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Clear Channel, Apple iTunes expand digital station relationship
Author: admin8 Apr
Clear Channel Radio has begun broadcasting on more than 340 high-definition digital stations with the capability of purchasing a song heard on the radio and downloading it onto an Apple iPod.
Clear Channel Radio listeners are able to capture their favorite songs through an interface with Apple iTunes technology. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is based in Cupertino, Calif.
“Radio continues to be the No. 1 way that people discover new music, and the HD Radio iTunes tagging capability lets listeners add songs to their iPod playlists with just a push of the button,” Clear Channel Radio President and CEO John Hogan says.
“With the vast majority of our HD primary stations now offering this exciting feature, we’re demonstrating how radio’s collaboration with the iPod benefits consumers,” he adds.
Clear Channel Radio first announced last September its intention of offering broadcasts compatible with Apple’s HD Radio tagging feature. Since then, the company has worked to grow the number of participating stations with this iTunes feature.
Where are all the iPhones?
Author: admin8 Apr
Where are all the iPhones? Apple sold 3.6 million of its hit mobile phones last year, but its official partners only registered 2.3 million new customers. Meanwhile, many of its US retail stores are having trouble keeping the hit handsets on shelves. In Manhattan, for example, daily shipments are sold out before it’s time for a second cup of coffee. Apple is tight-lipped, but the two stories could be related.
The iPhone is usually tied to a single phone network in each country. In the US, software locks users into AT&T’s network. Similar agreements exist in France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. In exchange for this exclusivity, Apple gets a cut of users’ monthly fees. The problem, at least from Apple’s point of view, is that the software can be relatively easily tweaked to allow the phones to run on other operators’ GSM networks.
China Mobile, one of two mobile operators in China, doesn’t have any deal with Apple but still reckons there were 400,000 iPhones on its network at the end of 2007. That number is probably much higher now. Those phones must have been bought somewhere.
That’s where the stories come together. The fact is that iPhone smuggling has become a lucrative, if legally questionable, way for travelling students and flight attendants to earn a bit of extra cash. An iPhone costs $US499 plus tax in the US – call it $US550. Unlock it, for $US50 or less, and you can sell the same phone for the equivalent of $US900 or so in Europe. The more the dollar falls, the more attractive this arbitrage.
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that iPhones, unavailable in Apple’s Manhattan stores, are in stock in Buffalo. Manhattan is full of tourists armed with strong euros, roubles and Brazilian reais. Few of them visit post-industrial cities in upstate New York.
Of course, there could be other explanations. Apple could be clearing the decks for a more advanced version of the iPhone. Or it could have simply misjudged demand or run into parts shortages. Listen to the babel of languages in Apple’s New York City stores, though, and it’s easy to imagine the missing phones in suitcases flying overseas.
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