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Sony Online Service iTunes rival announced

In Japan, Sony has outlined basic plans for a new online store that, if the plans pan out, will manage to rival iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and Flickr - at least for Sony customers.

Sony Online Service, as it's been dubbed at this early stage, will offer digital...

Blackadder now available on iTunes

Following the release of Fawlty Towers, BBC Worldwide has seen fit to launch another British classic on iTunes.

To mark 20 years since the series last appeared on our screens, the entire series of Blackadder is available to download from the iTunes Store for...

iTunes still most popular music service by far

A survey of 2000 internet users in the UK from GfK NOP has found that iTunes still remains by far the most popular music service, but that new entrant Spotify is shooting rapidly up the charts, despite having only just celebrated its 1st birthday.

The survey asked...

Apple intros online iTunes Preview

Apple has introduced a new iTunes feature called iTunes Preview that lets those without the application, or those that don't want to launch the software in full, view some content.

Currently limited to music, it's a big change from Apple's previous way of...

iTunes Best Album and Song Awards nominations revealed

While preparations for the Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards are in full swing, Apple has announced the shortlists for the iTunes Best Album & Song 2009.

Selected by the iTunes UK editorial team in London, the shortlists have been compiled from the thousands...

Sony offers 1000 Ringtones for the iPhone

Sony Creative Software has announced the launch of "1000 Ringtones", a DVD containing ringtones designed for the Apple iPhone.

As well as music, the ringtones include sound effects and spoken words and users can select tones for incoming calls, emails and...

Beatles live performance coming to venue near you

That's a headline you could read in the not too distant future thanks to a new technology that is hoping to change the way we listen to music forever.

The concept, created by Zenph Studios and called "Re-Performance", works not by re-mastering music in the traditional...

iTunes to take on Cable with subscription offering?

Apple could be about to offer users of its Apple TV product the chance to watch all their favourite TV shows for $30 a month according to rumours.

Although Apple has so far refrained from a monthly subscription package similar to Napster or Spotify for music,...

Who'll be the casualties of Google Music?

Not content with crashing down hard on the satnav industry yesterday, today Google put the willies up the music industry too with the launch of a Google music search feature. Just before you go diving off to try it, it's only available in the US at the moment, but so...

MySpace hits next phase of music offering

MySpace has announced what it says is "the next phase" of its music offering with a wave of new products and tools now available to artists and fans.

As well as allowing users to buy music on iTunes in addition to Amazon MP3, the global rollout of a new "MySpace...

VIDEO: Fawlty Towers released on iTunes, remastered for DVD

To mark the 30th anniversary of the classic series, a special edition remastered DVD boxset of Fawlty Towers has been released while the original series has become available to download in the UK on the iTunes Store.

For the boxset, every episode of the of...

Daily Tech Deal: iPod touch with £15 iTunes credit and charger

It is rare that you find an Apple product associated with any kind of discount or offer. However, Currys appears to be doing just that with the offer of a free iTunes gift card and charger with the 8GB iPod touch.

Currys are suggesting that the free charger...

Which is the best online music service?

With Sky's announcement of the company's upcoming service, Sky Songs, we finally have proof that every man and his dog is getting in on the music scene. As a consumer, though, the picture just gets that little bit more complicated.

If you want all the music in...

Palm re-enables iTunes Pre syncing

In a cat and mouse battle, the style of which Apple is familiar with following similar exploits with the iPhone unlockers, Palm has re-enabled iTunes syncing for the Pre.

After Apple blocked the smartphone several times from syncing with iTunes via iTunes software...

VIDEO: doubleTwist parodies Apple's 1984 ad

doubleTwist, DVD Jon's media-syncing software company, is generating lots of publicity for a new version of its "media platform" product with a cheeky video that uses Apple's famous 1984 advert against it.

In the clip - shown above - drones wearing white iPod...

App Store downloads top two billion

Apple has revealed that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store.

This follows on from the 1.5 billion mark hit in July this year, a year on from the App Store's launch.

Claiming the service is "the largest applications...

Apple builds App Store Resource Center

Apple has made a new service to registered iPhone developers called the App Store Resource Centre. The centre is designed to help developers through the steps required to submit, gain approval and manage the applications they create and place on the App Store.

RIM, U2 ape iTunes LP with "album experience" BlackBerry app

Following the launch of Apple's iTunes 9 and its "iTunes LP" functionality, U2 and RIM have announced something rather similar for BlackBerry smartphone owners.

Using the same angle as Apple, the companies say they have "great news for digital music fans who...

Beatles and iPod touch camera no show, what happened?

The clues were all there, but as always the Apple faithful wished for more than the company could deliver.

In the end the one-hour keynote presentation presented Apple fans with a faster iPod touch, a nano with digital camera and an update to the iTunes store....

Apple iTunes 9 announced

Apple has announced the launch of iTunes 9 at It's Only Rock and Roll event in San Francisco.

The new music download software will add a host of new features bringing with it a Snow Leopard style interface allowing you to access the navigation menu from the...

The Apple iPod rumour round-up - 09.09.09

Yes, it's 09.09.09. The day has arrived. The day The Beatles digitised 14 of their albums for download and the day Apple refreshes its iPod range at a press conference in San Francisco to be beamed around the world.

The internet rumour mill has been churning...

Conflicting sources turn Beatles iTunes announcement into pantomime

"He's behind you, Oh no he's not," is the usual cry at the pantomime and the same is quickly happening to the much hyped Apple announcement on the 9 September as conflicting source of what will and what won't be announced crash against each other.

Whether or...

The Beatles heading to iTunes says Yoko Ono

Believe what you will, but when a major news organisation publishes then removes a story there is some cause for it to make headlines.

According to titbits scraped from an uncached and unseen story, Sky News in the UK is claiming that

"The whole...

Facebook 3.0 now available

Facebook 3.0 now available

Facebook and iPhone fans can now get the latest social networking app, after Apple has made the facebook 3.0 app available in the App Store around the globe.

The new update brings with it a wealth of new features including...

Apple iPod launch event rumoured for 9 September

Reports are coming in that suggest Apple has finalised the date for the media event to introduce its new line-up of iPods.

Apple is planning a now traditional September debut for the new devices and AppleInsider follows the D: All Things Digital in throwing...