Apple said today that 1.5 million songs were downloaded from the iTunes Music Store during the same period that Napster reported selling 300,000 songs. More than 17 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it launched in April.
Read MoreRoxio has released Toast 6.0.3, an update to the company’s popular CD and DVD burning software.
The new version offers language support for French, German, Italian and Japanese; a summary of number of items and playback duration in Video format; a Menu item to Duplicate videos or slideshows in Video format; Audio Master Quality Recording support for Yamaha recorders; a Buffer Underrun Prevention option for combo DVD+R/RW and -R/RW recorders; and other enhancements.
Apple held its annual meeting with analysts and investors at its Cupertino, CA campus on Wednesday. Several Apple executives spoke at the gathering, including Steve Jobs, CEO; Phil Schiller, senior VP of worldwide product marketing; Fred Anderson, CFO; Tim Cook, executive VP of worldwide sales and operations; and Ron Johnson, senior VP of retail.
Read MoreMcDonald’s has responded to a published report that it plans a massive digital song giveaway promotion with Apple, calling it “pure speculation.” Today’s New York Post claims that McDonald’s is close to announcing a deal with Apple, whereby the fast food giant will give away up to 1 billion songs from the iTunes Music Store. “There are no agreements to announce, so anything else is pure speculation,” the company said.
Read MoreSig Software has released Classic Menu 2.7.2, a new version of its user interface enhancement for Mac OS X. The US$10 software brings the classic configurable Mac OS Apple Menu back to Mac OS X, replacing the system’s built-in Apple Menu. Version 2.7.2 is a maintenance update that adds full compatibility with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
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