Year: 2010

The Dept. of Justice’s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, according to “The New York Post” (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_probe_grows_eC2Xojek2kBNijBO2uP1kJ), quoting “several,” anonymous sources.

Australians bought an estimated 30,000 iPads Friday as the product went on sale nationwide, according to the “Daily Telegraph.” A further 20,000 of the tablet computers are expected to be sold this weekend, the newspaper adds.

In Sydney, the first iPads were sold to the more than 300 customers who camped out overnight in the cold outside the flagship George St store. By comparison, Apple sold more than 500,000 iPads in the first week of release in the US and a million after 28 days.

Microsoft and Apple are in long-term talks about adding the Bing search service as a prominent option on the iPhone and not as a replacement of Google as has been rumored, according to”All Things D” (http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100528/microsoft-talking-to-apple-about-being-a-search-option-on-the-iphone-not-google-replacement/?mod=ATD_rss).

Seeking information on possible price fixing in the digital music marketplace, the U.S. Department of Justice contacted the legal departments of the major record labels as part of an initial inquiry into Apple, sources have told “Billboard” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100529/media_nm/us_apple), a music industry trade publication. The DOJ also spoke with a number of digital music services, the article adds.