As streaming prices rise, Hollywood seeks to revive failed anti-piracy law
Dramatically rising streaming prices have lead to an increase in video piracy, and major Hollywood studios are now asking Congress…
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Quibi launches with YouTube-style content from big names; 90-day free trial
Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, Quibi’s pitch would have been simple: short-form videos from big names to watch on your…
DisneyLife will offer classic Disney + Pixar films, TV, music, books for £10/month, Star Wars and Marvel next
Hinting at the sea change that will come to the television and movie industries after the launch of the fourth-generation…
Apple reportedly moving forward w/ streaming TV service deals, aiming for late fall debut
Apple’s talks with networks for its upcoming streaming TV cable service are well underway, according to the New York Post. The four…
NBC plans cable-dependent Apple TV app for second half of 2015
Despite reports that NBC Universal is not involved in negotiations for Apple’s upcoming subscription TV replacement service, NBC still hopes to arrive on the…
The latest stores and apps to accept Apple Pay (Running list)
Update: Visit Apple.com/ApplePay for the latest information on where to use Apple Pay in stores, and featured Apple Pay apps for…
Kindle Fire now over half of Android tablet market, as Amazon reports blowout earnings
It is apparent over the last few months that Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire has been making rapid gains in Android…
NBC Universal resists Apple's 99c TV plan, champions Samsung Tab…
Apple’s attempt at 99-cent TV show rentals is off to a choppy start, with NBC Universal chief exec Jeff Zucker…
Warner Bros. CEO: Apple's $0.99 show rentals "would have hurt sales of full seasons"
If you’re wondering why Warner Brothers didn’t join up with Apple for the 99 cent iTunes TV show rentals, WB…
Is Rupert Murdoch kingmaker for Apple's 99-cent TV plan?
Apple’s TV plans continue to split the broadcast industry, at least in the US where any such service is most…
Apple readies iTunes movie sales for UK, Canada
Apple is preparing to announce film download and rental services through iTunes in the UK and Canada.
The company is understood to have reached deals with Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Lions Gate and MGM under which iTunes in both named countries will begin offering popular films for purchase and rental using Apple’s service. The move is likely to help boost Apple TV sales, and to improve the utility of iPod and iPhones.
Apple retail: expect breakout sales for '08
Half-way through the financial year, Apple’s retail stores seem set to create new sales records as other high street retailers face falling sales and the credit crunch.
Apple launched its first Apple retail stores in May, 2001, entering the high street market in the same year Gateway began to divest itself of its own-brand retail shops.
Around the Web – April 23
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Apple’s PA Semi acquisition is the biggest news since the Intel switch, take a look at what our team’s dug up around the site. We expect more revelations during the company’s financial results call tonight. Despite the importance of Apple’s big news, the Mac news web is on fire this morning, read on…
Apple hire hints at strategic acquisitions
Apple may be preparing to engage in a significant strategic acquisition, at least that’s what’s suggested by the company’s move to hire HP’s leading legal corporate buyout specialist, Charles Charnas.
Bear with us. We understand that recruitment isn’t necessarily the most engaging story, but let’s take a quick look at this.
Firstly, Apple has hired Charnas to lead its corporate department, filling a role that hasn’t been occupied for seven years. In his new post, Charnas will oversee Apple’s intellectual property and strategic acquisitions.
We accept that Apple’s IP effort may need an extra hand as the company files patent after patent in order to secure and develop its iPhone.
iTunes movies for Australia, New Zealand
iTunes users in Australia and New Zealand can now select from over 700 films for purchase and rental through the service.
Apple has made movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are available through iTunes in Australia and in New Zealand.
New release titles are available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release, including favorites such as “National Treasure 2,” “Jumper,” “27 Dresses,” “Cloverfield,” “Vantage Point” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” Over 100 titles are available in high definition.
HSBC considers 200,000 iPhone order…
Apple’s iPhone is taking a slice of the enterprise market, with news that huge multi-national banking giant HSBC is considering deploying maybe 200,000 of the Apple devices across its global workforce.
The move would be a slap across the face for the bank’s current mobile supplier, RIM, which supplies BlackBerry handsets to HSBC, ZDNet Australia informs.
