The marketing force behind Presidential US election candidate Barack Obama recently showed us they leave no stone unturned when pushing their advertising campaign. With just 30 days left to election day, Obama now has an iPhone application.
Is the Queen next? – or maybe it’ll be Gordon Brown? … (more…)
You may know Arnold Kim (Arn), but if you don’t he’s most notably responsible for running Mac Rumors.com – the very successful rumor-based site relating to all things Apple. Earlier this year, to our surprise, Kim announced he’d quit his job as a physician, with the intention to run and manage Mac Rumors full time. He’s now said to be focusing on other interesting, helpful web projects, one of which is App Shopper … (more…)
With the introduction of iTunes 7.7, Apple announced their iPhone ringtone service which consisted of you paying an extra 99 cents on top of the 99 cents it cost you originally to buy the full song. For that, you could pick your own section of an iTunes song you already own to serve as your ringtone. The idea being, for $1.99, you got both. Both a 40 second ringtone and the full track to listen to … (more…)
The National Music Publishers’ Association has requested an increase in royalty rates for music-related items downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. If passed, the increased rates will force Apple to consider even continuing to run iTunes as a music distribution center.
Apple have stated they only continue to keep iTunes available to it’s user base because it is profitable, and running it without profiting, is not an option … (more…)
Yesterday, the popular multi-network IM service, Beejive, released it’s native iPhone application. I picked it up after the sheer disaster I encountered with Mobile Chat 3. Probably the first impression most people will get from it, is that it’s quite a bit more expensive than it’s competition at £9.49, and you’d be right. Having looked beyond the price though, this application is very well designed and could actually become one of, if not the IM client for iPhone … (more…)