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The iBooks Profitability Puzzle January 24, 2012 
Apple's iBooks textbook initiative, launched just last week, has clearly struck a chord in the market. Ditto its accompanying textbook authoring tool, iBooks Author. Both have taken off at a significant pace, according to a report by Global Equities Research. More than 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded via iBooks over the past three days.
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SOPA Shellacked, PIPA Plastered January 21, 2012 
The Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as "SOPA," is losing friends fast, and now it looks like there's a good chance it'll lose the support it needs to make it out of Congress alive, much less the White House. SOPA and its Senate bill cousin PIPA, the Protect IP Act, have been controversial from the beginning, but a recent round of protests have made them almost toxic.
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New Apple Offerings Could Retool Education January 20, 2012 
Apple's release of some new tools for the education market has the potential to transform both the teaching and learning experiences in the nation's schools, according to William Rankin, an academic at the forefront of bringing technology to the college campus.
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Amazon's Graceful Dance Around Apple's App Store Rules January 12, 2012 
Because Apple has this pesky rule against running apps on iOS devices that direct you away from Apple's ecosystem to buy competing products without using Apple e-commerce engines to handle the transaction -- and shuffle 30 percent of the sale to Apple's bank account -- it's has been a bit harder to buy Amazon.com-based Kindle e-books to read on an iOS device through the Kindle app.
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Apple Could Bring Order to a Messy Mediascape January 05, 2012 
I thought for sure that Apple's next big media splash without Steve Jobs would be all about an Apple iPad 3. So I was surprised to hear about an upcoming media-focused event slated for the end of this month in New York. There's a smattering of reports that don't actually directly cite anyone on the record, but the nature of the reports and event lead me to believe they're basically true.
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Kindle Fire Makes Apple Sweat E-Books January 03, 2012 
Apple will hold an event in New York at the end of the month at which it will make some sort of media-related announcement, according to a recent report. Whatever news Apple shares at the event, it may relate heavily with advertising or publishing, because Eddy Cue is said to be involved. Cue's in charge of several of Apple's media units, including the iTunes Store, iBookstore and the company's iAds platform.
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Google Takes Aim at iTunes but Only Hits the Haters November 17, 2011 
I've been following Google Music with a bit of interest, starting with the beta. I must admit, though, that my interest is pretty much just academic, on the off chance that Google might actually announce a new service that's not only easy to use and ubiquitous, but also so compelling that I had to jump on board. The Google Music shown Wednesday is not it.
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Apple Strikes Up Match November 15, 2011 
Apple has released a new edition of iTunes, version 10.5.1, which includes its belated iTunes Match service. iTunes Match scans a user's library to form a comprehensive list of the user's songs, including music that was not purchased from the Apple iTunes store. If it finds a match in iTunes, Apple then provides the with a cloud-based version of the same song from iTunes.
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What's the Holdup on iTunes Match? November 04, 2011
When Apple announced its new subscription music service iTunes Match in June, it vowed the offering would be online by the end of October. Well, Halloween has come and gone, and Apple fans still haven't seen the service. What's the holdup?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5, iCloud: All the Pretty Pieces Come Together October 12, 2011 
Apple made available on Wednesday the newest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5. In order to get it, iDevice users will need to install the newly updated iTunes 10.5, which rolled out Tuesday. The new system enables iPhone users to sync their devices with their Macs or PCs via WiFi instead of tethering the phone to the computer.
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iPhone 5 Hopefuls Get Over It, Scoop Up 1M iPhone 4Ss October 12, 2011 
Apple lost its iconic cofounder Steve Jobs one week ago. Tributes and eulogies came from global leaders in every sphere, from politics to arts and, of course, technology. "You can definitely see the sentiment in Silicon Valley. It's very sad," Trip Chowdhry, senior analyst for Global Equities Research, told MacNewsWorld.
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Fire vs. iPad: Pick Your Garden September 29, 2011 
Starting at a mind-warping US$199, the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has nailed a price point that the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Color was only able to flirt with. Put it this way: As a consumer-oriented device ready to deliver e-books, movies, TV shows, apps, Web browsing and email, two Kindle Fire tablets can be purchased for $100 less than the $499 Apple iPad 2.
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The Wedding Crashers September 03, 2011 
Nobody expected AT&T to have an especially easy time convincing regulators to allow it to buy up rival wireless carrier T-Mobile. AT&T announced its intentions last Spring to purchase the fourth-largest U.S. carrier from parent company Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, and critics from all corners wasted no time expressing why they thought that would be a very bad idea.
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iTunes TV Show Rentals Canceled for Low Ratings August 29, 2011
Apple has stopped offering 99-cent TV show rentals from iTunes. The decision comes about a year after the option debuted. Movie rentals are still available. TV shows may still be purchased for download, usually for the price of $1.99 to $2.99. The move appears to be in response to user demand for owning a show rather than just using it for a short period of time.
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What Happens When Apple's Rules Stop Making Sense August 11, 2011 
For some businesses, Apple's App Store rules just don't make business sense. In fact, in some situations, some businesses that play by Apple's rules can delight their customers and yet end up losing more money than before they even entered the App Store ecosystem. It all comes down to Apple's 30 percent cut of App Store-based sales and a business' existing customer base.
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Is It Time for iTunes to Wade Into the Stream? August 05, 2011
Apple is ready to launch a service that will allow iTunes users to stream TV shows and movies that they've purchased, according to a report Thursday in AppAdvice. The service, which is referred to internally at Apple as "iTunes Replay," will let users re-download TV shows and movies that they already own, as well as stream them to the company's set-top offering, Apple TV, according to the report.
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