Apple? Unlimited free music?

March 20, 2008

Maybe. But the rumor is that users would expect to pay a high price when they buy iPods and iPhones in order to get the free pass to the iTunes library.

So how high are we talking about? How will other companies compete?

Abilene Christian: iPhones, iPods to students

February 26, 2008

Incoming freshman in the fall will receive new tools to help them through their college years. Other university reps attending the ACU information officer’s presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino include those from UCLA, Oxford, Princeton, MIT, Yale and Harvard.

Talk about a nifty welcoming packet.

Info via Briefing.com

What Steve B. is up to these days

October 10, 2007

Is he the Fred Astaire of our generation or what.

iPod yes, iTunes no

September 17, 2006

In a new report, researchers find that iPod users seldom buy from iTunes. Where does all that music come from then?

According to the study, most of it hails from the owner’s CD collection or from file-sharing. File-sharing?

More on this later.

decking out the iPod in jewels

September 7, 2006

And many other ways in which to pamper your music player.

Hillary Clinton’s favorite iPod tunes

July 16, 2006

Mostly hits from the 60s and 70s with the Stones, the Beatles, Aretha and the Eagles.

Blinkit: you light up my iPod

July 14, 2006

If your iPod has a dock connector, Blinkit turns it into a blinking flashlight.

If only this were available when I used to take night walks. But turning an iPod into a safety device is a nifty idea.

If the post title starts that awful song looping in your head, please put on something else. And fast.

iPod: adding album art made simpler

June 15, 2006

Shortly after getting an iPod for graduation, a son spent the better part of a Saturday adding album art. Now Specere has come out with Art Collector 1.0, an application that simplifies this process.

iPod Shuffle: Plastic City Edition

Plastic City is teaming up with Apple to offer an 512 MB iPod Shuffle preloaded with 35 tracks from the label.

Nice idea, although I wouldn’t personally buy it. Now, if they had a regular iPod with the entire Plastic City back catalogue, or maybe stuff from the entire UCMG New York or UCMG Germany label conglomerates, I’d be all over that.

iPod labor: is Apple the new Nike?

June 14, 2006

In a story from the Beeb, Apple is checking into reports that workers at their iPod factories are toiling under sweatshop conditions.