPod iPhone Zune Xbox PSP PS3 mobile phone, Check here for right answer.
As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android phone that offers an inside designed by Google and an outside designed by HTC. According to Google's Mario Queiroz, the Nexus One is a "super phone" where the Web meets the cell phone. "It's an exemplar of what mobile phones can do with Android," he said. The handset will be available first for GSM carriers like T-Mobile, but a Verizon version will follow.
The PSP Go may have been the worst-kept secret of this year's E3 show, but Sony's press conference has now supplied the official details. For the most part, there's little that wasn't already revealed or correctly assumed: the PSP Go is smaller, has a slide-up screen, no UMD drive--and no game-changing upgrades, such as a touch screen or second analog stick. But the big news is that the new PSP will be available in North America on October 1 for $249.
Full Feature of iPhone 3GS with Detailed Parameter
As what the rumor expected, the new iPhone 3Gs is coming out finally with all the stirring new features. Check here for the full feature of the new iPhones 3GS, enjoy iTunes DRM-free music video movie on it with the iPhone DRM Media Converter.
The 4th generation Zune HD with touchscreen coming this fall
Rumors around the Microsoft Zune scattered that the 4th generation Zune HD with touchscreen will be internationally available this fall. Seems a market share war between Zune and iPod touch is been brewing in Microsoft's backyard.
Apple forwards with iTunes Pass for super fans
With iTunes Pass, you can purchase a pass from iTunes at a set price and have iTunes Plus songs, music videos, and more delivered to your iTunes Store account over a designated timeframe. Once you purchase iTunes Pass, you will be notified by email when there is new content available for download.
Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack on iTunes
Slumdog Millionaire also won the Best Original Soundtrack of the 66th Golden Global Award, and the composer A.R. Rahman has been nominated for three Oscars for the film, for best original score and two best original songs. And by now, the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire is available on iTunes Store, which cost $9.99 as iTunes Plus.
Nokia launches 'location aware' Ovi app store
Nokia has announced its new application store at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the smart 'Ovi store', which will offer consumers relevant, targeted media through their social connections and their physical location information.
Dell going after iTunes/iPod ecosystem with openness...FAIL
Dell is using former Apple executive Tim Bucher to lead a 120 strong crew that will try to form an alliance of Apple's enemies to usurp the king of digital music. This has no chance of succeeding.
What I think everyone, except possibly Amazon, doesn't get is that Apple is succeeding in iTunes/iPod because it makes using digital music easy, not because it is using DRM.
Music Labels Rethink iTunes, Again; Same Old Gripe of Album vs Singles
This has become the equivalent of first snowfall stories that local TV news stations do every year: this gripe against Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes has been trotted out every year for the last five years or so, and now WSJ spends tons of words to rehash it again, though with some new twists. This time, like before, the argument is that labels would like to sell the albums as a unit instead of singles, and the new part is that some of them are beginning to bypass the iTunes behemoth distribution machine.
