As rumored, Apple just announced Apple TV 3.0, with an all new interface and support for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras. "The new software for Apple TV features a simpler and faster interface that gives you instant access to your favorite content," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of Internet Services. "HD [...]

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Apple TV 3.0 is Here!

Apple this afternoon released a point update to iTunes, bringing the latest version to 9.0.2. iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility. Needless to say, according to our friends at PreCentral.net, it also kills Palm Pre [...]

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Apple Releases iTunes 9.0.2 (Yes, it Kills Palm Pre Sync Again)

Streaming music has gotten pretty popular among iPhone owners and today we’d like to introduce you to one more option, Lala. Lala gives you the ability to listen to any song for free one time. If you happen to like the song you pay $0.10 for unlimited listening. And at $0.10 per “Web Song” you [...]

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Lala iPhone Music Streaming App Coming Soon

MacRumors has been tipped that users attempting to make purchases in iTunes today are being greeted with new Terms of Service (TOS) which include the following, tantalizing line: The Terms of Sale have been revised to clarify that you can now use iTunes LPs and iTunes Extras on Apple TV with software version 3.0 [...]

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iTunes TOS Leak Apple TV 3.0 with iTunes LP and iTunes Extra Support

How important is the iPhone to Apple’s business going forward? See the chart above, prepared by Fortune. Up from 5.7% in 2008 to 18.5% in 2009. We’re going to say “very” and “increasingly”. Daring Fireball highlights how Apple goes about ensuring that “increasingly” part, riffing off The Loop’s reminder of when Apple killed the iPod mini [...]

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How Important is iPhone to Apple’s Business? And Who Thinks it Stinks?

TechCrunch has posted an interesting photo and write up of the Apple Tablet that never was — the Pen Mac, unreleased in favor of the PDA-style Newton back in 1990. The Pen Mac was a fully functional Mac computer (it even played the Mac startup chime) with a pen based touch screen. The screen [...]

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Pen Mac — the Original Apple iTablet

Looks like the rumors were true and Apple is finally set to replace the aging, WindowsCE + stylus based EasyPay point-of-sale devices used by the retail store staff with sexy new credit card reading, barcode scanning iPod touches. Apple will be using the same accessory access APIs supplied to developers in the iPhone 3.0 SDK. AppleInsider [...]

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Apple Retail Stores: Buh-Bye WindowsCE, Hello iPod touch!

So while the dust is by no means settling following Google’s bombshell announcement of their free Google Maps Navigation app for Android 2.0, it’s thinning enough that we can start to survey the landscape again. In terms of the iPhone, Google is saying they’re working with Apple to add the same or similar navigation features to [...]

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What Google Navigation Means for iPhone Maps App, and for Turn-by-Turn Competitors