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One Phillip Lüpke downloads 25 billionth song, wins over $13K worth of iTunes content
As life has it, some destinies are sweeter than most others. The same goes to Phillip Lüpke who has struck a pot of gold on a casual morning walk (figuratively speaking). So, this morning, our man decides to download a song off iTunes and it happens to be the 25 billionth song and voila, he…
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Apple iTunes Store crosses 25 billion song downloads
Apple has been dominating headlines recently, with the spotlight being turned onto the American technology manufacturer time and again. The company has now announced yet another milestone – the sale of 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store. The Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, also mentioned the fact that…
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Flutter application enables gesture control using Kinect for iTunes on Macs
It’s been a while since the good old iTunes could do more than just play and organize your music. We just came across a splendid new application that gives you gesture control on the iTunes application for Macs! Available for download and currently in its development stages, the Flutter application simply uses the iSight Camera…
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iTunes finally inflicted with first bit of malware
For all those Apple fans who believed that their sleek minimalist devices were safe from malware, I bring no good news. Carlie Miller, known for less popular Apple hacks has gone on to roll out an application that totally resembles the stock market application on Apple devices. However, when it’s installed, it resides on the…
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BlackBerry Messenger Service Rumored to Hit iTunes Store on 26th April
Earlier this month, we did hear that that RIM was gauging the idea of bringing its BlackBerry messenger service for Android and iOS platforms. And now Apple rumor mills have been saying that April 26 has been marked as the official release date for BBM service in iTunes app store. This tip isn’t baseless for…
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Apple looks to upgrade sound quality of music downloads
Apple and various other digital music retailers are looking to improve the quality of the song files they sell, at a premium. This means online music stores could eventually offer songs that sound truer to their original recordings. Albums are generally captured in a studio recordings in a 24-bit, high-fidelity audio format but they are…
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Apple winner disconnects her $10,000 prize call
In a world where we are inundated with crank calls, membership calls or even product reviews for products we’ve never seen how does one filter the genuine ones? Gail Davis, a woman in Orpington, England, found out the hard way after she hung up on Apple. Davis’s household was the one from which the 10…
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The Long Awaited Mini Connected App Finally Available in iTunes
The Mini Connected App which was long in the development phase is finally available on iTunes. Referred as nothing less than an epitome of infotainment technology, this app empowers BMW’s any 2011 mini to stream Internet Radio via 3G routes to the audio system. For the social networking freak in you, RSS news feeds and…
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Sony’s streaming music service to head-butt iTunes
Sony is making itself heard amid all the hype that other major labels are stirring with phone operating systems. The manufacturer has made a statement with the release of the music streaming service called Qriocity. It’s powered by Music Unlimited and is something like a cloud-based digital music service. Where this one scores over the…
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Richard Branson’s Project magazine top hit iTunes promises to be “within shouting distance of the cutting edge”
A few days ago we heard that Virgin chairman and all around fun guy, Richard Branson, was planning on announcing an all new iPad only magazine codenamed ‘Project’ and that has now come to be. It’s been designed to take digital news to a very new entertainment based level the likes of which we haven’t…
