New iTunes special – $0.99 movie rentals

During one of the recent iTunes Video Spotlight emails Apple sends out, Apple announced that every Thursday there would be a new $0.99 movie rental available. The special price is good Thursdays until Mondays, but the regular movie rental rules still apply.

iPhone SDK delayed 1-3 weeks?

February is almost over and there is no sign of the software development kit (SDK) for iPhone. Steve Jobs promised that it would be in developer’s hands by the end of this month and it doesn’t look like that’s likely. The opportunity to send out media invitations is long gone and considering that the SDK [...]

iPod shuffle 2GB for $69 coming soon, 1GB for $49

Apple cut the price of iPod shuffle today, bringing the 1GB version down from $79 to $49. Also, they announced a 2GB shuffle for $69 which is coming soon.

HD DVD is officially dead, Blu-ray wins the war

Straight from Toshiba’s press conference happening right now in Japan, before they even started speaking, “Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses.” They will no longer “develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” They will cease production approximately March 2008, HD DVD disks for applications and games will end then as well.
via Engadget

Palm Centro available on AT&T

After a long wait, the Palm Centro has officially been released to AT&T. Sprint’s exclusivity has ended on the device, and the Centro now is an GSM device with EDGE (a bit slower than the EV-DO from Sprint.) It costs $99 with a contract and features a touchscreen, the full QWERTY keyboard (with a green [...]

Tiny Code NOT working with Apple on SDK/1.1.4

Over the past couple of days, many have been in belief that Tiny Code, an iPhone development firm, has stated that they were in talks with Apple and were helping make the SDK. They specifically stated that they were helping with the SDK and that it would use iTunes, and a new 1.1.4 firmware would [...]

American Idol on iTunes

Apple announced a deal with Fox today to provide all of the American Idol performances through iTunes. After this week’s show, you will be able to buy the songs performed by the Top 24 semifinalists for 99¢ and right now, you can pre-order the song from your favorite contestant and it will automatically download the [...]

Toshiba ends HD DVD’s misery; Blu-ray the winner

Toshiba will officially “exit from the next generation DVD business” business next week, according to Reuters. After Walmart, Best Buy, Netflix and Blockbuster endorsed Blu-ray and almost all of the major studios supported Blu-ray as well, it was pretty safe to say that this was expected. So its finally official, Blu-ray is the winner of the format [...]

Apple announced Aperture 2 for $199

The Apple Store was down this morning and when it came back, Aperture 2 popped up and surprised us. The new Aperture will retail for $199 and be available as a $99 upgrade for previous versions. It is apparently much faster and includes “over 100 new features.”

Apple TV take 2 update now available

Apple has finally released the upgrade for Apple TV users that will enable features like movie rentals, .Mac and Flickr photos, and more. If you go into Settings on Apple TV, it should say update software. The update takes about 5 minutes to download and it takes a bit longer to install, but it should [...]

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