The wait is over. After months and months of waiting, the iPhone MMS release date has arrived.
The much-awaited anticipated update, which AT&T managed to deliver on-time, is currently available via iTunes for most AT&T users.  Just connect your phone, install the update, and reboot your phone.
It will be interesting to see how [...]

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Have you noticed the new “Listen” buttons under the post titles here on Blippitt?  We’ve just turned the blog into a podcast using Odiogo.
That’s right, you can now turn your blog into a living, breathing podcast.
Odiogo takes your RSS feed and turns it into audio content.  The results are surprisingly good.  This is not some [...]

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Has Amazon’s time finally come?  Perhaps.
The iTunes library now seems to be priced higher and it’s hard to know what their rhyme or reason for it is.  Many songs in the top 10 at iTunes are selling for $1.29 while those same songs are selling on Amazon MP3 for just$0.99.
Nine of the songs in Amazon’s [...]

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It seems to be a day full of glitches.  First Google, now iTunes.
iTunes’ credit servers seem to be experiencing a crash.  Many users are getting the message “iTunes Store Credit Unavailable”.
Looks like all of the credit processing in the iTunes store, credit cards included, are down.
Twitter Search currently shows tons of people having this issue [...]

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Now you see them, now you don’t. Apple has changed their minds on allowing breasts onto the iPhone.
Last month, an app that allowed you to see it wiggle and watch it jiggle (NSFW) was banned.  Then, a few weeks later, an application called Wobble made it into the App Store using a [...]

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Here are some interesting facts and figures from Macworld…other than the big news of course, which was that iTunes announced a price change and that copyright protection was removed.
The other interesting items?…
* iTunes has now sold six billion songs (it crossed the 5 billion mark last June).
* Over 10 million different tracks are [...]

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Apple announced an iTunes price change today, stating that songs on its popular music service will now cost between 69 cents and $1.29, and will also not be restricted by copy-protection.
Apple had previously charged $0.99 for most songs in their catalog, with copy-protection software automatically attached. The iTunes price change will take place [...]

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It only took 20 seasons, but The Simpsons finally landed on iTunes last night.
Right now, you can only get the 20th season. It’s not in hi-def either, but it’s progress.  Maybe eventually we’ll get all 20 seasons available…even though that would clock in at over 50 gigabytes of space.
“Marge, beer me.”…

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Hoping to remedy New York’s $15 billion budget nightmare, New York Governor David Paterson has proposed a tax on music and other online downloads.
The New York Daily News points out that, in order to download online content from iTunes, users must create an account with a billing address so these [...]

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