But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple? More than 2 million songs – including those by Amy Winehouse, U2 and 50 Cent – will be made available for download from Amazon’s US site, with tracks costing either .89 cents or .99 cents, and albums between $5.99 and $9.99. The […]

The current fight between the media companies versus the illegal boys versus iTunes is not much of a fight. The media companies stride into the ring, all prettified up – wearing satin trunks, doing exaggerated neck warm-ups and trying the intimidation stare … sure, they are still 6 feet tall but now they’re just 135 […]

First, ringtones are not a huge deal to me – other than me mocking the idiotic choices that people select for their ringtones … because nothing could be more gangsta than having a Young Jeezy ringtone go off as you ask your patient if they are Delta Dental 😉 You could not be more street […]

Are we getting a repeat of the iPod? There it is – a big target as big as daylight – right by the broad side of the barn … yet, after 6 years, you still get comments & reviews of competiting products that offer faint praise such as … “Slightly more expensive than the iPod,” […]

If you are a fan of Hong Kong vinyl or just weird and wacky things, KidRobot has plenty of items they can sell to you including ring tones! They currently don’t offer tones for all carriers and mfgs of phones but if you are on Cingular (AT&T), T-mobile, or Sprint you might be in luck […]

Universal Music will try anything to throw a wrench into the well-oiled machine that’s the iTunes music store. They just announced a deal to sell DRM free tracks to 4 other online music stores. After all, it’s not like Apple delivers some $750-$800 million dollars into Universal’s coffers … oh wait, they do. And yet, […]

Of course, iTunes will start to look into the iTunes Store for missing artwork as soon as you drag in new music files/tracks. The album artwork it does match up with your tracks are top notch. They are perfectly matched and 99.9% the best version resolution-wise out there. However, it can only find and “fix” […]

Since some 40-50% of iPhone users are reported to be newbies to the iTunes – here is a basic and beginners guide to getting music & video onto your iPhone (of course, if you’re new to iPods, most of this will also work for you). While iTunes is now the front end to syncing for […]

BTW, we have updated this post here – now up to 400 mini apps. Programmers are amazingly resourceful these days – give them access to HTML, Ajax and Javascript, and a challenge – there are already at least 200 mini apps for the iPhone. Note: Some of the links in this post are for the […]

The Universal boycott or game of chicken or gamesmanship is certainly an odd way to do business with iTunes. A writer from Forbes actually defends their actions as “good for industry.” Huh? WTH? Let’s review. CD sales are down. Free illegal downloads are still around. The ONLY major growth is LEGAL downloads of which iTunes […]