Articles about iTunes

Coming to Microsoft’s Windows Store: Apple iTunes, and Linux distributions

Apple’s iTunes software will be coming to the Windows Store, as Microsoft pushes to increase the popular software titles through its preferred… Read More

Apple and feds issue warning about iTunes gift card scams, say one victim lost $31K

iTunes gift cards have become a common tool for online scammers to wring money out of victims, according to new warnings from… Read More

Apple frustrated that it still can’t do for TV what it did for music

“I finally cracked it,” Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson. Jobs was referring to his company’s efforts… Read More

Apple Music will cost $9.99/month, launching June 30, coming this fall to Android and Windows

Apple just unveiled a new music service, Apple Music, that takes the tech company into the streaming music business for the first… Read More

Here are a few ways to help survivors of the Nepal earthquake

This weekend, a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal. It has been devastating to the region, in Kathmandu and surrounding areas, and… Read More

This is bleeping awesome: Amazon Echo’s Alexa will cuss on command

Alexa, the virtual personality behind Amazon Echo, will now repeat anything you want. As long as you don’t step into NSFW language,… Read More

Amazon Echo adds voice controls for Spotify, iTunes and Pandora, plus new ‘Simon Says’ feature

Amazon just added a pair of new features to its Echo intelligent talking speaker, providing voice controls for three third-party music services, and… Read More

News Brief

Apple makes ‘The Interview’ available on iTunes for $5.99 to rent, $14.99 to own

Four days after Microsoft and Google began streaming “The Interview,” Apple today made the movie available on iTunes to customers in the… Read More

Apple accused of deleting competitors’ music from iPods

Lawyers for the plaintiffs in Apple’s ongoing antitrust trial over its handling of music in iTunes have accused the company… Read More

News Brief

Apple lets users who hate free stuff ditch U2 album

As a part of its big press announcement last week, Apple announced that every iTunes user would get U2’s new… Read More

Apple releases a smorgasbord of updates, including OS X, iTunes and more

Mac users, start your updates: Apple has released a number of new patches today, including a fresh operating system update… Read More

Apple reportedly planning to buy Beats for $3.2B

Apple is planning on buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Financial Times. Beats, which… Read More

Apple launches promotion for set-top box following rumors of new hardware

Apple TV may be getting a refresh this spring. The Cupertino-based company launched a new promotion today that allows buyers… Read More

Disney launches new movie app with help from Apple

Disney moved further into the mobile era with the announcement today of the new Disney Movies Anywhere app, available for iOS and on the… Read More

Whose tunes? How iTunes Radio stacks up against the competition

With the launch of iOS 7 came iTunes Radio, Apple’s much-touted entry into the streaming radio space. The company that… Read More

iTunes rival: AmazonMP3 growing with 22% of online music downloads

iTunes has been the king of digital music downloads for the past ten years, but the latest numbers show Amazon… Read More

Microsoft amps up Xbox Music app with performance improvements, cloud syncing

The updates are flowing for Microsoft. Just a day after releasing fixes for its Windows 8 Mail, Calendar and People… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: iTunes Match, Google Music and Tunebox take tracks to the cloud

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we break down the latest developments in online music — including… Read More

Microsoft in hot water over Amy Winehouse tweet, but is backlash really fair?

A tweet by Microsoft UK caused an uproar today by suggesting its followers remember the late singer Amy Winehouse by… Read More

Apple’s iCloud: Photo Stream is slick, iTunes Match is a half-step

For all the buzz about Apple offering its own cloud-based music service, the part of the company’s iCloud announcement today… Read More

Android users not playing around: Games scarce among most popular apps

The world of Apple’s iTunes App Store is dominated by games. Of the top 10 free apps as currently listed,… Read More

The Beatles help boost digital music sales, but is it a one-time surge?

If there were one song from The Beatles that represented the state of the music industry in 2011, it would… Read More

RealNetworks plans new digital photo and video utilities, too

Turns out RealNetworks isn’t just getting into the business of cleaning up iTunes music libraries. The digital media pioneer, trying… Read More

RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes

RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and… Read More