http://www.appleblast.com Apple Computers Product Information, News, and Reviews. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:35:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Around a month ago there was a hue and cry about how iTunes was using anti-competitive practices and that the price of music downloaded in Britain was higher than in the rest of the European Union. This time it seems that iTunes is slashing the price of downloads from the ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/02/19/itunes-download-prices-fall-next-a-hook-up-with-bbc/ Beginning with the 24 semifinalists of ‘American Idol’ this week from now on iTunes customer can buy music performances by the participants of the show for 99 cents per song. There is more money involved when the show is narrowed down to the top 12 finalists and performances will sell ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/02/18/your-idols-through-itunes/ The above picture apparently doesn’t have much truth in it. Recently the market has been rife with speculation that Apple was planning to develop a handheld gaming device of its own. However a source has said that as of now the company has no such plans to enter into the ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/02/17/no-iplay-for-now/ Apple’s attempt to stop iPhone’s from being unlocked doesn’t seem to be succeeding as it seems that iPhones are being purchased and unlocked all over the planet. Apple’s seems unable to keep the iPhone locked to AT&T, the telecom provider that pays Apple a handsome chunk of its service plan ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/01/31/apple-plays-truant-with-att/ Its always great being the head guy in a huge company. No matter what the financial situation of the company and whether it makes profits or incurs losses you always get your nice little pay package.  Despite the fact that Apple stocks have dropped drastically CEO Steve Jobs has still ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/01/23/jobs-still-rakes-it-in/     The people at Apple are out with the world’s slimmest laptop. And it is slimmer than the others by quite a margin. The entire laptop is less than an inch thin. The Mac Book Air as it is called though not having caused quite as much hype as the iPhone ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/01/14/the-slimmest-notebook-ever/   The European Union just put Apple back in its place. The Union which is formed by 27 countries has succeeded in forcing Apple computers to bring down the price per downloaded song in Britain to par with that in other European countries. Apple, now desperate to have the anti-trust case ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/01/11/eu-goes-one-up-over-apple/ Axiotron has come out with its Tablet Mac which has been authorized by Mac.  The MacBook was unveiled a year ago and features a stylus sensitive LCD slate style display from Wacom which allows you to write and draw onscreen. The tablet is the very height ... http://www.appleblast.com/2008/01/01/mac-licenses-tablet-pc/ Apple is going places. It has now signed a deal with 20th century Fox for rental of their videos. The rental service allows new users to watch clips of Fox movies by providing them clips which work for a specified amount of time.  20th Century Fox will be the first ... http://www.appleblast.com/2007/12/25/apple-on-a-conquering-mission-joins-hands-with-20th-century-fox/ Apple Computers has finally ended its epic battle against Think Secret that published confidential information about Apple. Apple first filed the suit nearly three years ago in January 2005 against the owner of the site Nick Ciarelli. Ciarelli is a Harvard alumnus who wrote under the pen name Nick DePlume ... http://www.appleblast.com/2007/12/20/apple-wins-legal-battle-loses-out-on-goodwill/