“Until today, anyone who wished to upgrade his or her music from iTunes’ protected format to iTunes Plus was required to upgrade every track in his or her library.”
That’s no longer the case. And about time too – particularly for serious music fans the previous situation was punitive. So good it’s happened
Apple this morning has introduced an all-new version of its software development kit for the iPhone, SDK 2.2.1.
“Log in to the iPhone Dev Center to download iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 2.2.1. Installation of iPhone SDK 2.2.1 is required for development with devices updated to iPhone OS 2.2.1.
Apple today announced that Mark Papermaster will indeed be coming to Apple as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24.
The news follows weeks of wrangling between Apple and IBM, the latter firm had blocked the appointment arguing its former executive knew too many trade secrets to work at a competing firm. How the situation was resolved has not been disclosed.
A week before Snow Patrol’s special appearance at the Apple Store on Regent Street on February 13, Innerpartysystem will perform a stripped-down set in-store on February 6, featuring a pair of iPhones as instrumentation.
More from the wonderful world of digital music marketing, with UK artist Lily Allen releasing a free album mini-mix MP3 from her new album “It’s Not Me, It’s You”.
The mix emerges as Allen prepares to release the album, her second, on February 9 in the UK. Distorted Loop readers can download the mini-mix promo right here.
The full album features twelve new tracks and is the follow up to her debut “Alright Still” which sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and spawned the classic Number One single “Smile”. T
The Apple machine continues to roll, with the company reporting record Q1 financial results featuring record iPod and iPhone sales and dropping some insights onto its future netbook plans.
The company achieved record revenue of $10.17 billion and record net quarterly profit of $1.61 billion. These compare to revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, in the year-ago quarter.
Apple sold 2,524,000 Macs, 22,727,000 iPods and 4,363,000 iPhones in the quarter, the latter representing 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
Microsoft has taken a stab at the UK’s mobile music artist, this morning introducing a new music download service through MSN Mobile.
The new service is attempting to tempt UK consumers to purchase and download songs, realtones and music videos from thousands of major artists as well as up and coming acts.
The content licenses and technical platform for MSN Mobile Music is offered in partnership with VidZone Digital Media.
UK digital music retailer 7digital.com this week released figures which confirm a huge increase in sales following the company’s first to market move to offer music for sale online free of DRM.
The company’s fourth quarter sales grew over 260 per cent on strength of it offering tracks in high-quality MP3 format, free of restrictive DRM.
News out of Midem, where the Indie Mobile arm of the [PIAS] Entertainment Group, have reached a deal with US mobile content and widget specialist Dijit to be their exclusive European distribution partner.
Dijit’s widget allows labels and artists to sell direct to fans through their MySpace and Facebook sites without the need to set up cumbersome web shops. Continue reading