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The effort was spearheaded by EMI CEO Roger Faxon, who came to his new position in June of this year. He reportedly hammered out a deal (detailed below) with The Beatles and its management company, Apple Corps, and then set out to win the best deal from one of the major players in digital downloads.…

Android-based phones, according to Woz, sport more features that the iPhone and there are more choices for consumers, too. Eventually Android phone quality and user satisfaction will be on par with iOS, he predicts. 

“We believe that you can bring the mobile to the Web but you don’t need to go through some kind of control point of an SDK, and that’s the core part of our message,” Mr. Balsillie said, according to eWeek. “You don’t need an app for the Web [or to use a special defined set…

On the Internet, the immediate reaction to this momentous announcement was: *yawn* — followed by an avalanche of snarky and derisive comments. The gist of most of the comments was that Apple’s announcement was too little, too late.  Typical remarks (with the snarkiness removed) ranged from “This is fine…but too much hype, hardly worthy of taking…

Most iPhone users have been exposed to shopping apps by now. Using barcodes, they help you find the best prices for items. TheFind takes that experience up a notch and then adds another layer on top of that. And it is free. TheFind app iconThe app, which is listed in the Lifestyle section of the…

Apple had planned on letting Ping users sift through their Facebook friends to find new followers and highlighted the feature when it first showed off Ping earlier this year. When Ping officially rolled out, however, Facebook integration was conspicuously missing.Facebook’s Mark ZuckerbergAccording to TechCrunch, Mr. Zuckerberg said the reason Ping and Facebook aren’t linked together…

Dr. Sugar served as Northrop Grumman’s CEO and Chairman from 2003 until he retired in 2010. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics along with the Royal Aeronautical Society.He also serves as a senior adviser to the Ares Management investment firm,…

The Beatles are performing less well on in sales of single songs, with seven of the Top 100 singles, from #39 to #85. Both charts have been swiftly changing throughout the day, and the list we compiled below had to be renumbered three times just whilst we were putting it together due to all 17…

Mr. Devine will be required to give the court access to his various safe deposit boxes, and the prosecution is currently reviewing the content on computers they seized from him, too.Prosecutors want Paul Shin Devine’s cashMr. Devine was charged with several counts of fraud for selling information to parts suppliers so they could negotiate better…

The Drobo S also includes USB 2.0 support, along with two FireWire 800 ports and an eSATA port. So far, Apple isn’t supporting USB 3.0 on the Mac, but there are ExpressCard and PCI Express-based third-party adapters available.Users looking to add the Drobo S to their backup routine will pay US$799 for the unit without…

Most of us have heard sad stories of computers lost or stolen. I remember the fellow working at an outside cafe who had his stolen while he was trying to stop someone from stealing his bicycle. Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed.  Cable style laptop computer lockThe cable style lock for…

What will this be? There’s probably a group of folks in Cupertino who know, but speculation has already begun that it will be an announcement for The Beatles catalogue, a subscription music service, and a long expected move to the cloud with your iTunes library. Or all three. Or maybe something else. What’s curious, however,…

Mark Papermaster was a longtime executive at IBM where he worked on both processor designs and Big Blue’s blade servers. He was recruited by Apple to head up the company’s mobile device engineering efforts, where he was in charge of, among other things, the iPhone’s innovative antenna design. Apple never blamed those problems on Mr.…

The Packaging Before I even started testing these earphones I was impressed with one particular thing — the packaging. Now this good impression was probably somewhat influenced by the fact that earlier in the day I had to open one of those blister pack packages that requires a chainsaw to get to the product, but…

Fusion is a next generation processing platform that combines a CPU and GPU on one die. In particular, Fusion supports OpenCL, a 3D rendering technology Apple initially developed (it was turned over to the Khronos Group and is now an open standard). Fusion’s graphics performance is reportedly impressive, and its small footprint and low power…

Mr. Arumugam had been working on his Economy for iPad app when he discovered a bug preventing the onscreen keyboard from disappearing was due to Apple’s code and not his own. By using a command that’s built into the software development kit (SDK), but not officially available to developers outside of Apple’s offices, he worked…

HD movie purchases are priced at ¥2000 and ¥2500 for new releases, and SD movies cost ¥1500 or ¥2000 for new releases. Rentals are priced starting at ¥300.Shoppers can pick up a new Apple TV 2 in Japan for ¥8800.

There have been a relatively few reports of such problems for some time, and Gdgt reported in October that Apple was investigating the issue, and the reality today is that while other third-party iPhone 4 cases (snap-in and bumpers, for instance) are available at Apple Stores, slide-in cases are not. Slide-in cases for earlier iPhone…

Wi-Gear’s Web site isn’t offering up any details, although it does now state “Wi-Gear has ceased operations and is no longer in business. We will be unable to respond to any inquiries.”Wi-Gear: We’re closedApparently Apple plans to build its own stereo Bluetooth wireless headsets for Macs and iOS devices and decided to pick up a…

Apple has been boasting that large percentages of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 200 have either deployed or are working on deploying the iPhone and iPad, but the banking industry has been one of Research In Motion’s strongholds, and helped pushed BlackBerry into early smartphone prominence. Together, Citi and BOA have more than a half…

iAd: Now in your country, too.The change means iPhone and iPod touch users running iOS 4 are finally seeing iAd-based advertisements in the apps they use in countries around the world.The expansion comes as users and developers prepare for the release of iOS 4.2, which will bring iAd support to the iPad. The update will…

Apple leaves the enterprise againApple noted “Since its introduction in the fall of 2009, Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server hasbecome Apple’s most popular server system.”The company will continue to sell its rack-mount server product through January 31, 2011, and will continue to honor warranties and support contracts.Apple published a Transition Guide in PDF format…

The spot was produced in the same vein as Apple’s “I’m a Mac” TV commercials, and presents the MyTouch 4G as a beautiful young woman. The iPhone 4G is presented as a youngish hipster-with-an-actual-but-not-too-formal-job, with AT&T as the proverbial monkey on his back in the form of a stodgy, balding, and overweight business suit. The…

Apple told music distributors “We are pleased to let you know that we are preparing to increase the length of music previews from 30 seconds to 90 seconds on the iTunes Store in the United States. We believe that giving potential customers more time to listen to your music will lead to more purchases.”The iTunes…