"’We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective … and when I say that, I mean globally,’ HSBC’s Australia and New Zealand chief information officer Brenton Hush reportedly said
NY Post raises pre-financials Steve Jobs health scare
The New York Post has set out more concern this morning at the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Market manipulation? You be the judge. Apple’s stock is significantly down on the news.
Apple will reveal its quarterly results during a conference call this afternoon at 2pm (PDT), but, according to the report, people meeting him in recent weeks appear concerned at his "thin appearance". "Apple’s hedge fund investors are very worried," a Wall Street source who has spoken with some of the company’s stakeholders told the newspaper.
Concerns at the health of the Apple co-founder emerged last month after a thinner-looking Jobs took to the stage at WWDC to introduce the iPhone 3G. Responding to these concerns, Apple later said Jobs had been suffering from a "common bug", from which he was expected to make a full recovery, blaming his weight loss on the antibiotics he had to take.
IDC analyst confirms enterprise users are switching to Mac
Apple’s more popular than ever with enterprise users, claimed IDC analyst, Michael Rose, this week.
Explaining the growing popularity of the Mac, he said: “As we’ve seen with consumers, small and medium businesses (SMBs) as well as large organizations are starting to consider the possibility of deploying more Macs within their corporate environment."
Why’s this happening? Well, we know it’s down to the iPod halo, the iPhone halo, the Mac halo, the OS X halo and the sheer media love-in surrounding Steve Jobs. We also know it’s because of the vexations of Vista, the lack of interest in any but the high-budget Windows machines, and finally, well, let’s just say it’s the software, stupid…
Disney consults Steve Jobs on retail store overhaul
What happens when your company’s largest single individual shareholder has a seat on the board and has already succeeded in building one of America’s most successful retail chains? You get them to help you improve your struggling network of shops, that’s what – and this is precisely what’s going on in Disney retail, where Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been drafted in to advise on how to improve that cartoon capers shopping chain.
Now, other than noting that even when resting this proves Jobs just isn’t the type to ever let himself get bored, but Disney engaged in heavy consultation with the Apple boss as the company worked to completely redesign the image of its stores, reports the New York Times (via: Gizmodo).
Apple tablet will revolutionise eBook publishing
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again, Apple has big plans for eBooks and its future Apple tablet will help kickstart yet another change in publishing, just as the Mac helped launch the notion of desktop publishing.
Apple is reportedly engaged in extremely high level talks with senior executives from across the publishing industry with a view to making eBooks available to the tablet, and while these may start as the kind of text-based publications you’d find on a Kindle, these will advance to become true multimedia content delivery vehicles.
Perhaps a sign of what’s to come is visible in iTunes Extras/LP. These combine multiple assets and can be purchased from iTunes. They are designed to replicate the DVD or album experience, and while the jury’s out on their success in that, they clearly offer opportunities for the creation and distribution of engaging content.
Apple Getting Set to Light Up the Movie Rental and Cable Industries
Apple, this week, let slip another clue in its ambitious plans to become the premiere delivery mechanism for digital content to the content-hungry world. iTunes Movie rental service, no longer a technical hurdle with the AppleTV sitting in store shelves consumer entertainment centers, is most likely being held up by lawyers, negotiators and studio executives who are undoubtedly wary of selling away the distribution part of the home entertainment value chain that they possess.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer will hit iTunes trailer site tomorrow [Update: online]
[tweet https://twitter.com/starwars/status/537726713753382913] Lucasfim is such a tease. After initially saying that the trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens would…
iTunes movie rentals coming at Macworld, 20th Century Fox 1st confirmed
Valleywag points us to the Financial Times who is outing Apple (try shutting them down!!) and 20th Century Fox’s love affair on the home movie front. They are the first outted studio to offer movie rentals – most likely to be announced at Macworld. Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros. and, of course, Disney are expected to be announced at the event but others including internationals should follow.
Facebook, Adobe, Disney, Sony — Apple takeover rumors ignite
I’m taking this with a pinch of salt at this time, but speculation that Apple may be on the verge…
