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Apple’s next iPod could allow users to read eBooks on its widescreen display, according to a report by Engadget. The gadget site claims that two “trustworthy” sources have provided details on Apple’s eBook plans, including the possibility of eBooks being sold on the iTunes Music Store.
Reuters
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group on Tuesday became the latest division of a major Hollywood studio to offer television shows, including the hit sitcom "Friends," for sale on Apple Computer Inc's iTunes Web site.
Warner Bros put up a total of 113 episodes of "Friends," sci-fi series "Babylon 5," the animated classics "The Jetsons" and "The Flintstones," as well as skits from "MADtv" and an unaired pilot called "Aquaman" by the writers of "Smallville."
ReutersMetallica, one of the biggest acts yet to make its music available for sale via Apple's iTunes Music Store, has ended its holdout. The enduring hard rock outfit's work went on sale Tuesday via the U.S. and Canada editions of the digital store.
Daring Fireball
Q: So what [Microsoft has] done is leak a November release date and a fantastic feature list -- a feature list that the next batch of new iPods, no matter how cool, are unlikely to match -- and hope that people will wait for the Zune. And then even when it misses the holiday season and slips into 2007, and won’t include all of the previously-promised features, they’ll say it wasn’t their fault (despite the fact that the whole point of the Zune platform model is that Microsoft controls the entire system) but that it’ll be worth the wait anyway. That sound right?
A: SIGNS POINT TO YES.
InfoWorldApple loyalists who scoff at the idea that anyone, including or especially Microsoft, can take marketshare from Apple's iPod, are forgetting a very basic business truth...
What the loyalists are forgetting is the fact that unlike a relatively small cadre, albeit in the millions, of shoppers who will buy nothing but Apple products, the mass market, hundreds of millions, does not work like that.
Playlist Mag
Over the past six months or so, the iPod-inspired clothing/bag market has reawakened, with a number of vendors -- both big and small -- creating clothes and bags with iPod playback controls and storage as an integral part of the products’ designs. We’ve gathered up a number of these “fabric gadgets”; here’s what we think about the Second Wave of iPod apparel.
Think SecretWith three weeks until Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Think Secret has learned exclusively that CEO Steve Jobs will use his keynote address to announce the debut of movie rentals through the iTunes Music Store. While the announcement will undoubtedly be billed as a further extension of iTunes' dominance in digital media downloads, it represents a coup for the movie industry, which will have succeeded in standing its ground against Apple's pressures to offer consumers the option of owning movie downloads.
Wired NewsIt's like listening to a middle-aged drunkard's iPod set to shuffle, but the Jack FM radio format is spreading across the dial.
Apple Insider
According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is so far believed to have committed to the transition away from the nano's polycarbonate-coated shell and towards aluminum enclosures. The new enclosures are expected to debut in color variations similar to those used with the iPod mini, these sources added.
MP3.com
Apple appears to be planning a future iPod talk so that users can pick the next song without having to look at the screen. A recent patent filing by the company points to the device having the ability to read artist names and album and song titles to someone during "eyes busy situations," such as driving or bicycling.
APThree hours before a start against Florida, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings sits in front of his locker, puts on his headphones and stares at his video iPod...Jennings is doing some last-minute cramming: The Rockies’ video staff has downloaded every Marlins hitter into his iPod, and Jennings is figuring out how to pitch to them. He watches frames of himself delivering the pitch, followed by the result of the play. Everything else is weeded out.
Apple InsiderA recent series of design filings made by Apple Computer suggests the company may have intentions of abandoning its Click-Wheel interface in future versions of its iPod digital music players.
In January of 2006, Apple successfully registered a total of 10 new iPod interface designs with a European trademark and design office. They depict versions of both the iPod nano and fifth-generation video iPod not yet released by the company.
ReutersMicrosoft will start selling a wireless digital music and video player to compete with Apple's iPod by Christmas, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
The new player, which Microsoft Corp. has been touting to record companies in the last few weeks, will let users download music and videos over the air, according to one source, a feature which would give it an edge over the iPod.
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