Apple Launches DRM-free Music and Kickstarts the AppleTV

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Today, also at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference, Steve Jobs led us on a magical journey of New Balance shoes and black turtle-neck shirts. Steve announced in a sit down interview about the iTunes Plus store and the upgrades to the AppleTV. Firstly, Steve pointed out the addition to the iTunes store, iTunes Plus. The newly added DRM-free music is $1.29 a download and your preexisting music that is now available for DRM-free can be upgraded with a 30 cent rate per song. Secondly, Steve talked about AppleTV’s new pal, YouTube. Start mid-June with an update you will now be able to go on YouTube with the AppleTV. So now you can broadcast yourself over your AppleTV. Also starting tomorrow, May 31st, there will be a new AppleTV option. Now you will be able to choose form the 40Gb version for $299, or the 160Gb version for $399. That is 4x the hard disk space for just $100. -Evan Doyle

Microsoft’s Surface Computer

Today at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference (D stands for Digital). Microsoft unveiled their very new and very interesting surface computer. I believe that this is a major step forward in the advancement of the User Interface. To fully understand this prototype you just need to watch this 18 minute video that is all about the Surface Computer. I know it is 18 minutes, but when i saw that i thought the same thing as you “I’m going to fall asleep.” Amazingly this product interested me so much i had to find out even more about it AFTER the 18 minute video. the most surprising thing about this product is that we will be seeing ‘them’ in retail stores, restaurants, casinos, and resorts by the end of ‘07. -Evan Doyle

Apple Store is Down

First off I would like to say sorry because I have not been posting very much lately, but I am back, and after finals in a week or so I will be posting at full potential. Buckle-up.

It is now 6:58AM EST and the Apple Store is down, New Macbooks? Chips? LED Backlit screens?

Until the store comes back up here is the new iTunes+iPod ad.

Yay! New Macbooks 2.16Ghz! 200Gb HDD! 1099$! -Evan Doyle