Apple iTunes flaw 'allowed government spying for 3 years'
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| An unpatched security flaw in Apple’s iTunes software allowed intelligence agencies and police to hack into users’ computers for more than three years, it’s claimed. A British company called Gamma International marketed hacking software to governments that exploited the vulnerability via a bogus update to iTunes, Apple's media player, which is installed on more than 250 million machines worldwide. The hacking software, FinFisher, is used to spy on intelligence targets’ computers. It is known to be used by British agencies and earlier this year records were discovered in abandoned offices of that showed it had been offered to Egypt’s feared... |
The Who's Townshend slams 'vampire' Apple
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Pete Townshend, the legendary frontman behind British rock group The Who, attacked Apple's online iTunes service for bleeding artists "like a digital vampire". Townshend, speaking in Manchester in northwest England, called on the online giant to do more to help the artists from whom it was making so much money. "Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west Internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire... for its enormous commission?" he asked. Record labels and music... |
‘Obama Clock’ climbs iPhone reference app chart
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| An “Obama Clock” app is jockeying for position with National Geographic’s World Atlas atop the iTunes app store’s reference best-seller list, partly because conservatives are eager to monitor President Barack Obama’s skidding approval numbers and shrinking calendar, says the app’s designer. Liberals don’t like the app because it shows Obama’s numbers trending down, said Jeremy Ross, even though his app just publishes publicly available data. The app can also be used to display the same stats on future GOP presidents. Ross, a California aerospace engineer, cut his sleep time down to 5 hours per day to develop the app, which... |
[Vanity] Mac (OS X) help request
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| A little tech request from fellow Mac users. I bought a bunch of blu-ray disks that each came with a digital download. All but one of them worked fine, but one of them errored out with an "err = -36" condition, which appears to be a disk read/write failure. Okay, fine, so just retry the download, right? Nope -- every time I try to re-do the download, it wants to resume where it left off, and after getting the spinning beachball o' doom for a minute or so, it fails again with the same error. Nothing I've tried seems to... |
Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted? To get ourselves in the mood for this show, we asked CNET fan (and Academy Award winner) Richard Dreyfuss if he'd help us out by doing a dramatic read of the Apple EULA. He said yes. So, without further ado, we present to you, Dramatic readings from the iTunes EULA by Richard Dreyfuss here.
Is Anybody Having Trouble Accessing Itunes Store?
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| When I open Itunes Store, it comes on for a minute and then disappears and gives me a blank screen. I'd appreciate any input from someone who may know how to fix the problem. Thank you. |
iTunes salvation: Roman Catholic Church approves Confession app
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Are you a sinner? Don't worry, there's an app for that. The Roman Catholic Church has approved a recent iTunes addition called Confession, a $1.99 app that bills itself as "the perfect aid for every penitent." As you can see above, it lets you pick a commandment and tick off all your sins, keeping a running tally to bring into the confessional with you -- a sort of anti-tasklist, if you will. Can't find your particular misstep? No problem! You're able to add your own, custom dastardly deeds, filling in those gaps the app's authors didn't think anyone would fill.... |
Amazon Can't Dent iTunes (Albums @ Amazon for $3.99)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99. |
iTunes 10.1.1 update causes upgrade woes
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| iTunes 10.1.1 update causes upgrade woes by Mat Bettinson iTunes 10.1.1 update causes upgrade woes Reports of software crashes on start Some users of Apple's iTunes music software have found that the application crashes on start up after installing the 10.1.1 update. The update that was released on Wednesday was designed to address a number of bugs including some which caused the application to unexpectedly quit. However readers of AppleInsider have reported that iTunes is now crashing immediately when the program is started. A thread on Apple's support forums discusses the issue with several users reporting that their fix was... |
Underdogs Amazon and Target take aim at iTunes and Walmart (Battle of music retailers)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| NEW YORK (Billboard) – As music retailers suffer ever shrinking sales, some of the most aggressive moves to boost business are being made by the perpetual runners-up in their respective sectors. The past year has seen heightened competitive positioning between Apple's iTunes store and Amazon for digital sales and Walmart and Target for CD sales. In both instances the latter merchant is bringing the fight to their larger competitor. Amazon batters iTunes daily with pricing promotions like the Daily Deal, while Target recently used huge marketing spending to challenge Walmart's dominance in country music. AMAZON VS. ITUNES The Amazon MP3... |
Indies begin slow progress to iTunes Ping network
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Independent artists are finally making their long, slow progress onto Apple’s social network for music, Ping. Ping, which launched after months of development without support from Facebook and with limited involvement of the labels, was originally castigated for offering a major label bias. This is now slowly changing, as independent aggregators including CD Baby and TuneCore step up their attempts to help their acts create Ping profiles. |
Need help with my iPod files
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Some time back, just before my lung surgery, I got a nice laptop that holds tons more data than my old desktop. So I decided to phase out the desk top and keep the niftier laptop. The main problem is my iPod, or more precisely, its files. I need to somehow tranfer the files from the iPod to the laptop, but it doesn't seem to work that way? I have installed iTunes on my laptop, but rather than transfer the contents of my iPod to the laptop, it wants to wipe it clean. I have my little iPod (Nano, 16g)... |
The unofficial guide to installing iTunes 10 without bloatware
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| One of the most popular posts I wrote in 2008 was a set of step-by-step instructions to help you do what Apple doesn’t want you to do with iTunes for Windows (see Slimming down the bloated iTunes installer). Now that iTunes 10 has been released, it’s apparent that nothing has changed in Cupertino. Apple still gives its customers a monolithic iTunes setup program with absolutely no options to pick and choose based on your specific needs. |
Beatles and iTunes deal still at impasse: Yoko Ono
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. The Fab Four have long resisted the allure of digital downloads, instead selling millions of old-fashioned compact discs last year after remastering the catalog. Apple Corps, the group's holding company has been unable to agree on terms with EMI Group, which licenses the Beatles' recordings. And then there's the unrelated Apple Inc, owner of iTunes, the world's largest music retailer. Apple and Apple have had a difficult history over rights to the name. But that trademark dispute... |
Digital Divide: Apple Solidifies Its Lead Among U.S. Music Accounts, As Mobile Merchants Fade
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| DIGITAL DIVIDE Ed Christman May 22, 2010 Apple Solidifies Its Lead Among U.S. Music Accounts, As Mobile Merchants Fade Apple's iTunes store, which emerged in 2008 as the top U.S. music account for the first time, widened its lead last year over former market leader Walmart. According to my analysis of 2009 sales and market share, the top 20 U.S. music accounts accounted for 85% of the total account base. That's down from 88% in 2008 and runs counter to an almost decade-long consolidation trend under which the top 20 accounts continued to capture an ever larger share of the... |
Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep.
