Today must be the day that tech companies are killing off experiments that are becoming dead weight. Earlier today Facebook killed their daily deal experiment, and now I'm learning that Apple is killing their TV rental program in iTunes. Apple launched what was suppose to be a six month trial of TV show rentals on iTunes ...
It's the start of something new for Apple regarding app purchases. On Friday, Apple launched a 7-day return policy in Taiwan for app purchases make through the iTunes App Store. This will give customers in Taiwan 7 days to return their app for full refund. Here's what Apple stated about the new 7 day return policy: You ...
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) closed up today +3.73 (1.12%) at 336.13 on news of Apple's Mac business and rumors of Apple beefing up team for cloud computing services. Apple has moved up to the #4 spot in top PC vendors in the U.S. with an 8.5% market share, this according to MacObserver. Apple is aggressively growing their Mac business and ...
PushLife has just been acquired by Google for a reported $25 million. Founded by a former RIM (Blackberry) development executive Ray Reddy, PushLife allowed users to port their iTunes library to non-Apple phones. The interest from Google is obvious, let's port your iTunes library to Android smartphones and tablets. PushLife announced via it's website that "we’ll ...
Apple has added their Genius recommendation system to iPad apps in the app store. iPad tablet owners can now add Genius recommendations in the app store while browsing for new apps. If you own an iPad, simply enable "Genius" next to "Updates". Once enabled, you'll be given a list of apps that you may be interested in based ...
Right on the heels of the iPhone iOS 4 update becoming available in iTunes, Apple launches a second update - this time it's for the iPad. The iPad iOS 3.2.1 updates the iPad with the following: provides improved WiFi capability fixes the copy/paste of single-page PDF's in Mail addresses the issues that causes video playback to freeze improves the reliability ...
In an effort to add a little of humor and fun to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, someone decided to create an iPhone app that allows you to plug the gushing oil leak with your finger. The iPhone App is called Plug the BP Oil Spill and is available in the iTunes App ...