Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 250 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. Apple says iTunes users are now downloading one and a quarter million songs per day, which is an annual run rate of almost half a billion songs per year. In addition, the iTunes Music Store is now available in fifteen countries, which together represent more than 70 percent of the global music market.
Read MoreFirewireDirect.com today introduced the Pro Z-RAID, a high-performance external raid storage solution ideal for audio and video editing, graphic design, image/music archiving, sharing files, and high-speed data backups. The Pro Z-RAID offers 7200rpm drives with up to 16Mb of high speed cache, dual / silent fan design, a compact aluminum enclosure, and is available in capacities from 320GB to 1TB.
Read MoreZultys Technologies today announced the availability of MXIE to run on Macintosh and Linux operating systems. MXIE (Media Exchange Interface for End Users) is a desktop application used in conjunction with the MX250 IP PBX, and is an integral part of the solution to provide converged features and functions that go beyond basic telephony.
Read MoreGibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz unveiled a digital guitar at the NAMM show in Anaheim, CA, reports MacCentral. The new guitar, which carries the Les Paul name and style, will feature a 1/4-inch plug and an Ethernet port. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Juszkiewicz in the story. “What this technology allows is just enormous — very powerful things are going to happen. This is not just a guitar, it’s a platform.”
Read MoreRobert X. Cringley, author and technology writer for PBS, speculates that the Mac mini and Apple’s forthcoming H.264 video codec will be key elements in an Apple movie download service. “It is simple to say that Apple hopes to repeat with video the success it already has with iPod and iTunes. Jobs denies interest in video, citing the dominance of cable companies, but then he always denies right up until the moment he changes his mind, and that moment is coming…
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