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[pretty picture coming later; I'm at work without accecss to my iTunes, 'k?]
Alright folks. Those of you furiously doing the pee dance for the official release of Firmware 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch can stop now, [...]

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Gentlemen, start your iTunes. Word around the water cooler is that Apple might just be getting set to unleash the finalized iPhone 2.0 firmware to the masses this Friday. Sources inside Cupertino’s software development cubes is apparently are claiming [...]

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According to Apple’s iPhone 3G Specifications page, iTunes 7.7 will be required to make use of the new product. As of today, the only iTunes version available to us is 7.6.2.
Looking back, all iPhone and iPod updates require an iTunes upgrade [...]

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Apple always shares videos and podcasts of Steve Jobs’ Keynote presentations, and this year is no different. This video is available on the web, and through iTunes.
This week they’ve given these videos an official home in the iTunes Store. The Apple Keynotes [...]

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It must be nice to work for O2. Apparently, their employees were getting as much as 20% off the purchase of a new iPhone through their employee discount. Unfortunately, some employees at their London, England branches were abusing that [...]

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On May 20th, Apple had released a new ad for iTunes, featuring the band Coldplay. The advertisement makes use of Apple’s well known silhouette-ad style, endoursing a beautiful spectrum of color. The band sings their new song Viva la Vida within the [...]

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Since we’re on the subject of security, phishing has taken a new tack recently. It seems that phishers are now targeting iTunes users in attempts to steal their personal information.
The scam this time around attempts to convince users that there [...]

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(FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so [...]

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Napster has recently announced the transition to all DRM-free MP3s several months back. The service now has their entire catalogue of over 6 million songs up and running, ready for your purchasing.
This means that all the [...]

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(FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so [...]

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According to the Wall Street Journal (see here), Apple Inc. is actually losing money with each new-release movie sold on iTunes. New movies currently cost $14.99, but accoring to someone familiar with the matter, Apple is actually paying the [...]

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Putting aside for the moment the likes of TimeCapsule for the jailbreakers, iTunes itself does have the ability to perform backups of your core iPhone and iPod Touch data — contact list, calendar events, that sort of thing.  Apple have finally [...]

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(FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so [...]

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iTunes movies aren’t available until about 30 to 45 days after they’ve been released on DVD at your local retail shop. Actually, they weren’t… until now. That’s right, Apple has made a change - and a good one [...]

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