Appleinsider reports that Apple will be increasing their direct marketing against Microsoft's Vista operating system with Apple Store materials:
Anti-Vista Marketing at Apple Stores
Anti-Vista Marketing at Apple Stores
Norway's Consumer Council applauded signs of willingness from Apple to open its iTunes music store to players other than its iPod, but said Wednesday the company was skirting key issues and passing responsibility to record companies. Norway is leading a European campaign to force Apple to make its iTunes online store compatible with rivals' digital music players.
Norway Agency: Apple Needs to Address Key DRM Issues
Norway Agency: Apple Needs to Address Key DRM Issues
More than two years after conception, Apple is reported to have finally got the ball rolling on a series of retail stores destined for the land of Oz.
According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Cupertino-based Mac maker is putting the...
Wheels in motion for first Australian Apple stores
According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Cupertino-based Mac maker is putting the...
Wheels in motion for first Australian Apple stores
Apple plans to crank up the anti-Vista rhetoric at its international chain of retail stores later this week, the latest move in a broader bid by the Mac maker to undermine the new operating system release from rival Microsoft Corp.
The campaign, s...
Apple to target Vista at retail stores
The campaign, s...
Apple to target Vista at retail stores
Despite calls by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs for major record labels to drop their anti-piracy requirements for songs sold over online music stores, there is less than a 25 percent chance the labels will bite, says research and investment firm P...
Chances of DRM-free iTunes Store are low, says firm
Chances of DRM-free iTunes Store are low, says firm
A truce struck between the two most famous Apple companies has cleared a path to iPods pre-stuffed with content, just as Wal-Mart takes its latest potshot at iTunes' throne with its own web store. Meanwhile, two decidedly more physical Apple stores ...
Briefly: Preloaded iPods, Wal-Mart movies, Apple stores
Briefly: Preloaded iPods, Wal-Mart movies, Apple stores
Apple indicated it would open its iTunes store to other portable players besides its ubiquitous iPod if the world's major record labels abandoned the anti-piracy technology that serves as the industry's security blanket. Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, made the case for abolishing the protections known as Digital Rights Management, or DRM, in an open letter posted Tuesday on the company's Web site.
Jobs: Record Labels Should Dump DRM
Jobs: Record Labels Should Dump DRM
Looprumors posts a letter from Apple to the FCC asking for confidentiality regarding the FCC documents for the iPhone until June 15, 2007.
Apple iPhone on June 15th
Apple iPhone on June 15th
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called upon the big four music companies to drop their anti-piracy restrictions and allow digital music tracks to be sold openly on the Internet for any brand of digital music player.
In a letter title...
Steve Jobs: Apple would embrace DRM-free music 'in a heartbeat'
In a letter title...
Steve Jobs: Apple would embrace DRM-free music 'in a heartbeat'
Apple this week acknowledged that its 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference will take place during the second week of June in downtown San Francisco, two months earlier than the previous year.
The Mac maker said the annual gathering of software and...
Apple confirms June date for Worldwide Developers Conference
The Mac maker said the annual gathering of software and...
Apple confirms June date for Worldwide Developers Conference
This afternoon, Steve Jobs posted an article entitled Thoughts on Music on Apple.com.
Steve Jobs 'Thoughts on Music' - Asks for No Digital Rights Management
Steve Jobs 'Thoughts on Music' - Asks for No Digital Rights Management
Apple has announced some preliminary details about this years Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
Apple Announces Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2007
Apple Announces Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2007
The final curtain may eventually fall on the drama of digital rights management, but for now it's slowly playing out in various courtrooms around the globe. Although DRM issues are not exclusive to Steve Jobs, et al., Apple invariably takes center stage as prosecutors pontificate on the evil of corporate greed, using the iPod/iTunes combo as a favorite example.
Is DRM Really What's Eating Apple
Is DRM Really What's Eating Apple
Users of Apple's iTunes who upgrade to Windows Vista may encounter significant problems with their iTunes software, according to a statement from the company. As a result of compatibility issues, Apple is encouraging Windows-based iTunes users to hold off on upgrading to Vista until the new version of the iTunes music software is released in the next few weeks.
Apple Warns iTunes Users to Wait on Vista
Apple Warns iTunes Users to Wait on Vista
In Apple's quarterly 10Q filing, filed last Friday, Apple acknowledged the ongoing SEC investigations into the company's past stock options backdating practices as a considerable risk, and adds that the potential exists for further delay of SEC filin...
Apple Believes SEC Investigation Poses Risk
Apple Believes SEC Investigation Poses Risk
Apple has reached a settlement with the company that manages the Beatles' intellectual property holdings, ending a trademark lawsuit and possibly paving the way for Beatles songs to be sold through the iTunes Music Store. On Monday, Apple announced the pact with The Beatles' music publisher Apple Corps, in which both firms reached a deal to replace a 1991 agreement and to settle an Apple Corps lawsuit.
Apple, Beatles Come Together Over Lawsuits
Apple, Beatles Come Together Over Lawsuits
Apple is suggesting that Windows iPod users hold off on upgrading to rival Microsoft Corp.'s latest operating system update until after the next version of iTunes becomes available.
iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs, t...
Apple to iTunes users: hold off on that Vista upgrade
iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs, t...
Apple to iTunes users: hold off on that Vista upgrade
Silence is music to Michael Fridgen's ears. During a recent class at Pinecrest Elementary School in Hastings, Minn., Fridgen's students worked alone and in pairs with iPods in hand and large black earphones covering their ears. The only sound was the occasional shuffling of paper -- a worksheet about adjectives -- as they listened to a podcast their teacher created.
Teacher Makes Music Matter With iPods
Teacher Makes Music Matter With iPods
Apple is urging some iPod and iTunes users to hold off on upgrading computers to Windows Vista, warning that the iTunes music software may not work well with the new operating system from rival Microsoft. Apple said iTunes may work with many Vista computers, but the company knows of some compatibility problems.
Apple Warns of Vista iTunes Problems
Apple Warns of Vista iTunes Problems
Apple surprised more than a few industry pundits when it snuck out a rainbow of iPod shuffle colors at the end of January. Ever since it first hit the streets in 2005, the shuffle has been seen as the runt of the litter in Apple's music player line,...
Review: iPod shuffle 1GB (second-generation, colored shell)
Review: iPod shuffle 1GB (second-generation, colored shell)
