Apple’s iTunes Radio is a great way for the company’s customers to listen to free music, and now the service is expanding its selection with a new 24/7 NPR channel. The new channel mixes live news updates with pre-recorded episodes of popular NPR shows.
Apple’s iTunes Radio service – which provides free ad-supported streaming music via iOS, Apple TV, and iTunes – has surpassed Spotify to become the third-most popular music streaming service in the United States.
Apple on Monday announced the expansion of its iTunes Radio service to Australia. Available for free with ads or ad-free with a AU$35 per year iTunes Match subscription, the expansion is the first outside of the U.S., with sources indicating that the U.K., Canada, and New Zealand are not far behind.
The Internet Radio market is about to get a whole lot more interesting next month with the launch of Apple’s iTunes Radio service, and Pandora is taking preemptive action to keep its users happy by lifting the 40-hour listening limit for free accounts that was first imposed in February.
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The terms between Apple and the record labels for the iTunes Radio streaming music service were revealed by The Wall Street Journal late Wednesday. The report includes information on the amounts Apple must pay along with special circumstances that are exempt from payment. The newspaper reportedly obtained the information from independent record labels, which have recently begun talks with Apple to join iTunes Radio after the Cupertino company had already secured the major labels prior to WWDC. The Wall Street…
At Apple’s WWDC keynote today in San Francisco, the company unveiled a number of new products and services including major updates to OS X, iOS, and Mac hardware. Here’s an overview of the major announcements. OS X 10.9 Mavericks In a surprising move, Apple abandoned the cat naming convention for its next line of desktop operating systems, instead choosing to focus on iconic locations in California. For 10.9, the company chose to highlight Mavericks, a popular surfing location outside of…