Tag Archives : ITunes

Apple TV Couple of months ago, rumors mills were buzzing with the news that Apple TV is getting a makeover which reportedly included iOS 4, Apple’s A4 chip, 1080 px playback, 16GB of storage with a US $99 price label. All of the above features except a 1080 px playback is reportedly confirmed by the same source who had earlier let the cat out of the bag. Apple also will be officially changing [...]

App Store Apple’s App Store just opened up a “Try Before You Buy” to lets users test drive a limited selection of apps before buying them. The new section could be accessed from  under Features, go to features and select Free on the App Store,  the new section serves only to highlight the free  edition of apps which  only contains the freemium, “lite” or ad-supported versions of apps [...]

iPad and iPhone Software and hacks to liberate your iPhone OS from Apple’s restrictive and monopolistic design is as old as the iPhone itself, with iPhone dev team  and other developers tirelessly working to open up your iPhone to a host of apps which Apple prohibited. Jailbreaking had got a boost last week when the U.S. government updated its regulations  legalise “jailbreaking,” though [...]

Apple Apple’s  acquisition of online streaming music company  Lala.com last year was seen as the Cupertino based company’s foray into cloud computing services, it made sense. Google  already was successful in its cloud based ventures (gmail, picassa and related services), Microsoft was focussing big time with online collaboration getting extra focus in  Office 2010 version. When Apple [...]

App Store on an iPhone Last week saw fraud occurring in the iTunes system, when  a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store’s “book” category with seemingly bogus content. There was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud. This week the scam seems to hit Travel apps, [...]

App Store Forty one  different books on the “Top Books Paid Software” listing of Apple’s online store were created by a publisher named “mycompany/Thuat Nguyen.” and for many of these titles there are  no ratings or reviews. If reports are to be believed a app developer hacked iTunes users accounts and has purchased their own apps using those accounts – making [...]

iTunes Its a season of updates from Apple inc. following  the release of Apple’s iOS 4 mobile software and Safari 5 in software category and new mac mini and iPhone 4 in hardware. Apple released iTunes 9.2  with loads of new features, most of them to enable compatibility with the pending software update coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch next week. Apple iTunes 9.2 promises faster syncing [...]

Steve Jobs at WWDC iPhone 4G is here. As expected Steve Jobs has launched the iPhone  at the opening keynote of World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California which commenced a couple of hours ago. Describing it as the ‘biggest leap since the original iPhone’ , Steve Job said he will discuss eight features of the ‘thinnest smartphone on the planet ‘ from [...]

Apple in hot water over iTunes Few days after reaching numero uno position and becoming the most valuable technology company in terms of market capitalization, Apple has joined the infamous club  of big companies –  including IBM, Intel and Microsoft – which got  investigated for antitrust allegations by United States Department of Justice(DoJ). The Department of Justice is  investigating [...]

Image via CrunchBase The Apple  iPad users in UK and other countries who have got the device from US -as its not internationally available until May 28 –  had no options for buying apps directly through the device from Apple iTunes store, and this was one of the more frustrating aspects of owning an iPad outside the US.  This  inability to access the App Store on device is now a thing [...]