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Apple rumored to be working on complete iTunes Store and App Store redesign

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Feb 20, 2012 a 10:59 pm

Apple is reportedly planning a redesign for the iTunes Store and App Store for sometime later this year.

Apple Begins Countdown to 25 billion App Downloads

By George Lim, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 a 12:55 pm

The App Store has been around for nearly 4 years, and it is approaching 25 billion downloads. (That's 25,000,000,000!)

To celebrate, Apple is doing a countdown and giving away a US$10,000 (or equivalent) iTunes gift card to the person who downloads the 25 billionth app.

iTunes live-streaming free Paul McCartney concert on February 9, 2012

By Chris Parsons, Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 a 1:58 am

Apple is helping celebrate the release of Kisses On The Bottom, which came out Tuesday, February 7, with a free live-streaming Paul McCartney concert on February. 8, 2012. The event is being held at Capital Studios in Los Angeles and will be available to one and all via iTune.

Apple removes copy-cat apps from the App Store, doesn't address larger issues

By Andrew Wray, Saturday, Feb 4, 2012 a 11:32 am

Apple has removed a number of copy-cat apps from the App Store, specifically plagiaristic titles such as Tiny Birds, Temple Jump and Numbers With Friends ~~created~~ replicated by developer Anton Sinelnikov. Apple has made similar moves against shady developers in the past, taking down 1,000 apps from Molinker after they noticed fake 5-star reviews in the App Store.

Apple investigating iTunes Match bug that replaces explicit music with clean version

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 a 8:45 pm

Apple is reportedly investing a bug in iTunes Match that replaces music containing explicit lyrics with "clean" versions from the iTunes Store. Cult of Mac had this to say about the bug:

iTunes Match had successfully filtered out all the profane and derogatory words by changing the tracks to clean versions of the albums, which pretty much ruined my jog because I was really really wanting to sing along and drop 50 “F-bombs” a minute. Maybe this is just a rare glitch in iTunes Match’s system, but it’s a travesty tantamount to treason in my eyes and I want it fixed.

Neil Young claims Steve Jobs preferred listening to music on vinyl

By chrissyboy6969, Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 a 5:20 am

Canadian musician Neil Young has claimed in an interview that Steve Jobs preferred listening to music played back on vinyl rather than digitally via an iPod. Speaking to Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg at the D: Dive Into Media conference, he told them that he discussed the prospect of offering higher quality digital music downloads with Steve Jobs.

Apple education event now available via streaming, iTunes download

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 a 4:03 pm

Apple has posted the full education event keynote video on its website and placed it on iTunes for download.

iTunes 10.5.3 released, includes support for syncing iBooks textbooks

By Chris Parsons, Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 a 12:46 pm

Following their education event held in New York where iBooks 2 and textbooks were announced, Apple has gone ahead and released iTunes 10.5.3 to the masses.

iTunes Match now available in 19 more countries, brings total number of supported countries to 37

By Chris Parsons, Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012 a 1:16 am

Apple’s iTunes Match service has now expanded to a total of 37 countries. The service initially launched in the United States in November of last year and has slowly rolled out to various countries internationally since then.

Apple adds new iTunes info pop-up tabs... that look just like Android Market

By Jared DiPane, Monday, Jan 16, 2012 a 4:19 pm

Apple has snuck a couple of new features into their apps pages in iTunes, specifically an information popup with tabbed content remarkably similar to how Google presents Android Market details. We know that in the past Android has been accused of copying Apple, but like Notification Center this time it looks like Apple is the one caught with their fingers in the copy jar.