More than a week after the release of iTunes 7, Apple has started to address the problems reported by hundreds of users. Problems such as audio distortion and song skipping were just some of the complaints streaming into Apple discussion boards following the 12 September release of the latest version…

With Sony in damage control over their massive battery recall regarding Dell and Apple notebooks, another report of a notebook catching on fire is doing the rounds. Apparently, an IBM Thinkpad notebook user was seen throwing down his notebook at LAX, with numerous onlookers reporting that the notebook instantly caught…

Microsoft is touting the ability to share music through wireless connectivity as a key element for its new “Zune” portable media player to win over consumers from Apple’s market-leading iPod. The world’s largest software maker said it will launch a 30-gigabyte Zune and an iTunes competitor called the Zune Marketplace…

Microsoft’s challenge to Apple’s reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to “DJ” by wirelessly sharing music. Plans submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba provided a glimpse into the workings of an MP3 player designed by Microsoft. The device was…

…resurrects lost data. More than 4,200 software developers from 48 countries registered for the week-long Apple conference, according to the company. “With our entire digital lives on the computer, Time Machine is none too soon,” Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in an opening speech to a packed auditorium. “We…

Apple’s online music service, iTunes, remains number one in the online digital music sales but what ever happened to the pioneer of the online trend, Napster? Originally shut down in 2001 for the illegal sharing of pirated files, the company has been struggling since then to gain a foothold back…