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 studios close to $16 per sale for these new releases. While this price may be less [...]

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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 addressed this particular topic in a new knowledgebase article that talks about backing up [...]

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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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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 at that. It is now possible to download the DVD you’ve long been awaiting to be released [...]

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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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Overtaking the previous #1 music retailer; Wal-Mart, Apple Inc. is now the top seller of music in America.
The iTunes Store leads the pack with 19 percent, Wal-Mart (which includes the brick-and-mortar stores as well as its online properties) is second with 15 percent, and Best Buy is third with 13 percent. Amazon is a distant fourth [...]

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On April 2nd, Apple released a new version of their iTunes software. There are no visible visual changes, thus, it must simply be bug fixes in this update.
The update can be downloaded by going to iTunes’ Apple menu, then selecting Software Update.
A notice of the past. iTunes updates have been usually bringing new iPhone/Touch updates. [...]

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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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So sayeth sources close to Business week. You may recall a few days ago that the Financial Times floated the rumor that Apple was after the record labels to cut a deal that would allow Apple to offer unlimited iTunes music rentals on the cheap with the option to keep a few dozen each [...]

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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 hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.

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According to the Financial Times, Apple is in talks with the Big Four music companies in an effort to bring unlimited music rentals to the iPod and iPhone lines. It is said that both an iPod-bundled package (for a premium price) is being considered, as well as the possibility for an annual subscription service. [...]

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If you’ve loaded iTunes today, you may have noticed a couple of updates waiting in the form of both an iTunes update to 7.6.1.9, and a rather hefty firmware update for iPhone and iPod Touch to version 1.1.4. (So much for the “Update 2″ rumor) Thus far, tests have confirmed that the upgrade [...]

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