Apple is planning to launch a video download service in europe come Spring. It is yet unknown which countries will be recieving the service, although it is likely that Luxembourg will recieve it as it will be the base of the operation.
Jeannot Krecke, Luxembourg’s economy minister old the Agence France-Presse that “Apple is going to extend its electronic retail activities in Luxembourg by launching this coming spring its iTunes video platform for the sale of videos in Europe.”
Krecke said Apple bosses have been in discussion “for several months” with Luxembourg authorities. The deal is pending official confirmation from Apple, he noted.
Corgi have released a speaker for the iPod. The speaker resembles a sports car, while all you have to do is plug your iPod into the dock connector on the top to listen to your tunes. The car also flashes its neon lights in time with yor music.
Apple are offering a free download demo of the game “Vortex” through iTunes. “Vortex is an intense, futuristic 360º brick-bashing arcade-style game,” says Apple. “Maneuver the bat around the edge of the Vortex to block the ball and keep it in play. Smash bonus bricks for power-ups. Destroy all of the bricks to enter the Vortex and advance to higher levels.” The Game which can only be played on the iPod Video would usually retail for £3.99.
Apple today announced that the world’s most wearable digital music player is now available in five brilliant colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver.
“With the shuffle, color is arguably more important because you’re going to wear it and when you’re going to wear it, it becomes more of a fashion item,'’ Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of worldwide iPod product marketing, said today in an interview. “For that reason, we think people will want to buy more than one.'’
More countries have joined the coalition to expand the limits set on iTunes for downloading songs onto your iPod. As reported earlier a consumer watchdog in Norway has deemed iTunes illegal because it doesn’t allow music downmloaded from it to be played on anything else except the iPod.
The Dutch consumer protection agency became the latest in Europe on Thursday to pressure Apple Inc. into changing restrictions that tie songs bought on iTunes to its market-leading iPod players.
“What we want from Apple is that they remove the limitations that prevent you from playing a song you download from iTunes on any player other than an iPod,” van Kouwen said. “When you buy a music CD it doesn‘t play only on players made by Panasonic. People who download a song from iTunes shouldn‘t be bound to an iPod for the rest of their lives.”
Drug addicts who kick their habit are to be rewarded with iPods, televisions and shopping vouchers on the NHS under controversial guidelines unveiled by the Government’s health service rationing watchdog.
Under the drug addict scheme, an estimated 50,000 could be rewarded for trying to quit, receiving vouchers and prizes for providing drug-free urine samples, with the size of the reward increasing with the amount of time spent drug-free.
Drug workers described the proposals as “ridiculous” and warned that it could lead to addicts trading vouchers and prizes to feed their habit. There are also fears that addicts could easily cheat on the urine tests.
David Raynes, of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: “Some of this seems ridiculous. Giving people iPods is nonsense. It seems to be on the lunatic fringe of drug thinking.
In conjunction with the new Transformers movie opening later this year, takara have released an iPod dock and speaker system shaped as a Transformer.
Convoy is presented in an entirely white iPod color scheme and fully functional iPod Docking Bay with Speakers. This product is fully licensed by Apple. The trailer holds two speakers and all standard size iPods will mount in the center of the trailer to play your favorite tunes.
A consumer watchdog in Norway has deemed iTunes illegal because it doesn’t allow music downmloaded from it to be played on anything else except the iPod.
The decision is the first time any jurisdiction has concluded iTunes breaks its consumer protection laws and could prompt other European countries to review the situation. Torgeir Waterhouse, senior adviser to the Norwegian Consumer Council, who originally launched the complaint, told the Financial Times he was in negotiations with pan-European consumer groups to present a unified position on iTunes’ legality.
“We are satisfied the Federation of German Consumer Organisations and the French UFC Que Choisir are addressing this important issue. It means that iTunes is now being told by more than 100m European consumers to offer them a fair deal,” he said.
Apple didn’t immediatley respond but have said they will be reviewing the situation to make it more clear in its marketing.
A display case containing 42 4gb iPod Nano’s has been stolen from the Apple Store in Colorado USA. The ipods were taken from the display case set up the previous night.
The display case was missing from a table about 10 feet inside the front door, which weighed about 30 pounds, contained 42 of the new 4-gigabyte iPod nanos. All the iPods came with serial numbers but none were recorded before the theft.
According to a leaked internal Apple memo, the iPhone will be releases in the UK in October.
This is great news for anyone waiting for the latest ipod, as at first it was belived the iPhone would be released for Christmas 2007.
The latest release from Apple was much hyped and is due for release in the US in June. It comes in 2 sizes a 4GB ($499) and a 8GB ($599) version. As yet there are no UK prices.