News Archive for 05/09/14

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Coldplay iTunes

09/14, 2:35pm

Coldplay releases iTunes-exclusive for Katrina relief

Coldplay has released on iTunes Fix You, a digital EP that includes two songs previously unreleased in the U.S. The $3 collection includes the two new songs, as well as two versions of “Fix You,” the band’s new single from the double Platinum album "X&Y." Include are both the album version, and a live rendition recorded this summer in Arnhem, Holland. Coldplay, BMG Publishing, Capitol Records/EMI and Apple will donate 100 percent of their share of the proceeds of all US sales of this digital EP to the American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund. The Fix You EP was planned for digital release in the US next week and in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Coldplay, Capitol and Apple moved up the release date.

Think Different Store

09/14, 12:55pm

Think Different Store to open on Long Island

The Think Different Store has announced the opening of its first 1-800-ipod.com retail location. Scheduled to open Saturday, Sept 24 at 10 a.m, the store is located in Long Island, New York at 280 Middle Country Road in Selden. The company will giveaway over $1000 in iPod- and Mac- related merchandise (including an iPod nano) during the celebration, and local radio station WBLI will be appearing live from the grand opening. The store covers 3000 square feet of prime retail space along a major thoroughfare in Suffolk County, featuring a wide range of accessories and enhancements for Macs and iPods.

Nine Speck Nano cases

09/14, 12:10pm

Speck debuts nine iPod nano cases

Speck Products today announced nine new cases for the iPod nano in a wide variety of styles. The SkinTight Deluxe skins ($25) in clear or black, rubberized SkinTight skins ($20), "Cloudy" FunSkins ($35), "Grass" green FunSkins ($35), ToughSkins (shown at right) with "rugged good looks" ($35) in clear or black, iGuy poseable skins ($35) in white only, Nano Armband ($30) in clear only, Connect and Protect ($35) with accessories in clear only, and the See-Thru 3-pack ($30) including pink/blue/clear cases will be available in October.

iTunes 5 video store?

09/14, 11:55am

iTunes 5 hints at forthcoming video store from Apple

Bloggers have discovered an image resource within iTunes 5 that suggests Apple has future plans for a video store, according to BetaNews. Three buttons with the terms "Gift Video," "Buy Video," and "Add Video" were found along with references to a "protected MPEG-4 video file" within text strings in the code of iTunes 5. There has been wide speculation about the possibility of an Apple video store, as well as an iPod with video capabilities. Although a video iPod seems unlikely in the timeframe previously rumored, many still expect that Apple will eventually announce such an offering.