Tag: itunes

  • Jobs lands Disney!

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    Steve Jobs has managed to sell Pixar Animation Studios to Disney for $7.4 billion in stock. As part of the deal, Pixar shareholders will receive 2.3 Disney shares for every Pixar share they own. Steve Jobs currently owns 50.6% of Pixar so this deal will mean that Steve jobs is going to become the single…

  • Is on-demand TV in the offing?

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    I see CBS and NBC are following ABC’s lead and are now offering some of their shows on-demand – but unlike ABC and iTunes combo, CBS and NBC are offering the shows for 99c an episode (as opposed to $1.99 for ABC) and the shows will include ads (ABC’s are without ads). CBS are offering…

  • Video search via rss

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    Yahoo! have posted a nice instruction set on their blog, detailing how to subscribe your copy of iTunes to video searches of interest so that you are constantly fed relevant updated video casts! Basically, to do it you simply use the RSS url generator to generate the RSS feed for your video search, add that…

  • Apple introduces new iMac

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    At the San Jose event today Steve jobs also announced a new iMac G5. See here for more The new iMac is thinner than its predecessors, it has a built-in iSight camera for video conferencing, and it has a new application called Front Row. Front Row is a program which allows imac owners to use…

  • Video iPod and new iTunes

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    Apple, after much anticipation, released the video iPod at their “one More Thing…” event in San Jose today. The new model is 30 percent thinner than previous models, has a larger 2.5-inch QVGA display with 324 x 240 resolution, at 30fps, 260,000 color 2.5-inch display, H.264 support, and either a 30 or 60GB hard drive…

  • Yahoo! attacks iTunes podcast monopoly

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    Yahoo! have just rolled out Yahoo! Podcasts – a service which lets users find, listen and subscribe to podcasts. PodTech has an interview with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo!’s Chief Product Officer about the new offering where he says: We want this to be as open as possible on both ends. We want to work with every…