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Having conquered music and video downloads, Apple Computer is apparently setting its sites on full-length films.

The Disney-produced "High School Musical," a 90-minute, made-for-TV production was recently made available for $9.99 on Apple's iTunes.

A move into films by Apple has been anticipated since the company started selling videos last October. After Apple CEO Steve Jobs became a Disney board member in January, a joint venture to offer films over iTunes almost seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Industry insiders said they could imagine a day when "Snow White" or "Dumbo" would make … Read more

Apple Computer said on Tuesday that it will make available condensed versions of all 63 men's NCAA basketball tournament games.

Apple will sell them for $1.99 each or $19.99 for a "season pass" for all the games. CBS has previously announced plans to show many of the games for free over the Internet.

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AUSTIN, Texas--Everyone who goes to South by Southwest knows that it's the coolest conference there is.

That's what they tell each other, that is, given its unmatched collection of hip bloggers, rocking parties that go late into the night, and general sense that what's going on here and the people at SXSW are at the true cutting edge of interactive technology.

And that's before you even talk about the film part of the conference, which draws its own celebrities--Kris Krisofferson, John Sayles and others.

But the topper, the very proof that SXSW is the pinnacle of … Read more

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We've mentioned Iconz iPod cases before, but thought this limited edition video iPod case warranted another mention, especially given our readers Star Wars inclinations.

The "Star Wars Rocks" case sells for $29.95 and features artwork by Hugh Fleming that was originally made for a fan club poster in the 1990s.

American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu is raising his March quarter estimates for Apple Computer due to better than expected demand for iPods, which he says is driven by Shuffle price cuts and the introduction of the lower-priced 1GB Nano.

In a March 10 report, he also notes that the new iPod Hi-Fi speaker system is "seeing strong initial sales and video iPod demand continues to be strong, well above seasonal trends and down modestly from very high December quarter levels."

For the March quarter, his new estimates are $4.43 billion, 43 cents and 8.8 million … Read more

Various San Francisco-based news outlets reported this week that police identified an unconscious jogger, who was an apparent hit-run-victim, by contacting Apple Computer and getting information from the iPod she was carrying.

The 27-year-old woman was jogging early Thursday morning near the Presidio when she was apparently struck and thrown off the side of the road, according to news reports.

Apple declined to comment on or even confirm the story Friday, but NBC11 and others reported that the woman was carrying no identification, so investigators took her iPod to the Apple store, which contacted headquarters. Apple helped identify the woman, … Read more

Apple doesn't seem to be the first company you'd think of if you were looking for Republican lawyers well versed in redrawing congressional districts, but the job market makes for novel combinations.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker now employs Joby Fortson, a former aide to Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, according to the New Yorker Magazine. In 2003, DeLay helped push through a state bill that redrew the congressional districts in the state. The plan helped add Republicans to the House of Representatives.

Fortson wrote a memo at the time, according to the magazine, that outlined … Read more

When Apple announced the first Intel Macs in January, it promised in ads that the Intel chips were finally freed from residing in "dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks."

But when the ad got around to the UK, Apple apparently dropped the word "dull," according to a report on British tech site The Register.

In the British version, Intel chips were "dutifully doing all the things PCs were built to do," but there was no overt mention of dullness in describing the duties. Apple did not give a reason for the switch, … Read more