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Whitney Album Price Nearly Doubles on iTunes

Matt Cantor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:48:09 CST

On Saturday, a Whitney Houston greatest-hits album cost about $8 in the UK iTunes store; but shortly after the singer was found dead, it had jumped to a little more than $12.50. The changed sparked a customer uproar. "It is just a case of iTunes cashing in on the...

Fake iTunes Offer Hides Malware

Rob Quinn — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:14:55 CST

An iTunes gift voucher scam is doing the rounds just in time for Black Friday. Users receive an email saying they have been awarded $50 of iTunes credit which they can access by using a security code in an attached file, the BBC reports. The file actually contains malware which...

Steve Jobs: A Legacy Like No Other

Rob Quinn — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:32:35 CDT

Steve Jobs wasn't the Thomas Edison or Henry Ford of his time, but some future American business visionary may be known as the Steve Jobs of his time, writes Michael Hiltzik. Jobs—a "master of bare-knuckled business strategies from the old school"—wasn't known as an inventor the way Edison...

Newest Netflix Competitor: Walmart

Mark Russell — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:20:05 CDT

Netflix has a new competitor, and it's a behemoth: Walmart. The world's biggest retailer added Vudu, a movie streaming service it bought 18 months ago, to its site yesterday. Walmart now offers 20,000 titles to rent for $1 to $5.99, or to buy for $4.99 and up;...

Apple Will Unveil Cloud Music Storage

John Johnson — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:24:00 CDT

Looks like Apple will beat Google to the clouds when it comes to music. Insiders tell Reuters that the company is about to launch its version of an online storage service, similar to what Amazon rolled out last month : "Apple's plans will allow iTunes customers to store their songs on...

Paul Allen Re-Sues Apple, Google, Facebook

Kevin Spak — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:41:02 CST

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his mammoth patent lawsuit targeting a host of major web companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Aol, and Yahoo. Allen’s original lawsuit, filed in August, was dismissed because it was too vague, failing to name specific products or services. The refiling, which you...

Facebook, iTunes Ruining Web ... Says Web's Creator

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:46:04 CST

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has a message for us: Social networking sites, app developers, and other entities, if left unchecked, will ruin his creation—which now belongs to all of us. "The web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it...

Beatles Sell 2M iTunes Songs in Week

John Johnson — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:41 CST

The Beatles had an impressive debut week on iTunes . They sold 2 million individual songs worldwide (the top seller being Here Comes the Sun ) and 450,000 albums (with Abbey Road on top) after the catalog went up for sale, reports Billboard . That amounts to more than $8 million,...

Beatles, iTunes Come Together

Kevin Spak — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:08:54 CST

After decades of legal battles over the “Apple” brand name, the Beatles and Steve Jobs have officially let it be and come together on iTunes. It’s not the big announcement many tech prognosticators were expecting , but Apple is hyping it to the nines, devoting its entire homepage to it. A...