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Today at Google I/O, Vic Gundotra introduced Froyo, aka Android 2.2. But he also went a bit beyond Froyo. Coming soon, is a way to download an app through the Android Market over the web — and have it automatically download on your Android devices too. But that’s not all. Gundotra also showed off a new section of the Market — Music. Yes, an iTunes competitor on the web from Google. Details are sparse at the moment, but here’s how this basically works. You go to the Market on the web, find a song you like, click the download button,... |
Apple Kills Lala Music Service
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Four months after buying Lala Media's popular online music service for a reported $80 million, Apple is pulling the plug on the 5-year-old site. Lala notified its users in an e-mail Friday morning of the shutdown. Apple Inc. spokesman Jason Roth confirmed the plans, but he declined to say whether the Cupertino, Calif., company would resurrect the service under Apple's iTunes brand. Lala lets users listen to any song in its catalog in its entirety once for free. After that, listeners can sample the song again for 30 seconds or buy a digital download of the song for 89 cents.... |
EDITORIAL: TSA to download your iTunes? (Government moves to expand Constitution-free zones)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Federal security workers are now free to snoop through more than just your undergarments and luggage at the airport. Thanks to a recent series of federal court decisions, the digital belongings of international fliers are now open for inspection. This includes reading the saved e-mails on your laptop, scanning the address book on your iPhone or BlackBerry and closely scrutinizing your digital vacation snapshots. Unlike the more common confiscations of dangerous Evian bottles and fingernail clippers, these searches are not being done in the name of safety. The digital seizures instead are part of a disturbing trend of federal agencies... |
Apple's iTunes Cloud is real, coming in 2010
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Another prediction that Apple's acquisition of streaming music service Lala will result in a cloud-based iTunes service was offered Tuesday, with a digital music executive suggesting purchased content will be available from any browser or Internet-connected device. In a guest column on TechCrunch, Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business, former CEO of MP3. com and current CEO of MP3tunes, said he believes Apple will not offer a subscription music service in the future. Instead, he said, the purchase of Lala will allow Apple to create an iTunes service that will make content accessible from anywhere. |
Rush Podcast
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Does anyone know if there is a podcast of Rush's show other than paying for it on Rush 24/7? |
Apple beat Google to LaLa deal after failed bid for AdMob [iPhone and iTunes]
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Apple beat Google to LaLa deal after failed bid for AdMob - report By Brian Garner Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 08:00 PM EST Google was in serous discussions with music streaming service Lala before it was sold to Apple earlier this month. Google and Apple have been battling to purchase some of the same companies in an attempt to gain leverage in the highly competitive tech sector. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google had been in serious talks with online music streaming company La La Media Inc. before Apple closed the $85 million deal earlier this month.... |
Apple can be copied, but can it be beat?
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Apple can be copied, but can it be beat? By Jim Dalrymple DECEMBER 8, 2009, 8:15 AM PT Apple has some of the best selling computers in the market, it’s the No. 1 music distributor, it sells movies, TV shows, iPods and it’s changing the mobile space with the iPhone and App Store. It’s also one of the most copied companies in the world, but can anyone beat them? It’s almost funny to watch companies line up to put out products that mimic Apple’s look and functionality. Apple puts out a new iPod and all of a sudden there are... |
Lala purchase may hint at the coming of the rumored iTunes Replay service
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Lala purchase may hint at the coming of the rumored iTunes Replay service Posted by Dennis Sellers Dec 8, 2009 at 7:00am As you’ve doubtless heard by now Apple has officially bought Lala (purportedly for US$80 million [Star Traveler comment: LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million], less what half of what investors valued the company at in 2008), which, last September, unveiled “the first and only free fully licensed service to instantly provide anywhere web access to an existing music library such as iTunes.” Which begs the question: what is Apple going to do with... |
Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal [Extends iTunes]
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal December 07, 2009 - Digital and Mobile By Glenn Peoples, Nashville With its acquisition of online music start-up Lala, Apple appears to have bet on a digital music strategy that places ownership – no matter how ephemeral - over subscription. And more than competing services, Lala best fits into Apple's desire for well-designed applications that complement other Apple products. The iPod wouldn't be the same without iTunes, and the iPhone should be better with Lala. Apple's interest in Lala is not surprising. Compared to other services, Lala has an iTunes-like... |
Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:27:52 AM
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| Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09? November 17th, 2009 Posted in Technology The number of times Apple and Palm went back and forth trading clever coding tactics was beginning to wear thin. At first I found myself saying “yay for the little guy”. But after Apple made it very clear from the get go that they weren’t feeling the cross platform love, Palm decided to kick it up a notch. And so began the cat and mouse game that went on for weeks. The latest Palm OS update, 1.3.1, that was released recently failed... |
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