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Apple
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful [...]

Business Week
Sources familiar with the company’s plans tell BusinessWeek.com that Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device. Few details are known, but sources say an announcement will come in January, which suggests it may be slated [...]

So today not only I get a new version of textexpander we learn that indeed Apple’s Leopard operating system will be available on October 26th for $129. Over at the iTunes Store it seems they have added some indies to iTunes Plus (DRM free) and dropped the single track price from 1.29 to 99 [...]

BBC NEWS
The digital world has finally caught up with the humble audio cassette as electrical retailer Currys announced it will stop stocking them.
Last year Currys sold just 100,000 tapes compared with 83 million in 1989.
OK …… it’s 2007 and they just figured out the cassette was dead.

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BBC NEWS
Apple sold more than 10.5 million iPods in the first three months of 2007, helping the US technology firm to record an 88% increase in profits.
Profits rose to $770m (£384m) from $410m for the same period last year.
I can’t believe the strength of iPod sales. Some fad …… huh!

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Circuit City and Napster are teaming up to offer an online music service. Subscriptions are $14.95 and individual tracks will go for $.99. The new service will have some exclusive tracks not available to Napster users. Nothing to get excited about, it just more of the same from the non-iTunes world.

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The New York Times has an review (they like it) of a vacuum tubed beauty the Cocoon MC4 iPod dock. It comes from Roth Audio out of England and they are not cheap. It’s $649 for the Cocoon MC4, but it’s a small price to pay to be the coolest cat in the neighborhood.

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MacNN
Washingtonpost.com today began offering high-definition (HD) podcasts designed for viewing on HD TVs and the Apple TV via the iTunes Store. Washingtonpost.com is the first news organization to conform to the highest specifications for the new Apple TV by offering its documentary videos online in a format that is optimally viewable on Apple’s set top [...]

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a post on AAC, it’s definitely worth the time to read it. You Apple conspiracy theorist out there may be disappointed though.
MP3 is ubiquitous, yes, but it is not a free standard. The rights to MP3 in most countries, including the U.S., are held by Thomson Consumer Electronics, and [...]

Apple Apple® today announced that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold
Nice.

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WSJ.com
A new wireless MP3 player called the Sansa Connect — the result of a three-way collaboration among Yahoo, MP3 player and storage device maker SanDisk Corp. and technology start-up Zing Systems Inc. — hit store shelves on Friday. The $250 device, crafted to work closely with Yahoo’s Internet music and other online services, has a [...]

BusinessWeek
Online music stores, like Napster, Yahoo Music, URGE, and all the others that sell WMA songs will be forced to consider jumping into the DRM-free AAC camp, and thus become “iPod compatible,” and in so doing become competitors of iTunes. Apple will be fine with this, because in its range of priorities, anything that sells [...]

IHT “But there are times whan an iPod simply cannot compete with the rich, complex tones of a vintage tabletop radio.”

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According to Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press the re-mastered Beatles albums will be made available first on all the digital download services, not just iTunes and not initially on CD. He says that Apple will have an exclusive with a Beatles iPod, these will be pre-loaded iPods that will have one Beatles album [...]

MacMinute News
According to travel site Cheapflights, Apple is working with several airlines to allow passengers to use iPod seat connections which power and charge their iPods, as well as allowing video content to be displayed on seat-back screens. Airlines expected to incorporate the system in mid-2007 include Air France, Emirates, United, US airlines, Continental, Delta, [...]

Over at Foxnews.com Roger Friedman is reporting that when the Beatles come to music download services they will be available to all of them at once. So it looks like that iTunes will not have exclusive initially as has been previously reported. Friedman also reports that “sources” told him that Beatles may be getting [...]

CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr of Warner Music in a earnings conference call said he was an “advocate the continued use of DRM in the protection of our and our artists’ intellectual property.” He goes on to say “the notion that music does not deserve the same protections as software, television, films, video [...]

MacNN talks to Senior advisor Torgeir Waterhouse of the Norwegian Consumer Council who earlier this year ruled that Apple’s DRM lock on its iPod and ITunes was illegal. Waterhouse basically says in response to Jobs open letter – I’m glad you saw the light, but your still on the hook. Which in Steve Job’s [...]

In what is clearly a shot across the bow of the music companies Steve jobs in an open letter today came out for the aboltion of DRM on digital music downloads. No matter what people around the web may say is his motivation is, the fact of the matter is that CEO of the company [...]

If you following Apple you know they are have announcement tomorrow. Most people seem to think they will announce a movie download store. Which I also think they will. The question is what other goodies will they announce? Having given it five minutes of thought while watching Monday Night football I think they will announce [...]