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1. Sony takes on Apple's iTunes

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Confirms plans to launch online app and music store Sony has confirmed plans to launch an online store that will sell music, movies, books and applications. 
The virtual marketplace will also allow users ...

2. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   ... width, 111.0mm (4.37 inches) height. Thickness - 10.85mm (0.43 inches). Weight - 92.5 grams (3.26 ounces). Note: Supports Palm Touchstone technology. See Also Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync  ...

3. Apple update fixes critical Snow Leopard bugs

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Introducing 

Mac OS X 10.6.2 Apple has released a long-awaited update for its Snow Leopard (SL) operating system. According to Club Cupertino, Mac OS X 10.6.2 includes general operating system fixes ...

4. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   OS X on a netbook Hackintosh Apple has reportedly restored support for Intel's Atom processor in the latest Snow Leopard build. "Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535," confirmed ...

5. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   Apple is acting just like the snotty monopolist it has become in electronic music distribution and combined that lousy attitude with the presumptive arrogance of a smartphone monopolist. Among its few ...

6. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   Apple has released an updated version of its iTunes software. Predictably, iTunes 9.0.2 blocks the Palm Pre's ability to sync media files with the popular application.Apple has released an updated ...

7. Apple upgrades TV software with tighter iTunes integration

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   Apple has released a major update for its TV software. TV 3.0 - which features a redesigned GUI - allows users to easily access iTunes Extras, iTunes LP, Genius mixes and Internet radio. Apple has ...

8. Disney launches Click2Life iPhone app

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... Disney music from Apple's iTunes store. For example, a user could photograph a movie poster to receive related video content or wallpaper images for a cellphone screen. In the  future, the company ...

9. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   Apple is reportedly developing an in-house radio application for the iPhone and iPod touch. According to 9to5mac, the nascent app will be capable of functioning "in the background" and is likely to offer ...

10. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, shrugged off competition from Apple's iPhone  and RIM's BlackBerry today, maintaining that his firm still held 40 percent of the smartphone market. Oli-Pekka ...

11. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    Woolworths, the largest supermarket chain in Australia, adopted a new logo in 2008 and on-the-ball Apple lawyers have just noticed it looks a bit like the Cupertino gadget maker’s. Woolworths, the largest ...

12. Best Camera is actually just okay

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    Review: The Best Camera app available at Apple's iTunes AppStore uses the iPhone's camera and can be used to add rudimentary special effects to a photograph. It works well enough for its limited ambitions, ...

13. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Analysis: Now that Apple’s flagship phone is to be sold by Vodafone and Orange as well as O2, what benefits will UK users see? Ernest Doku of price comparison site Omio.com peers into his crystal ball... ...

14. Palm updates WebOS

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... from Wi-Fi or wide area network connections through Amazon, but sadly will not be able to synchronise their Pre handset with Apple's iTunes due to - cough - ‘unforeseen technical difficulties'.  ...

15. Will the real rights holder please stand up?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    Eminem's music publisher, Eight Mile Style, is suing Apple, saying the use of 93 songs on iTunes was never authorized. Eminem's music publisher, Eight Mile Style, is suing Apple, saying the use of 93 ...

16. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    Opinion This week was the big Apple iPod refresh and the interest was almost as focused on what Apple didn’t announce as it was on what they did.   I think the overarching news was that despite ...

17. Steve Jobs rocks San Francisco with iTunes 9

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs has introduced a veritable smorgasbord of technological goodies, including an upgraded iPod Nano, iTunes 9 and OS 3.1. According to Jobs, the latest version of iTunes features an ...

18. Confusion reigns as Apple bans Commodore emulator again

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    Apple has banned a Commodore 64 emulator just days after approving the iPhone application. Club Cupertino yanked the retro emulator after users managed to access a banned BASIC interface. San Francisco, ...

19. Apple approves Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    Apple has finally approved Manomio's Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. However, the retro company was forced to drop BASIC support after Club Cupertino rejected the application for violating the ...

20. Realnetworks proposes iTunes alternative

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... music application made available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The company has submitted the app to Apple. If approved, the free application would offer users unlimited music streaming over Wifi, 3G ...

21. Full Beatles catalog may be coming to iTunes

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 21 August 2009

    ... the next couple of weeks. The band was known to have had discussions with Apple over a deal, after its Apple Corps label finally settled the trademark dispute with its namesake. But talks were said to ...

22. Updated: Colorado photographer sues Apple over 'iconic' photo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    A widely published Colorado photographer has filed a copyright infringement suit against Apple. Louis Psihoyos - who created the ubiquitous "500 monitors" (aka "1000 TVs") image in 2005 - alleges that ...

23. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... before. That’s because our protagonists, Google and Apple, are both very much at the top of their game. And these relative superpowers have just taken off their proverbial gloves and declared war. Where’s ...

24. Apple working on super secret social networking app?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... you can rely on most of these rumors about as much as on a fortune cookie. But we have to admit that today’s tidbit is rather interesting: Apple is reportedly working on an application that would tie ...

25. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... himself, but obviously was the iPhone Apple never wanted. It entirely failed to appeal to customers. It was a lesson that repackaging the then successful RAZR phone and painting it Apple-white simply did ...

26. Puritanical Apple censors 'objectionable' English dictionary

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    Apple has censored an English dictionary due to its supposedly "objectionable content." According to Ninjawords developer Phil Crosby, Club Cupertino rejected an initial build of the educational iPhone ...

27. Apple patches iPhone security flaw

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    ... at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. San Francisco (CA) - Apple  has patched a critical iPhone security flaw with a 300MB firmware update. The vulnerability - identified by Charlie Miller and ...

28. Apple’s Cocktail: How to make you buy what you don’t want

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... have to rely on the best sales guy in the industry, Apple, to sell consumers what they really do not want any more – entire music albums with music you may never listen to. Will Apple convince you? ...

29. AVG removes false iTunes "quarantine"

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    AVG has confirmed that a recent database update placed several iTunes DLL files in quarantine after falsely identifying them as a Trojan virus. However, a revised update removed the quarantine just five ...

30. Apple mixes cocktail to boost music album sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... watching with concern, but it seems that Apple is now taking a new approach to make the digital album much more attractive with a pack of interactive features code-named Cocktail. New York (NY) – ...

31. Palm switches iTunes sync back on

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    ... the latest version of webOS 1.1 bringing in a number of changes and improvements and - cough - accidentally re-enabling iTunes synching for owners of the Pre smartphone. Apple issued a software update ...

32. Apple backs down after legal threats

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    Apple has backed down from its legal bullying of the Web site Bluwiki, a site hosting content for iTunes database exploration. Cupertino (CA) - Apple has backed down from its legal bullying of the Web ...

33. Apple bans Zombie school shooting app

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    Apple has reportedly banned a school shooting app that managed to sneak past snoozing censors into the company's iTune's store. "Zombie School" - developed by Retarded Arts - cheerfully encourages players ...

34. RIAA spokesperson eulogizes "dead" DRM

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... the RIAA, which has spent years loudly trumpeting the controversial standard. The spokesperson was reportedly reacting to harsh criticism of the copyright method, as well as Apple's recent decision to ...

35. Apple: No more iTunes for Palm’s Pre

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    Apple today released an update for its iTunes software, which shuts out devices that pretend to be an iPod or iPhone. Of course, the new iTunes mainly targets Palm’s Pre smartphone, which has been able ...

36. Apple's iPhone has yet to meet its Microsoft

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Opinion - Apple's App Store celebrates a year of existence and 1.5 billion downloads from 65,000 applications. It is astonishing, and all of it despite a less than developer friendly approach by the company, ...

37. BlackBerry to get music download service

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    Research in Motion (RIM) is aiming to fix one of the most glaring omissions in its fight to take on Apple and Nokia, by adding a wireless music download service. London, UK - Research in Motion (RIM) ...

38. Bluetooth support added to iSamurai's deadly arsenal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 10 July 2009

    Toy Kite has enabled Bluetooth support for its popular sword fighting game. iSamurai - which uses Apple's recently released 3.0 software - is reportedly the first "Wii-like" title for the iPhone. San ...

39. Iphone porn app frenzy causes server crash

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... in advanced stages of undress. It should be noted that Apple recently approved the sale of a controversial Nine Inch Nails app, after initially rejecting it due to "objectionable content" linked to "The ...

40. Dead discs: Blu-ray’s failure to launch signals end of spinning media

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... to services like Apple’s iTunes and App Store are driving a growing realization that you can be pretty productive – and entertained – without a spinning drive.Blu-ray will doubtlessly continue to grow ...

41. Apple offers $30 sweetener for iPhone glitch

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 21 June 2009

    Following serious problems in activating upgraded iPhones last week - which are still continuing according to reports over the weekend - Apple is offering a cash apology to compensate frustrated ...

42. iPhone 3G S launches with another round of delays

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    Buying a new iPhone on launch day often requires patience. With the first two generations, we learned that you will have to consider waiting in line and expect activation delays. Apple and AT&T appeared ...

43. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... black fabric cable and sleek in-line microphone. V-MODA's VIBE II with Microphone is available at the Apple Store and online at Apple.com in Nero (black) and Chrome Rouge for $119. Check out www.v-moda.com. ...

44. Apple servers wilt under iPhone upgrade strain

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    Apple's product activation system fell in a heap yesterday as users stampeded for the iTunes store to upgrade their iPhones. Cupertino, (CA) - Apple's product activation system fell in a heap yesterday ...

45. iTunes scammers arrested

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

    ... questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. The investigation began last December, when various credit card companies warned Apple that music was being bought from iTunes ...

46. Apple confirms iPhone 3.0 specs

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

      Apple has confirmed that iPhone 3.0 will offer over 100 new features, including MMS support for photos, contacts, audio files and map locations. In addition, the new OS is slated to provide iPhone ...

47. Apple: An apology

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    TG Daily would like to apologise unreservedly for any perceived suggestion that Apple, its users and iPhone owners in particular are in any way socially inadequate. TG Daily would like to apologise ...

48. Apple Store carries ad for DVD Jon's software

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    doubleTwist, the software company co-founded by Jon Lech Johansen, AKA DVD Jon, has poked famously-humorless gadget maker Apple in the eye by posting an ad for its open source player enabling iTunes ...

49. iPhone boozers keep tabs on livers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    Proof, if it were needed, that iPhone users are the kind of people you really don't want to go out with of an evening comes in the shape of an applet that keeps tabs on alcohol consumption. Bristol, ...

50. The Palm Pre: The best smartphone yet. Period.

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    Analyst Opinion - I've been playing with the Palm Pre for the better part of a day and you really get the sense that if a product could be designed that said "screw you Apple" this is how you would ...